# @corningmuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYU8h3Ex2Gf
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65548093-corningmuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-14T17:31:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Corning Museum of Glass (@corningmuseum) — https://gondola.cc/corningmuseum

## Caption

We’re unboxing early—because the big moment is almost here. 📦👀 Curatorial Fellow risepeacock is giving us a first look and sharing the inspiration behind the merch for ‘Tough Stuff: Women in the American Glass Studio!’ 

T-shirts, totes, notebooks, and more—all connected back to the stories in the exhibition, are now available in the Shops and online. 🛍️🔗 We hope to see you at our Members Opening on Friday, May 15, and/or the public opening on Saturday, May 16! 

Come see it for yourself 🥹 and take a little of it home with you!  

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‘Tough Stuff: Women in the American Glass Studio’ is the first survey exhibition of work by exceptional women artists working in glass in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s—the breakthrough decades of the American Studio Glass Movement. 
 
American art in the 1960s was fueled by a climate of material and conceptual experimentation. During this decade, glass became a focus point for many artists in America, commonly ceramicists, who wanted to learn the limits and possibilities of glass within their own studios, rather than the limitations of glass being designed and fabricated in a factory setting. This shift in conception and practice fundamentally changed the American perception of glass as an artistic medium, giving rise to what we now recognize as the Studio Glass Movement.  
 
‘Tough Stuff’ champions the lives and critical early work of female artists, bringing into view their formal and material breakthroughs, historical impact, and profound conceptual frameworks in glass as an artistic medium. Visitors will discover how work from this period by female artists illuminates the broader social, cultural, and gender politics of the time.

#womeninarts #toughstuff #artistsoninstagram #womenartists #womenglassartists

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