Karol Wight

Wight received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in art history.^[1] Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of "Mythological beakers and Roman glass production in the first century A.D."^[2]

In 2011, Wight was appointed executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass, a museum with a collection of 45,000 glass objects that represent the history, science and art of glass. In 2015 she was appointed president and executive director of the museum.^[3][1] Prior to this appointment, she was senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California.^[3] She is also curator of ancient and Islamic glass at the museum.^[4] Prior to that she held the position of senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum's Getty Villa in Malibu, California. Over a period of 26 years she held various positions at the Getty.^[1]

In 2017, President Barack Obama appointed Wight to an advisory post on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of State.^[5]

Wight has published articles^[6] and books on ancient glass objects and glass making techniques.^[7] Among them are the book, Molten color: glassmaking in antiquity.^[8]