Kitchen Dreams
April 14 - Sept 2, 2012 Step into a comical world of 1950’s pop culture with Ricky Bernstein’s Kitchen Dreams. Using glass, aluminum and childhood memories, artist Ricky Bernstein pieces together everyday life through a caricature of social roles and cultural icons. Bernstein’s life-sized collages animate a bold, bright, somewhat surreal world, bound to bring you a good belly laugh. Exhibit Opening and “Coffee Talk” with the Artist
Saturday, April 14th,10:30amMeet Ricky Bernstein and hear how childhood memories inspire his wacky caricatures in glass. Friday Night Sock Hop at the Drive-in
June 8th, 6-9pmLeave the ankle biters at home and have a blast on the lakeside lawn of the museum. With music, dancing, drive-in style food, classic cars and American beer, anyone hip will be there to support programming at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum. Cover charge is $10 presale and $15 at the door. Drive in style food will be available for purchase. Ice Cream Social and Glass Egg Roll
Saturday, June 9th,11am—2pmCome dressed in your favorite costume and join us for a good old-fashioned Ice Cream Social and a Glass Egg Roll on the lakeside lawn of the museum (think Easter at The White House). Of course, there will be art activities for everyone to enjoy, a 1950's costume contest and "I Spy" tour through the Kitchen Dreams exhibition
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The Legacy of Littleton: Harvey Littleton and His StudentsSeptember 15, 2012 to February 24, 2013 The exhibition features early students of Harvey Littleton who have carried on his legacy by further developing and sharing glass as a studio art. Featured artists include, Christopher Ries, Dale Chihuly, David Huchthausen, Tom McGlauchlin, Audrey Handler, Gary Beecham, Fritz Dreisbach, Michael Taylor, Martin Lipofsky, Henry Halem, John Brekke, Bill Boysen, Vernon Brejcha, Brent Cox, Jack Ink, Kent Ipsen, John Littleton and Kate Vogel.
Opening Weekend Programming
• Hot glass demonstrations with Aunt Gladys from Southern Illinois University
• Discussions throughout the weekend featuring Fritz Driesbach, Audrey Handler, Joan Falconer Byrd and others Thank you exhibition sponsors: Midwest Contemporary Glass Art Group, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass and the Wisconsin Arts Board. This exhibition is sponsored in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the state of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. 
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Past Exhibitions
Big Ideas/Small Packages: Magnificent Glass Under 20
November 1, 2008 through February 21, 2009
 This exhibition honors the paperweight tradition on which Bergstrom-Mahler Museum was founded. It explores the processes of glass techniques used in paperweight making and earlier, to examine the continuum of glass working methods today.
Many of the techniques used in working and decorating glass did not begin and end in one era. Glass is a material that evolved over centuries with a long history of use for creating decorative and functional objects. The earliest objects were small precious inlays, beads, unguent jars and containers for oils and perfumes. These can be traced back to Egyptian use, at least 6,000 years ago or earlier.
This exhibition examines the dynamic possibilities of these ancient glass methods, expanded upon by technology, creativity and contemporary thought, in small scale to honor the initial direction of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum and discover the unending possibilities of the material.
The visual surprises are many as you explore the profound ingenuity of the artists using this historically alluring, versatile and dynamic material: glass.
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