GLASS: Looking for a bit of color in your life? The Corning Museum of Glass, always a place of beauty, will open a new exhibition May 10 — Brilliant Color.

The exhibition is the first of its kind to address the chromatic revolution that occurred in glass during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and will include more than 140 works from the Museum’s permanent collection and Rakow Research Library.

Brilliant Color will feature an array of dynamic artists from the Gilded Age to the present day, including Emile Gallé, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frederick Carder, Leo Moser, René Lalique, Klaus Moje, and many more. Through dynamic installations, including a largescale installation of colored glass objects arranged according to rainbow color order, the exhibition will explore the methods 19th and 20th century innovators pioneered to produce new colors in glass and decorative applications for the material.

Visitors will be able to further immerse themselves in the world of color with a special Make Your Own Glass project that will feature dichromatic glass encased in a flameworked pendant. Guests will work with Studio staff to melt glass rods in a torch to create their pendant. Projects must cool overnight and can be picked up the next day or shipped within the U.S. and Canada at no additional cost.

Ahead of the opening, CMoG will host self-described ‘mad scientist artist’ and author of The Universe in 100 Colors, Tyler Thrasher, for a Connected by Glass discussion and book signing event on April 17. As the creator of the world’s first opalized flower, Thrasher will inspire and delight audiences of all ages in a warm and wide-ranging conversation about his creative practice at the intersection of science and glass.