Friday Smiles 295: A trip to the Art Museum part 7

I will have to miss Friday Smiles next Friday, since I am hosting Second on the 2nd.  I will be back for Friday Smiles 297, though.

I'm so grateful to Annie our host at Friday Smiles because she has agreed to link me each week until I can get Mr. Linky working again.  Thank you Annie.  I appreciate you for taking time to do this.

As you are probably aware by now, I like to begin with a few funnies I found while cleaning my office late last year.  These things are like bunnies.  They seem to multiply while I sleep!

Here are a few headlines that got past the editors:

Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says

Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case

Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over

Include Your Children When Baking Cookies

Clinton Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead

Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told

Miners Refuse to Work After Death

Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant

Stolen Painting Found by Tree

Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years at Checkout Counter

I have more of these I'll share in two weeks.

Now back to the museum where I spent nearly six hours with two teens and a tween one day this past July.   If you were here last week, you saw some pretty gruesome posters and drawings.  I felt the children needed something to lighten the mood, and I knew just where to take them!

Imagine my surprise when we walked into this room specifically designed for children.

It was Saturday, the one day of the week the museum is free.  Where were all the children?

I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth, because I was SO tired of waiting for people to get out of my shots.

I laughed at this artist's interpretation of the Chihuly sculpture.  There were several of them around and the children pointed their differences out to me.

Then they saw the  image of the Eiffel Tower

and simply had to build one themselves.   There were photos, but the youngsters were all in them, so they were for family only.

To reach the next exhibit, we had to pass by this set of sculptures, which I have never understood.

There was no way to exit without setting off an alarm, so we stayed in, while I took photos through the extremely dirty glass.

It is called Dreamers Awake,

and this image grabbed off the WAM site shows the front of it and where we were standing when I took the photos above.  If you look directly above the double doors, you can see the Henry Moore statue, too.

Next up was the F. Price Cossman Gallery. 

Did you notice that CGW stands for Corning Glass Works?

Although I know absolutely NOTHING about glass, my friend Valerie has an extensive collection of her own incredible glass pieces.  From what I read, most of the pieces you see are from the Steuben Glass Works.  Steuben Glass Works was an American art glass manufacturer, founded by Frederick Carder and Thomas G. Hawkes in Corning, New York.  Many, if not most of the pieces here were designed by Carder.   Corning, the same as the glass by that name, is in Steuben County.  The Steuben company was named after this specific county, but has now been taken over by Corning Glass.

According to the Steuben web site:

For more than a century, Steuben has been internationally recognized as the benchmark of excellence in glass. The flawless brilliance of our material, renowned craftsmanship, and timeless design are without compare. Now, under the stewardship of The Corning Museum of Glass, the story of Steuben is once again available to be shared. Produced in small quantities, each item is hand-crafted to reflect the time and care committed to the achievement of elegance and quality.

I know my friend Erika has visited the Corning Glass Museum, so I wonder if she saw any Steuben glass while she was there.

Feel free to peruse these

at your convenience, as long as I get everything centered in the shot (grin).

These three pieces I did remember were designed by Carder either right before or right after he moved to the states.

I wish I'd paid closer attention to these plaques, but to be truthful, I was really getting tired.  I felt sure the youngsters would have been hungry by now, but they were still as enamored and enthusiastic as when we started out over five hours before.

I hope some of you enjoyed the glass.  Next time I'll try to wrap it up, although I may need two more weeks at this museum.

 Thanks for joining the children and me again at the museum and thanks for your continued visits and support.  Now let's visit Annie's Friday Smiles (at her blog A stitch in time), where it never hurts to begin the weekend with a big smile, just like Annie's. Feel free to join in with a post of your own, too.