Curator Melissa Post to leave the Museum of Glass

Melissa Post in a 2006 photo.

 

The Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, announced today that its top curator, Melissa G. Post, has decided to leave the museum, effective Wednesday, November 17, 2010. According to a press release, Post “plans to relocate to the East Coast to be closer to her family and pursue personal interests.”

Set for a Fall 2011 opening, the new Chrysler Museum glass studio will accentuate an extensive art collection

The exterior of the building across from the museum that will house the Chrysler's new hotshop, scheduled to open in Fall 2011.

The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, has a 10,000-object  collection of historic and contemporary glass unexpectedly strong for a regional art museum, and making up nearly a third of its entire holdings. Credit the early 1950s gift of New England Glass Company glasses from the estate of Norfolk resident Florence Smith, add in the 1971 Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. donation of more than 8,000 works of glass, and factor in a steady stream of smaller but significant gifts of English cameo, 20th-century Italian, and contemporary glass. The collection, which is overseen by curator of glass Kelly Conway, also benefited from the two Art of Glass summer celebrations that brought together all of the area’s museum collections of glass to create a blockbuster event in 1999 and 2009. Now, a 7,000-square-foot hotshop will complete the museum’s dedication to the material of glass with a center for education and artist demonstrations. It is currently being built across the street from the main museum building and scheduled to open next autumn.