Whether for a new or seasoned collector, the Art Glass Forum | NY, since its founding in 1999, has a rich history of fascinating, informative talks on the various aspects of glass history . Come and join us to learn about glass. Our past lectures have been:
2023-2024
October: Charlotte Potter Kasic - Glass at The Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University
November: Jennifer Hand - The Glow Up: Mapping Constellations of Care Among Women in Studio Glass
December: Dr. Katherine Larson - Dig Deeper: Discovering an Ancient Glass Workshop
January: Marissa Hershon - Visions of Grandeur: The Tiffany Studios Window at Pembroke
February: Dr. Letitia Chambers - Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass
March: George Bryant - Henry Holiday: His Stained Glass Windows for Gilded-Age New York
April: Tom Venturella and Jim Murphy - A Live Tour of Venturella Studio
June: R.J. Maupin - Emerging Scholar
2022-2023
September: Tim Carey - Drawn to Light: A Painter's Journey to Glass
October: Jeanne Pelletier - At Home with Louis Comfort Tiffany: Saving a National Historic Landmark for the Public
November: Theodore Ellison - From Hand to Hearth: The Untold Story of American Glass Mosaic Fireplaces
December: Jean-Claude Zeigler Memorial Lecture. Margot Murray - Conserving Salviati's Glass Dragons at The Met
February: Lynn Maliszweski - Glass at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
April: Michelle Jackson-Beckett - Glass Ceilings and Class Struggle: Glass Labor Disputes and the Gender Divide in 1890s NY
May: Wilfried Zeisler - Glass: Art. Beauty. Design
June: Sophia Kamps - Emerging Scholar
2021-2022
September: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen - 150 of Stained Glass in America: The Windows of St. Andrew's Dune Church
October: Katherine Gray, Jason McDonald, Erik Meek and Alexander Rosenberg - Glass Blowing in Reality: "Blown Away"
November: Jean-Claude Zeigler Memorial Lecture. Crawford Alexander Mann - Sargent, Whistler and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano
December: Iris Moon - Luxury after the Terror
January: Norwood Viviano - Exploring the Re-cast Cities
February: Elizabeth McGoey - A Window's Odyssey: Tiffany's Hartwell Memorial Window
March: Cynthia Williams - Mastering Modernity: Walter Dorwin Teague and Sidney Waugh at Steuben Glass
April: Sophie Ong - New Encounters with Glass at the Toledo Museum of Art
May: Charlotte Holzer - The Glass Dress at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
June: Susan Kinsey, Ali Wysopal and Annika Blake-Howland - Emerging Scholars
2020-2021
October: Nonie Gadsden - Louis Comfort Tiffany's Parakeets Window
November: Zac Bleicher - Modernism Meets Medievalism in Chicago: The Stained Glass of Edgar Miller
December: Judith Schaechter - The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter's Stained Glass
January: Samantha De Tillo - Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy
February: Anna Kupik - Art Deco Gems: Hildreth Meiére's Glass Work from Wall Street to the Altar
March: Christopher Maxwell - The Cost of Sparkling Company
April: Jean-Claude Zeigler Memorial Lecture. Tina Oldknow - Venetian Glass Shapes the American Scene
May: Amber Cowan - Magic from Glass Past
June: Emerging Scholars Series. Matthew Gillman - Ancient Glass from Abbasid; Kayli Rideout - Tiffany Studios' Confederate Memorials; Lea Stephenson - The Aesthetic Movement Windows of D. Turno
2019-2020
October: Lauren Drapala, Tom Venturella and Jim Murphy - The Robert Chanler Windows for Gertrude Vanderbilt
November: Susie Silbert - Learning from New Glass Now
December: Laura Donefer - Embracing the Wild
February: Mark Salzman - Frederick Carder's Scent Bottles for Steuben
March: Moira Gallagher, Iris Moon and Karen Stamm - Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
April: Cancelled
May: Cancelled
June: Cancelled
2018-2019
October: Jean-Claude Zeigler Memorial Lecture. William Gudenrath - The Mysteries of Venetian Glass
November: Augustina Ros, Biba Schutz and Linda MacNeil - Cutting Edge: The Use of Glass in Contemporary Art Jewelry
December: Alexandra Ruggiero - Glass of the Architects: Vienna 1900-1937
February: Laura Buchner - The Architecture of Light: A History of Dalle de Verre
March: Members' Show and Tell
