[Leica] Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

thanks Howard, I enjoyed the story and the photographs.
Frank D

On 25 May, 2014, at 00:30, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> When we moved to Toledo in 1991, we discovered an art museum whose 
> stature, like Detroit?s, is reflective of the city?s past importance and 
> economic vigor rather than the present state of affairs. Toledo was also 
> one of the national ?glass cities?, with Libbey Glass, Libbey-Owens-Ford, 
> and Owens-Corning, many of whose founders and executives lived in Toledo 
> and contributed heavily to the city?s civic and cultural endowments. One 
> of the prominent recipients of these families? largess was the TMA, and 
> being located in the ?Glass City? as well as having had the Libbey family 
> as one of its founders, iit was only logical that the museum acquire a 
> Glass Pavilion, which opened 8 years ago. Constructed principally of 
> structural glass panels, it was designed by a pair of Japanese architects, 
> SANAA, who won the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2010. As when we were 
> Seattleites and hardly ever went up the Space Needle, yesterday we made 
> only our second visit to the Glass Pavilion, to take out-of-town friends 
> there. This had two results, one that I am going to take a glass-blowing 
> workshop this summer, and the other that I found a few beautiful glass 
> sculptures to photograph. Dale Chihuly (also of Seattle) seems to have a 
> strong presence in Toledo, and Italian artist Lino Tagliapietra had a 
> brief stint as master-in-residence here earlier this year. Tagliapietra?s 
> installation is bird-themed and was scheduled to coincide with the Biggest 
> Week in American Birding, which takes place every May at the Black Swamp 
> Bird Observatory in a preserve only a few miles away, where migratory 
> birds following a major south-to-north flyway head out over Lake Erie 
> bound for Canada. 
> 
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