In celebration of the exhibition Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the museum is hosting studio glass artists Gene Koss and Deborah Czeresko in conversation with exhibition curator Mel Buchanan in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts.

Doors open at 6 pm.The panel discussion begins at 6:30 pm and will be followed by a Q&A.  

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the Lapis Center for the Arts.

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About the Speakers

Gene Koss

Gene Koss founded the glass art program at Tulane University nearly fifty years ago and served as its head until his 2024 retirement. Koss’s exploration of glass began in the early 1970s alongside the emergence of the studio glass movement in the United States. The New Orleans– and Wisconsin-based artist has mentored generations of students while maintaining his own award-winning multimedia sculptural practice. 

Deborah Czeresko

Deborah Czeresko brought her artistic voice in glass to a wider audience as the winner of the inaugural season of Netflix’s Blown Away in 2019. The New York City-based artist has been exploring her experiences as a queer, woman artist since the early 1990s, when she graduated from Tulane’s glass program.

Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art is sponsored by the Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by Susanne and David Purvis, the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, Harvey and Marie Orth, Robert and Pamela Steeg, Mary Beth & Sheldon Ray, in honor of Bettie Pendley, and Lori and John Solon.