April: Amy Hopwood - Frederick Carder's Steuben Glass Through the Newark Museum's Collections
May: Emerging Scholars Series. Joseph H. Larnerd - The Boy and His Bowl; Farnoosh Farmer - The History of the Convex Mirror
June: End of year party at R & Company
2017-2018
October: Christopher Lightfoot - Before and After the Blowing Revolution: Ancient Glass at Yale
November: Patricia C. Pongracz - Louis C. Tiffany's Designs for American Synagogues
December: Cybele Maylone - Glass After Objects
February: Katya and Doug Heller - Glass: From Counter-Culture to Mainstream Culture
March: Members' Show and Tell
April: Diane Wright - What's on View: Contemporary Glass in Art Museums
May: Emerging Scholars Series. Anna Millers - Women Working with Glass; Thea Goldring - Lead and Liquid: The Stained Glass of John LaFarge; Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie - Art and Imperial Allegory: The Deckelpokal of Ferdinand II
June: End of year party at Todd Merrill Gallery
2016-2017
October: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen - Tiffany in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
November: Elizabeth A. Williams - Fusing the Future with Tradition: Glass at the RISD Museum
December: David Barquist - 140 Years of Collecting American Glass at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
February: Ulysses S. Dietz - Modern from Day 1: Collecting Glass at the Newark Museum
March: John Stuart Gordon - For Glass, for Country, and for Yale: American Glass at Yale University
April: Caroline Cole - The Brilliance of American Glass: 100 Years Collecting Glass at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
May: Emerging Scholars Series. Ria Murray - The Ornamented Glassware of Bruno Mauder; Morgan Albahary -Tiffany's Glass Mosaics in New York City
July: End of year party at Heller Gallery
2015-2016
October: James Asselstine - The Dorflinger Glass Works and Its Restoration
November: Mary Clerkin Higgins - Angels in the Architecture: Restoring the Stained Glass of Stanford Memorial Church
December: Regan Brumagen - America's Favorite Dish: Celebrating a Century of Pyrex
February: Michael Glancy - Infinite Obsession: How Did I Get Here
March: Alexandra Ruggiero - Fragile Legacy: The Marine Invertebrate Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
April: Mary Cheek Mills - Digging I-95: Glass from Philadelphia's Buried Past
May: Amy McHugh - Cabinet Curiosities: Silver-Mounted Favrile Glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany & Co.
June: End of year party at Lillian Nassau Gallery
2014-2015
October: Gregory Merkel - The History, Technology, and Artistry of Iridescent Luster Glass
November: Karol Wight - First Impressions: The Mold-Blown Glass of Ancient Rome
December: Gay LeClaire Taylor - The History of New Jersey Glassmaking
February: Suzanne Perrault - The Five Pieces I'd Like to Have in My Next Sale
March: Christie Mayer Lefkowith - René Lalique: The Innovator of the Perfume Industry
April: Susie J. Silbert - After Tiffany, Innovations in Glass 1960s and Today
May: Sheldon Barr - Ecclesiastical Tiffany
June: End of year party at Lillian Nassau Gallery
2013-2014
October: Sheldon Barr - 100 Years of Venetian Glass 1866-1966
November: Nick Dawes - Looking at Lalique
December: Audrey Whitty - A Retrospective of Irish Glass-Making from Renaissance to Modern Times
February: Howard Lockwood - Venini Glass by Carlo Scarpa
March: Kelly Conway - Great American Stories in the Corning Museum of Glass
April: Lise Dubé-Scherr - The Quest for Beauty: Contemporary Perspectives on Louis Comfort Tiffany
May: Jennifer Scanlan - Glass in Lighting
June: End of year party at Lalique’s NYC showroom
2012-2013
November: Philip Chasen – French Cameo Glass, A to Z
December: Jennifer Perry Thalheimer – The Tiffany Collections of the Morse Museum
February: Jennifer Scanlan – Playing with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass
March: Thomas Venturella – Feeding the Flamingos: The Restoration of Stained Glass Windows at the Morse Museum
April: Jeffrey Evans – Collecting American Glass, A Retrospective
May: Sarah D. Coffin – Lobmeyr: The Art of Glassmaking with Interdisciplinary Design
June: End of year party at Macklowe Gallery
2011-2012
October: Paul Doros – The Favrile Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany – Part I
