Mel Buchanan is the RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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• 7 Director’s Foreword | Susan M. Taylor11 Acknowledgments15 Introduction | Mel Buchanan19 Building a Collection: Glass at NOMA | Mel Buchanan and Laura Ochoa Rincon29 Sand, Ash, Heat: A History of Glass | Mel Buchanan93 Interview with Artist Gene Koss | Mel Buchanan103 Glass’s Vital Role in a Scientific Laboratory | Alex Sanchez109 Connections Mini and Mighty: West African Beadwork in New Orleans and BeyondDow M. Edwards and Amanda M. Maples119 Venetian Glass: 800 Years of Exchange | Christopher Maxwell126 A Pastoral Longing—One Century Apart | Laura Ochoa Rincon129 In Plain Sight: E. J. Bellocq and Photography on Glass | Brian Piper132 Looking for Nellie and Lulu in Glass | Zella Palmer141 Glass Symbols of Temperance and Prohibition | Laura Ochoa Rincon143 The Art and Science of Glass Conservation | Ingrid Seyb159 Authors161 Photo Credits163 Index