Karol Wight

Karol B. Wight is a museum administrator and is currently the President and Executive Director of The Corning Museum of Glass. She specializes in the field of ancient glass.

Wight at the Italy-U.S. Memorandum of Understanding Fifteen Years of Heritage Protection and Cultural Cooperation

Education

Wight received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in art history.[1] Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of "Mythological beakers and Roman glass production in the first century A.D."[2]

Career

In 2011, Wight was appointed executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass, a museum with a collection of 45,000 glass objects that represent the history, science and art of glass. In 2015 she was appointed president and executive director of the museum.[3][1] She is also curator of ancient and Islamic glass at the museum.[4] Prior to that she held the position of senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum's Getty Villa in Malibu, California. Over a period of 26 years she held various positions at the Getty.[1]

In 2017, President Barack Obama appointed Wight to an advisory post on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of State.[5]

Wight has published articles[6] and books on ancient glass objects and glass making techniques.[7] Among them are the book, Molten color: glassmaking in antiquity.[8]

References
  1. "Karol Wight Appointed Executive Director of The Corning Museum of Glass". Art Daily. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  2. Wight, Karol. "Mythological beakers and Roman glass production in the first century A.D." UCLA Thesis (PhD) UMI Dissertation Services. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  3. "Biography: Karol Wight". Corning Museum of Glass. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  4. "The Responsibilities of Museums and the Market: Karol Wight's Interview with the Antiquities Coalition". Antiquities Coalition. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  5. "Committee Members". U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  6. Wight, Karol B. (2004). "Glass from Oppenländer Collection Acquired by The J. Paul Getty Museum". Journal of Glass Studies. 46: 196–198. JSTOR 24190943.
  7. "Corning Museum of Glass Library Collections Search: Karol Wight". Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  8. Wight, Karol (2011). Molten Color: glassmaking in antiquity. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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