November: Jane Shadel Spillman – Mt. Washington and Pairpoint Glass
December: Damon Crain – The Mid-20th Century Artistic Glass of Empoli
February: Jennifer Scanlan – The Museum of Arts and Design Collects
March: Howard Lockwood – Ten Masterpieces of Italian Glass
April: Donald Samick – Restoring a Tiffany Stained Glass Window
May: Paul Doros – The Favrile Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany – Part II
June: End of year party viewing a member’s collection
2010-2011
October: Paul Stankard – Botanicals
November: Sheldon Barr – Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Ecclesiastical Designs
December: Florian Knothe – East Meets West: Cross-Cultural Influences in Glassmaking
February: Susie Kaplan Jacobson – English Cameo Glass
March: William Gudenrath - Unusual Goblet-Making Techniques of the Renaissance
April: Kirk Nelson - Treasures of the New Bedford Museum of Glass
May: Tina Oldknow - The Uses of History in 19th, 20th and 21st Century Glass
Party: End of year party at Leo Kaplan, Ltd
2009-2010
October: Julie Sloan – John La Farge’s Stained Glass Windows
November: Nicholas Dawes – René Lalique and the Natural World
December: Gay LeCleire Taylor – Durand Art Glass: 1924–1932
February: Tina Oldknow – Emile Gallé, the Wizard of Nancy, and his Successors
March: Kelly Conway – What’s New in Glass at the Chrysler Museum
April: Ken Leach – Perfume Bottles from the Leach-Peters Collection
May: Frank Maraschiello – Emile Gallé: Marquetrie sur Verre
June: End of year party viewing a member’s collection
2008-2009
October: David Whitehouse – The Glass Flowers of Harvard
November: Sheldon Barr – Venetian Glass Mosaics 1860-1917
December: Donald Samick – Lamb Studios: The Windows of Lamb Studios
February: Donna Strahan – Uranium In Glass
March: Howard Lockwood – Italian Glass Between the Wars
April: Lindsy Parrot - Tiffany’s Opalescent Sheet and Pressed Glass
May: Diane Wright – The Glass Windows of Frederick Wilson
June: End of year party viewing a member’s collection
2007-2008
October: Christopher Lightfoot: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
November: Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk
December: Gay LeCleire Taylor – American Glass of the 20th Century
February: Christopher Sheppard – Venetian Glass in the 17th and 18th Centuries
March: Tina Oldknow – Recent Contemporary Glass Sculptures
April: Stephen Koob – Care and Conservation of Glass Objects
May: Jane Shadel Spillman – American Engraved Glass of the 19th Century
June: End of year party viewing a member’s collection
2006-2007
October: Norman Hurst – Ancient Roman Glass
November: Stefano Carboni – Islamic Glass and Its Influence on European Glassmaking
December: Christopher Sheppard – Venetian Glass in the 16th and 17th Centuries
February:: Tim Novak – 19th and Early 20th Century European Art Glass
March Dedo Von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk – 19th Century Bohemian Glass
April: No Meeting
May: Andrew Page – Studio Glass
June: End of year party at the Ophir Gallery
2005-2006
October: New Acquisitions, Summer Finds"
November: Martha Stein - Carnival Glass: The Poor Man's Tiffany
December: Peter Raleigh and Stephen Nelson - Depression Glass: Glass for Everyone
February: Arlie Sulka - Tiffany's Dream Garden
2004-2005
October: Member's Night - Show and Tell
November: Charles Rosoff - Appraising Your Collection
November: Visit to Urban Glass
December: Gary Stradling - Early American Glass
February: Bill Marcoux - Mount Washington Glass
March: Jennifer Scanlan - Flameworking in Glass: Past, Present and Future
April: Tim Novak - Glass in Texas: The Runyon Collection of American, British and European Glass at Texas A&M University
May: Gordon Hancock - The Pastel Glass of Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces
June: End of year party viewing a member's collection
2003-2004
October: New Treasures from the Summer: A Members Show and Tell
November: Sheldon Barr - Louis C. Tiffany and The Associated Artists
November: Reception at Leo Kaplan Gallery - Great American Paperweight Artists
November: Members display at Triple Pier Show, New York City
November: Malcolm Mac Neil - Tour of Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, Museum of the City of New York
December: Damon Crain - The World of Blenko Glass
