Tom McGlauchlin

Former Professor of art at Cornell, artist and pioneer in the studio glass movement Tom McGlauchlin died April 4, 2011, in Toledo, Ohio. He was 74.

Since 1962, when he was part of the first glass blowing workshop at the Toledo Museum of Art, McGlauchlin was involved in glass as an artist and teacher. He taught art at Cornell from 1961 through 1971, and from 1964 through 1966, he taught the second introductory glass blowing course ever offered at a college, at the University of Iowa.

After leaving Cornell McGlauchlin spent 13 years as an adjunct professor and director of the glass program at the University of Toledo/Toledo Museum of Art joint program.

His work has been exhibited worldwide, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum to the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art.