Kit Paulson – Magpie Museum of Disorderly Inquiry

Kit Paulson invites audiences into her Magpie Museum of Disorderly Inquiry, the whimsical, glass-filled world that occupies the front half of her studio. Known for transforming flameworked glass into unexpected objects—bonnets, ornate masks, delicate headpieces, even sewing tools—Kit reveals how curiosity and contradiction drive her art.

Like any true cabinet of curiosities, her collection delights in misdirection; as she points out, it’s “filled with blatant fakes. They’re not even fabricated in the right material.” This presentation explores the impulse to collect, the pleasure of artifice, and the imaginative possibilities of glass when it refuses to behave as expected.