February: Carlese Westock - Late Blown Wares by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company
March: Lisa Pilosi - Glass Conservation & Restoration: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
April: Bruce Perkins - Insuring Your Collection Howard Lockwood - Cataloging Your Collection
May: Howard Lockwood - Glass from the North: Finland and Sweden in the Post War Years
June: End of year party viewing a member's collection
2002-2003
October: Howard Lockwood - Lecture and tour, Yoichi Ohira: Windows to the Soul of Glass, Barry Friedman Gallery
November: Sheldon Barr - Salviati at Stanford
December: Frederic Schneider - Japanese Cloissoné Enamels: A History of Technical Innovation and Visual Achievement
February: Malcolm Mac Neil - The Portland Vase and English Cameo Glass
March: Members Night - The Glass We Love to Collect
April: Alfredo Villanueva-Collado - Imperial's Art Glass, 1910-1924
May: David Goldstein - Collectible Victorian Glass
2001-2002
October: Mary Cheek Mills - Imports and Industry: Glass in Early America
November: Greg Kuharic - Creating the Secondary Market
February: Malcolm Mac Neil - The Splendor and Mystery of Quezal Art Glass
March: Nicholas Dawes - The Art of René Lalique
April: Alfredo Villanueva-Collado - Loetz and Jugendstil Glass: A Trip Through the Forest
2000-2001
November: Audrey Lipton - The Glass of Frederick Carder
December: Holiday party and viewing Joan Walter's collection of American and European perfume bottles
February: Vivian Highberg - Early Twentieth Century Tri-State Glass: Plebian to Prominent
March: Tours of Cast Glass at Rockefeller Center and Christopher Cosma's and Denise Amses's Glass Studio
April: Alfredo Villanueva-Collado - Dugan Glass: An American Original
May: Norman Hurst - Glass of the Ancient World
June: Howard Lockwood - An Overview of Twentieth Century Glass
2000
May 9: Rick Kinsel - Inaugural Lecture, A Unique Collaboration Between Business and the Arts: Coty, Lalique and Baccarat
June: Sheldon Barr - The Late 19th Century Venetian Glass Renaissance
2023-2024
October: Charlotte Potter Kasic - Glass at The Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University
November: Jennifer Hand - The Glow Up: Mapping Constellations of Care Among Women in Studio Glass
December: Dr. Katherine Larson - Dig Deeper: Discovering an Ancient Glass Workshop
January: Marissa Hershon - Visions of Grandeur: The Tiffany Studios Window at Pembroke
February: Dr. Letitia Chambers - Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass
March: George Bryant - Henry Holiday: His Stained Glass Windows for Gilded-Age New York
April: Tom Venturella and Jim Murphy - A Live Tour of Venturella Studio
June: R.J. Maupin - Emerging Scholar
2022-2023
September: Tim Carey - Drawn to Light: A Painter's Journey to Glass
October: Jeanne Pelletier - At Home with Louis Comfort Tiffany: Saving a National Historic Landmark for the Public
November: Theodore Ellison - From Hand to Hearth: The Untold Story of American Glass Mosaic Fireplaces
December: Jean-Claude Zeigler Memorial Lecture. Margot Murray - Conserving Salviati's Glass Dragons at The Met
February: Lynn Maliszweski - Glass at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
April: Michelle Jackson-Beckett - Glass Ceilings and Class Struggle: Glass Labor Disputes and the Gender Divide in 1890s NY
May: Wilfried Zeisler - Glass: Art. Beauty. Design
June: Sophia Kamps - Emerging Scholar
2021-2022
September: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen - 150 of Stained Glass in America: The Windows of St. Andrew's Dune Church
October: Katherine Gray, Jason McDonald, Erik Meek and Alexander Rosenberg - Glass Blowing in Reality: "Blown Away"
November: Jean-Claude Zeigler Memorial Lecture. Crawford Alexander Mann - Sargent, Whistler and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano
December: Iris Moon - Luxury after the Terror
January: Norwood Viviano - Exploring the Re-cast Cities
February: Elizabeth McGoey - A Window's Odyssey: Tiffany's Hartwell Memorial Window
March: Cynthia Williams - Mastering Modernity: Walter Dorwin Teague and Sidney Waugh at Steuben Glass
April: Sophie Ong - New Encounters with Glass at the Toledo Museum of Art
May: Charlotte Holzer - The Glass Dress at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
