This book will feature vessels, sculptures, and vitreographs (prints made from glass plates) by one of the founders of the American Studio glass movement, Harvey K. Littleton, often referred to a the father of the studio glass movement whose development of a small furnace brought hot glassmaking into the studio and out of the factory. Harvey Littleton (b. 1922), son of the Corning Glass Works scientist Jesse Littleton, was a teaching ceramist before he turned his attention to glassblowing. Inspired by the pioneering work in ceramics of the California potter Peter Voulkos, Littleton started experimenting with hot glass in his studio in 1958. His efforts culminated in the 1962 Toledo glassblowing workshops, which he led with Dominick Labino. Littleton then initiated a glass program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Through the University's glass program, Littleton would train many prominent glass artists, including Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, Fritz Dreisbach, Sam Herman, Tom McGlauchlin, Christopher Ries and Michael Taylor. Glass programs were subsequently introduced into art school curricula nationwide, initially through Littleton's energetic and talented students. Littleton's sculpture is characterized by rounded, thick blown shapes, often of alternating layers of color, conveying the artist's interest in capturing the dynamic, fluid quality of glass. The Corning Museum of Glass will celebrate Littleton's work in an exhibition entitled