Make Your Own Glass (MYOG) Workshop Associate

The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) was established in 1951 by Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated) as a gift to the nation commemorating the company’s 100th anniversary. CMoG is an independent not-for-profit museum dedicated to exploring a single material: glass. Welcoming more than 300,000 annual visitors from around the world, the Museum's campus is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of glass, the world’s foremost library on glass, and one of the premier glassworking schools in the world.  CMoG was named by the New York Times among the U.S. museums to see for 2025, and Newsweek readers voted CMoG one of the Top 3 Best Art Museums in America.

The Corning Museum of Glass is seeking a skilled, enthusiastic, and guest-focused MYOG (Make Your Own Glass) Workshop Associate to join The Studio team. This full-time position offers an opportunity to share the art and excitement of glassmaking with guests of all experience levels through hands-on, creative experiences.

The position offers an hourly pay range of $18.25–$20.00, a 40-hour workweek, and benefits beginning immediately.

The employee shall be fully acquainted with and comply with all safety policies and procedures of the Corning Museum of Glass.

• Work one-on-one with guests to create furnace-blown and/or flameworked projects of varying durations and complexity.
• Guide guests through more in-depth glassmaking experiences, including the stages involved in making a glass vessel.
• Demonstrate and support the creation of glass objects such as ornaments, flowers, pumpkins, vessels, paperweights, beads, and pendants.
• Provide instruction and assistance with sandblasting, engraving, fusing, and other glassmaking projects as trained.
• Maintain a strong focus on guest safety while demonstrating techniques and supporting hands-on glassmaking activities.
• Teach and lead glassmaking activities across programs as needed.
• Host social and public events for The Studio as requested.
• Support programs designed to expand the diversity of The Studio's user community.

• Manage glass objects throughout the production process, including operating annealers, packaging, labeling, and preparing finished work for shipment or pickup.
• Assist with or lead technical duties, including preparing supplies, operating studio equipment, and cleaning and maintaining workspaces and equipment.
• Help maintain the MYOG Workshop and wider facility in accordance with The Studio's standards.
• Open and close the MYOG Workshop as needed.
• Take inventory of workshop supplies and assist with pre- and post-project preparation.
• Support the planning, coordination, and delivery of new programs, projects, and systems.
• Follow all Museum safety policies, procedures, and established studio protocols.

• Contribute to a welcoming, engaging, educational, and positive environment for guests, colleagues, artists, instructors, studio users, donors, and the wider glass community.
• Actively support the Museum's commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion.
• Support the Museum's Advancement initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with the team while also taking initiative and completing tasks independently.
• Take on additional responsibilities as directed.

• Associate's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Proficient hands-on hot glass working experience, with the ability to demonstrate techniques and safely guide guests through glassmaking projects.
• Experience in furnace glassblowing and/or flameworking, including the ability to operate related equipment.
• Experience with sandblasting, glass fusing, engraving, or related equipment is preferred.
• Basic proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, MS Teams, and SharePoint.

• Demonstrated ability to blow glass and create small, one- to two-gather objects with inexperienced guests and/or flamework soft-glass beads and pendants with guests while maintaining guest safety.
• Ability and comfort providing basic instruction to individuals and groups creating furnace-worked, flameworked, sandblasted, engraved, or fused glass objects.
• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills, with a genuine interest in helping guests learn and enjoy the glassmaking process.
• Ability to communicate effectively and adapt instruction for people with varying levels of experience and from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to work professionally and collaboratively with artists, instructors, studio users, the public, donors, and colleagues.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team or independently under minimal supervision.
• Ability to learn and navigate necessary shipping software.
• Commitment to representing the Museum professionally and upholding its mission, vision, and values.
• Willingness to follow organizational and departmental policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Flexibility to work weekends, evenings, and holidays, as well as variable hours.
• Willingness to travel regionally and/or domestically as needed.

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to move about, operate/use equipment, communicate, detect/distinguish, and reach. Note: Position requires sustained repetitive motion. The employee is occasionally required to remain in a stationary position, ascend/descend, detect/distinguish (impaired olfactory sense is potentially problematic for workplace safety). Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to distinguish color and adjust focus.

The employee is frequently required to move/transport up to 50 pounds.

The work environment is regularly controlled by indoor climate and extreme heat (non-weather). The work environment is occasionally indoors not climate controlled, wet, humid, work near moving mechanical parts, work in high precarious places, odors, fumes, airborne particles, outdoor weather conditions, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Maintain confidentiality of information related to the Corning Museum of Glass and employees that may be encountered, either formally or informally, during the normal course of business.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed and is not an inclusive summary of job duties and responsibilities. The omission of specific statements of duties or responsibilities does not exclude them from the position. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee and is subject to change by the Corning Museum of Glass as the needs of the Museum and requirements of the job change.