June: Susan Kinsey, Ali Wysopal and Annika Blake-Howland - Emerging Scholars
2020-2021
October: Nonie Gadsden - Louis Comfort Tiffany's Parakeets Window
November: Zac Bleicher - Modernism Meets Medievalism in Chicago: The Stained Glass of Edgar Miller
December: Judith Schaechter - The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter's Stained Glass
January: Samantha De Tillo - Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy
February: Anna Kupik - Art Deco Gems: Hildreth Meiére's Glass Work from Wall Street to the Altar
March: Christopher Maxwell - The Cost of Sparkling Company
April: Jean-Claude Zeigler Memorial Lecture. Tina Oldknow - Venetian Glass Shapes the American Scene
May: Amber Cowan - Magic from Glass Past
June: Emerging Scholars Series. Matthew Gillman - Ancient Glass from Abbasid; Kayli Rideout - Tiffany Studios' Confederate Memorials; Lea Stephenson - The Aesthetic Movement Windows of D. Turno
2019-2020
October: Lauren Drapala, Tom Venturella and Jim Murphy - The Robert Chanler Windows for Gertrude Vanderbilt
November: Susie Silbert - Learning from New Glass Now
December: Laura Donefer - Embracing the Wild
February: Mark Salzman - Frederick Carder's Scent Bottles for Steuben
March: Moira Gallagher, Iris Moon and Karen Stamm - Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
April: Cancelled
May: Cancelled
June: Cancelled
2018-2019
October: Jean-Claude Zeigler Memorial Lecture. William Gudenrath - The Mysteries of Venetian Glass
November: Augustina Ros, Biba Schutz and Linda MacNeil - Cutting Edge: The Use of Glass in Contemporary Art Jewelry
December: Alexandra Ruggiero - Glass of the Architects: Vienna 1900-1937
February: Laura Buchner - The Architecture of Light: A History of Dalle de Verre
March: Members' Show and Tell
April: Amy Hopwood - Frederick Carder's Steuben Glass Through the Newark Museum's Collections
May: Emerging Scholars Series. Joseph H. Larnerd - The Boy and His Bowl; Farnoosh Farmer - The History of the Convex Mirror
June: End of year party at R & Company
2017-2018
October: Christopher Lightfoot - Before and After the Blowing Revolution: Ancient Glass at Yale
November: Patricia C. Pongracz - Louis C. Tiffany's Designs for American Synagogues
December: Cybele Maylone - Glass After Objects
February: Katya and Doug Heller - Glass: From Counter-Culture to Mainstream Culture
March: Members' Show and Tell
April: Diane Wright - What's on View: Contemporary Glass in Art Museums
May: Emerging Scholars Series. Anna Millers - Women Working with Glass; Thea Goldring - Lead and Liquid: The Stained Glass of John LaFarge; Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie - Art and Imperial Allegory: The Deckelpokal of Ferdinand II
June: End of year party at Todd Merrill Gallery
2016-2017
October: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen - Tiffany in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
November: Elizabeth A. Williams - Fusing the Future with Tradition: Glass at the RISD Museum
December: David Barquist - 140 Years of Collecting American Glass at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
February: Ulysses S. Dietz - Modern from Day 1: Collecting Glass at the Newark Museum
March: John Stuart Gordon - For Glass, for Country, and for Yale: American Glass at Yale University
April: Caroline Cole - The Brilliance of American Glass: 100 Years Collecting Glass at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
May: Emerging Scholars Series. Ria Murray - The Ornamented Glassware of Bruno Mauder; Morgan Albahary -Tiffany's Glass Mosaics in New York City
July: End of year party at Heller Gallery
2015-2016
October: James Asselstine - The Dorflinger Glass Works and Its Restoration
November: Mary Clerkin Higgins - Angels in the Architecture: Restoring the Stained Glass of Stanford Memorial Church
December: Regan Brumagen - America's Favorite Dish: Celebrating a Century of Pyrex
February: Michael Glancy - Infinite Obsession: How Did I Get Here
March: Alexandra Ruggiero - Fragile Legacy: The Marine Invertebrate Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
April: Mary Cheek Mills - Digging I-95: Glass from Philadelphia's Buried Past
May: Amy McHugh - Cabinet Curiosities: Silver-Mounted Favrile Glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany & Co.
