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All rights reserved.An Overview of Lipofsky’s Collection
The Lipofsky digital collection, held at the Rakow Research
Library, consists of over 40,000 images taken by the artist featuring
subjects that include the following.
- Lipofsky working glass at symposia and events around the
world. - The Great California Glass Symposium
- Studios at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berke-
ley) and The California College of Arts and Crafts - Students he taught at UC Berkeley (Marquis, Paula Bartron,
John Lewis, Alan Rice, and John Naess) - Glass artists at work (Dale Chihuly, Gianni Toso, Harvey Lit-
tleton, Joel Philip Myers, Dominick Labino, Fritz Dreisbach,
Thermon Stanton, Howard BenTre, Jamie Carpenter, et al.) - Photos taken during his travels with pictures of the people he
met and the factories, studios, and schools he visited
Additionally, the Library collaborated with Lipofsky to digitize
his film collection. These 57 films originally shot on 8 mm and
16 mm film, date back to the early 1960s. The collection includes
footage from: - Blow Glass!, a 1969 film featuring glassblowing at UC Berke-
ley. Lipofsky is shown working in the studio along with sev-
eral students including Marquis, Paula Bartron, and Robert
Naess. At the end of the film are scenes of the National Guard
and People’s Park demonstrations. - A 1976 film showing Lipofsky and students building a furnace
at the California College of Arts and Crafts.
In 2009, Lipofsky received the Glass Art Society’s Lifetime
Achievement Award at the GAS conference in Corning, New York.
In Tina Oldknow’s introduction of Lipofsky at the ceremony, she
states, “When I asked other artists what kinds of things Marvin was
doing in the early years—how they remember him—they invariably
answer that they remember his lectures and all of his slides of other
peoples’ work in glass around the world. Or that they always saw him
taking photographs. He has created an invaluable visual record of
the history of the Studio Glass movement through his photography.”
The Rakow Library is committed to preserving and sharing
Lipofsky’s archive so that his work will continue to inspire future
artists and students. You can learn more about Lipofsky’s career
and teachings as the Corning Museum of Glass launches portions
of his digital collection in spring and summer 2016.Visit vimeo.com/153842550 for the 2009 Glass Art Society Oral
History with Marvin Lopfsky.Marvin Lipofsky, Autumn in L’viv Again, 1995–96 #3,
12" x 13-1/2" x 12"Marvin Lipofsky, California Loop Series sculpture,
Berkeley, California, 1968–1973.Lino Tagliapietra and factory workers.
Effetre International, 1980. Collection
of the Rakow Research Library, The
Corning Museum of Glass. Photo by
Marvin Lipofsky, © Marvin Lipofsky.