Karol Wight
{{short description|American museum director}}
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|alma_mater = University of California Los Angeles
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| known_for = Glass art and artifacts
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Karol B. Wight is a museum administrator and is currently the president and executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass. She specializes in the field of ancient glass.
Education
Wight received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in art history. Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of "Mythological beakers and Roman glass production in the first century A.D."{{cite web |last1=Wight |first1=Karol |title=Mythological beakers and Roman glass production in the first century A.D. |url=https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99842633504126&context=L&vid=01CORNING_INST:01CORNING_INST&lang=en&search_scope=MyInstitution&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=creator,exact,Wight,%20Karol,AND&facet=creator,exact,Wight,%20Karol&mode=advanced&offset=0 |publisher=UCLA Thesis (PhD) UMI Dissertation Services |accessdate=5 October 2019}}
Career
In 2011, Wight was appointed executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass, a museum with a collection of 45,000 glass objects that represent the history, science and art of glass. In 2015 she was appointed president and executive director of the museum.{{cite web |title=Karol Wight Appointed Executive Director of The Corning Museum of Glass |url=http://artdaily.com/news/47679/Karol-Wight-Appointed-Executive-Director-of-The-Corning-Museum-of-Glass#.XZiUyC2ZPYJ |publisher=Art Daily |accessdate=5 October 2019}} Prior to this appointment, she was senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California.{{cite web |title=Biography: Karol Wight |url=https://www.cmog.org/about/staff-biographies/karol-wight |publisher=Corning Museum of Glass |accessdate=8 November 2022}} She is also curator of ancient and Islamic glass at the museum.{{cite web |title=The Responsibilities of Museums and the Market: Karol Wight's Interview with the Antiquities Coalition |url=https://theantiquitiescoalition.org/the-responsibilities-of-museums-and-the-market-karol-wights-interview-with-the-antiquities-coalition/ |publisher=Antiquities Coalition |accessdate=5 October 2019}} Prior to that she held the position of senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum's Getty Villa in Malibu, California. Over a period of 26 years she held various positions at the Getty.
In 2017, President Barack Obama appointed Wight to an advisory post on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of State.{{cite web |title=Committee Members |url=https://eca.state.gov/cultural-heritage-center/cultural-property-advisory-committee/committee-members |publisher=U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs |accessdate=5 October 2019}}
Wight has published articles{{cite journal |last1=Wight |first1=Karol B. |title=Glass from Oppenländer Collection Acquired by The J. Paul Getty Museum |journal=Journal of Glass Studies |date=2004 |volume=46 |pages=196–198 |jstor=24190943 }} and books on ancient glass objects and glass making techniques.{{cite web |title=Corning Museum of Glass Library Collections Search: Karol Wight |url=https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=creator,exact,Wight,%20Karol,AND&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01CORNING_INST:01CORNING_INST&facet=creator,exact,Wight,%20Karol&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0 |accessdate=5 October 2019}} Among them are the book, Molten color: glassmaking in antiquity.{{cite book |last1=Wight |first1=Karol |title=Molten Color: glassmaking in antiquity |date=2011 |publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum |location=Los Angeles |url=https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991219733504126&context=L&vid=01CORNING_INST:01CORNING_INST&lang=en&search_scope=MyInstitution&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=creator,exact,Wight,%20Karol,AND&facet=creator,exact,Wight,%20Karol&mode=advanced&offset=0 |accessdate=5 October 2019}}
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Category:Directors of museums in the United States