Susanne K. Frantz is the former Curator of 20th-Century Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass in New York. She held that position for 13 years until relocating to the Czech Republic in 1998 as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. During her 5 years of residence in Prague her research focused on the evolution of glass sculpture in Bohemia between the two World Wars. Among the exhibitions that she organized for Corning were Thirty Years of New Glass, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová: A 40-Year Collaboration in Glass and The Glass Skin: Recent International Sculpture (with the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf). Her 2003 exhibition The Other Side of the Looking Glass: The Glass Body and Its Metaphors was curated for the Turtle Bay Museum in California. Frantz's book, Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, 1989), remains a primary reference in the field. In 1996 she was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing of distinction in the arts. She oversaw 13 issues of Corning's annual publication New Glass Review and the awarding of the annual Rakow Commission. Ms. Frantz is a member of the International Council of the Pilchuck Glass School and is a former President and Honorary Lifetime Member of the Glass Art Society. Susanne Frantz lectures throughout the world, is the editor of the Glass Art Society Journal, and consults on the development of exhibitions and collections, both public and private.