GlassLab, a film by Deidi von Schaewen, 2012. See this film on view in Making Ideas: Experiments in Design at GlassLab at The Corning Museum of Glass through January 6, 2013. http://www.cmog.org/glasslab GlassLab offers designers unprecedented access to molten glass.

Korean-born New York based artist Sun K. Kwak makes the invisible visible using a surprisingly simple medium: black masking tape. Through a process infused with an element of performance, Kwak channels surrounding energy to manifest a movement of lines, liberating the space and transforming it into a new pictorial reality. For the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012), Kwak creates a site-specific installation for the museum's North Court, which will not be seen again after the exhibition closes.

Min Jeong Song studies ornamental styles across time periods and geography, and her work explores how certain attributes of glass can be used to create ambivalent objects: objects that don't belong to pre-existing stylistic classifications. She is especially interested in cross-cultural stylistic developments between East Asia and Western Europe, a topic she explored during a month-long residency at The Corning Museum of Glass. Song holds a master's of fine art in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in glass at the Royal College of Art.

Amie McNeel came to The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass as part of the joint Artists-in-Residence partnership with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. A sculpture professor for 20 years, McNeel is inspired by the formal symmetries of natural systems, which can be both subtle and severe, uniform and chaotic. She has recently begun incorporating blown and carved glass into her hand-formed steel sculptures.

Beth Lipman is known for her works in glass that generally pay homage to still-life paintings from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Continuing her exploration of material culture as a means to understand desire and consumption, she investigated and recreated Victorian decorative arts during her Studio residency, juxtaposing common 19th-century domestic objects with their contemporary counterparts. Lipman was the April, 2011, Artist in Residence at The Studio, the glassmaking school of The Corning Museum of Glass.

A Berlin-based artist, Veronika Beckh has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe. Her work invites viewers to disconnect from the noise and chaos of everyday life and to find light, tranquility, and contemplation. Beckh used her residency at The Studio to expand her practice beyond smaller objects and ensembles toward room installations. She experimented with scale, combining blown pieces with float glass and mirror to integrate with and respond to space, light, reflections, and the viewer.

Aziz + Cucher: Some People features a new body of work by the New York-based collaborative of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher. Working together since 1992, Aziz + Cucher are widely recognized as pioneers in the field of digital imaging. Through the use of digital animation, performance, video, and sound, Some People situates recent and current conflicts into a never-ending narrative that exists outside of a specific place and time. The outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 profoundly affected the artists, who have cultural and familial ties to the area.

This video chronicles the student competition 'another vibrant art fight,' held at MOCA Cleveland on 9/29/10. Five teams of art students from Cleveland State University, Oberlin College, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Kent State University, and the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art at the University of Akron created murals in response to the large wall mural "ilegí­timo" by the art collective assume vivid astro focus. Who will win first prize? Watch and find out...