June: End of year party at Lillian Nassau Gallery
2014-2015
October: Gregory Merkel - The History, Technology, and Artistry of Iridescent Luster Glass
November: Karol Wight - First Impressions: The Mold-Blown Glass of Ancient Rome
December: Gay LeClaire Taylor - The History of New Jersey Glassmaking
February: Suzanne Perrault - The Five Pieces I'd Like to Have in My Next Sale
March: Christie Mayer Lefkowith - René Lalique: The Innovator of the Perfume Industry
April: Susie J. Silbert - After Tiffany, Innovations in Glass 1960s and Today
May: Sheldon Barr - Ecclesiastical Tiffany
June: End of year party at Lillian Nassau Gallery
2013-2014
October: Sheldon Barr - 100 Years of Venetian Glass 1866-1966
November: Nick Dawes - Looking at Lalique
December: Audrey Whitty - A Retrospective of Irish Glass-Making from Renaissance to Modern Times
February: Howard Lockwood - Venini Glass by Carlo Scarpa
March: Kelly Conway - Great American Stories in the Corning Museum of Glass
April: Lise Dubé-Scherr - The Quest for Beauty: Contemporary Perspectives on Louis Comfort Tiffany
May: Jennifer Scanlan - Glass in Lighting
June: End of year party at Lalique’s NYC showroom
2012-2013
November: Philip Chasen – French Cameo Glass, A to Z
December: Jennifer Perry Thalheimer – The Tiffany Collections of the Morse Museum
February: Jennifer Scanlan – Playing with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass
March: Thomas Venturella – Feeding the Flamingos: The Restoration of Stained Glass Windows at the Morse Museum
April: Jeffrey Evans – Collecting American Glass, A Retrospective
May: Sarah D. Coffin – Lobmeyr: The Art of Glassmaking with Interdisciplinary Design
June: End of year party at Macklowe Gallery
2011-2012
October: Paul Doros – The Favrile Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany – Part I
November: Jane Shadel Spillman – Mt. Washington and Pairpoint Glass
December: Damon Crain – The Mid-20th Century Artistic Glass of Empoli
February: Jennifer Scanlan – The Museum of Arts and Design Collects
March: Howard Lockwood – Ten Masterpieces of Italian Glass
April: Donald Samick – Restoring a Tiffany Stained Glass Window
May: Paul Doros – The Favrile Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany – Part II
June: End of year party viewing a member’s collection
2010-2011
October: Paul Stankard – Botanicals
November: Sheldon Barr – Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Ecclesiastical Designs
December: Florian Knothe – East Meets West: Cross-Cultural Influences in Glassmaking
February: Susie Kaplan Jacobson – English Cameo Glass
March: William Gudenrath - Unusual Goblet-Making Techniques of the Renaissance
April: Kirk Nelson - Treasures of the New Bedford Museum of Glass
May: Tina Oldknow - The Uses of History in 19th, 20th and 21st Century Glass
Party: End of year party at Leo Kaplan, Ltd
2009-2010
October: Julie Sloan – John La Farge’s Stained Glass Windows
November: Nicholas Dawes – René Lalique and the Natural World
December: Gay LeCleire Taylor – Durand Art Glass: 1924–1932
February: Tina Oldknow – Emile Gallé, the Wizard of Nancy, and his Successors
March: Kelly Conway – What’s New in Glass at the Chrysler Museum
April: Ken Leach – Perfume Bottles from the Leach-Peters Collection
May: Frank Maraschiello – Emile Gallé: Marquetrie sur Verre
June: End of year party viewing a member’s collection
2008-2009
October: David Whitehouse – The Glass Flowers of Harvard
November: Sheldon Barr – Venetian Glass Mosaics 1860-1917
December: Donald Samick – Lamb Studios: The Windows of Lamb Studios
February: Donna Strahan – Uranium In Glass
March: Howard Lockwood – Italian Glass Between the Wars
April: Lindsy Parrot - Tiffany’s Opalescent Sheet and Pressed Glass
May: Diane Wright – The Glass Windows of Frederick Wilson
June: End of year party viewing a member’s collection
2007-2008
October: Christopher Lightfoot: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
November: Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk
December: Gay LeCleire Taylor – American Glass of the 20th Century
