The Adele and Leonard Leight Series: Art, Design and Innovation presents Susie Silbert

The Adele and Leonard Leight Series: Art, Design and Innovation presents Susie Silbert
Recorded September 10, 2023
The Speed Art Museum is pleased to welcome Susie Silbert as the 2023 speaker for The Adele and Leonard Leight Series: Art, Design, and Innovation, a program generously founded and endowed in 2014 by Jenna, Jonathan, and Peter Leight in honor of their parents.
Topic: Reflect, refract, encounter, smash: glassy ways to see and know
Artists, designers, and craftspeople use glass as a medium to think about the surrounding world, our place in it, and our ability to affect change. In this talk, Susie J. Silbert will discuss artists using the power of reflection to reanimate Indian craft traditions that have been lost to time, interpreting the movement of the hot shop as part of hip hop, and using the collaborative nature of glassblowing as a way to build community, among other stories.
Susie J. Silbert is an independent curator and writer and the former Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass. Her curatorial practice is expansive, constantly seeking to broaden the definitions of what the material of glass is and can be, with the goal of making contemporary discourse on glass reflective of the breadth of artists, makers, and thinkers involved in the medium. Silbert has been described as “part performance artist, part curator” with a lecture style that has been characterized as “half standup comedian and half evangelist.”