Karol Wight
American museum director
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Karol B. Wight is a museum administrator and is currently the president and executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass. She specializes in the field of ancient glass.
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| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |
| Occupations | Art historian, museum director |
| Known for | Glass art and artifacts |
Education
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]
Career
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]