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Upcoming Events

LECTURE
For the Love of Glass: Conservation and Restoration at the Corning Museum of Glass

• Speaker: Stephen Koob
• When: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
• Where: Shangri La
• Details: Reservations are required as seating is limited. RSVP by August 25, 2010 via shangrilaevents@ddcf.org or (808) 792-5503.

Glass conservator Stephen Koob will tell the story of the origins of the conservation program at the Corning Museum of Glass initiated by a disastrous flood in 1972. He will also present interesting examples of museum projects including ongoing archaeological work at Samothrace, Greece.

Stephen P. Koob received an MA in Classical Archaeology from Indiana University and a BSc in Archaeological Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. Formerly a conservator of ceramics and glass at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution, he is currently a conservator at the Corning Museum of Glass. He is the author of Conservation and Care of Glass Objects (The Corning Museum of Glass), 2006.