Susie Silbert Presentation, 22nd International Flameworking Conference, March 15, 2024

We were honored to be joined by Susie Silbert at the opening of the 2024 International Flameworking Conference at Salem Community College on Friday, March 15. We are excited to share with you Susie’s thoughtful and thought provoking presentation, “Listening from the Edges: Every Periphery is a Center”.

About the talk:
So much knowledge is built from the center out, maintaining the status quo and keeping the same few narratives in circulation. But what if we valued the things on the periphery of our knowledge instead? Or even better, what if we adjusted the frame so that the edge becomes the center? In four acts that cover some of the earliest glassworking to the most cutting edge, this talk invites us to shift our focus, making space for wonder, curiosity, and discovery.

About Susie:
Susie J. Silbert is an independent curator, writer, and 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”.