February: Christopher Sheppard – Venetian Glass in the 17th and 18th Centuries
March: Tina Oldknow – Recent Contemporary Glass Sculptures
April: Stephen Koob – Care and Conservation of Glass Objects
May: Jane Shadel Spillman – American Engraved Glass of the 19th Century
June: End of year party viewing a member’s collection
2006-2007
October: Norman Hurst – Ancient Roman Glass
November: Stefano Carboni – Islamic Glass and Its Influence on European Glassmaking
December: Christopher Sheppard – Venetian Glass in the 16th and 17th Centuries
February:: Tim Novak – 19th and Early 20th Century European Art Glass
March Dedo Von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk – 19th Century Bohemian Glass
April: No Meeting
May: Andrew Page – Studio Glass
June: End of year party at the Ophir Gallery
2005-2006
October: New Acquisitions, Summer Finds"
November: Martha Stein - Carnival Glass: The Poor Man's Tiffany
December: Peter Raleigh and Stephen Nelson - Depression Glass: Glass for Everyone
February: Arlie Sulka - Tiffany's Dream Garden
2004-2005
October: Member's Night - Show and Tell
November: Charles Rosoff - Appraising Your Collection
November: Visit to Urban Glass
December: Gary Stradling - Early American Glass
February: Bill Marcoux - Mount Washington Glass
March: Jennifer Scanlan - Flameworking in Glass: Past, Present and Future
April: Tim Novak - Glass in Texas: The Runyon Collection of American, British and European Glass at Texas A&M University
May: Gordon Hancock - The Pastel Glass of Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces
June: End of year party viewing a member's collection
2003-2004
October: New Treasures from the Summer: A Members Show and Tell
November: Sheldon Barr - Louis C. Tiffany and The Associated Artists
November: Reception at Leo Kaplan Gallery - Great American Paperweight Artists
November: Members display at Triple Pier Show, New York City
November: Malcolm Mac Neil - Tour of Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, Museum of the City of New York
December: Damon Crain - The World of Blenko Glass
February: Carlese Westock - Late Blown Wares by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company
March: Lisa Pilosi - Glass Conservation & Restoration: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
April: Bruce Perkins - Insuring Your Collection Howard Lockwood - Cataloging Your Collection
May: Howard Lockwood - Glass from the North: Finland and Sweden in the Post War Years
June: End of year party viewing a member's collection
2002-2003
October: Howard Lockwood - Lecture and tour, Yoichi Ohira: Windows to the Soul of Glass, Barry Friedman Gallery
November: Sheldon Barr - Salviati at Stanford
December: Frederic Schneider - Japanese Cloissoné Enamels: A History of Technical Innovation and Visual Achievement
February: Malcolm Mac Neil - The Portland Vase and English Cameo Glass
March: Members Night - The Glass We Love to Collect
April: Alfredo Villanueva-Collado - Imperial's Art Glass, 1910-1924
May: David Goldstein - Collectible Victorian Glass
2001-2002
October: Mary Cheek Mills - Imports and Industry: Glass in Early America
November: Greg Kuharic - Creating the Secondary Market
February: Malcolm Mac Neil - The Splendor and Mystery of Quezal Art Glass
March: Nicholas Dawes - The Art of René Lalique
April: Alfredo Villanueva-Collado - Loetz and Jugendstil Glass: A Trip Through the Forest
2000-2001
November: Audrey Lipton - The Glass of Frederick Carder
December: Holiday party and viewing Joan Walter's collection of American and European perfume bottles
February: Vivian Highberg - Early Twentieth Century Tri-State Glass: Plebian to Prominent
March: Tours of Cast Glass at Rockefeller Center and Christopher Cosma's and Denise Amses's Glass Studio
April: Alfredo Villanueva-Collado - Dugan Glass: An American Original
May: Norman Hurst - Glass of the Ancient World
June: Howard Lockwood - An Overview of Twentieth Century Glass
2000
May 9: Rick Kinsel - Inaugural Lecture, A Unique Collaboration Between Business and the Arts: Coty, Lalique and Baccarat
June: Sheldon Barr - The Late 19th Century Venetian Glass Renaissance