Collections

Helped develop the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family collection of contemporary glass, and served as counsel on its donation to the Corning Museum of Glass.

Instrumental in facilitating the donation of Bruce and Ann Bachmann’s collection of studio glass to The Henry Ford, the foundation of its Davidson-Gerson Modern Glass Gallery.

From the early to the late 1990s, Habatat, led by Ferdinand Hampson, was an early contributor to the glass collection of Armenian-American collector and philanthropist Gerard L. Cafesjian, now shown at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan and the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum in Minnesota.

Habatat helped build the collections of Warren Coville and the Kotler family, now shown in the 5,500-square-foot Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Ferdinand and Corey Hampson assisted collector Larry Eisenberg with acquisitions for his glass collection, now at The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, and traveled with him to build it.

Worked with founders Richard and Carolyn Barry on the museum’s acquisition of a sculpture by Howard Ben Tré. The museum’s leadership has since served on the jury of Habatat’s International.

Placed work by Peter Bremers, Lucy Lyon and Stephen Rolfe Powell in the art glass collection of the Glass Light Hotel & Gallery.

Helped develop the Seven Bridges collection, contributing to collector Richard McKenzie’s holdings of contemporary glass, including work by Peter Bremers and Nancy Callan.

Facilitated Martin Blank’s commission The Giving & Winds of Inspiration for the Arthur M. Blank Foundation in Atlanta. Artist’s resume

Worked with developer Larry Silverstein on Martin Blank’s selection to propose a public art commission for 7 World Trade Center, the first tower rebuilt at the World Trade Center site. Artist’s resume

Placed work by Tim Tate in the onboard art collection of Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship when it launched in 2024.

Habatat built the Guardian Industries collection of contemporary glass, including Dale Chihuly’s Macchia Forest.

Corey developed the collection for Trish Duggan, and every sculpture in it came through him. The founding collection traced studio glass from the 1960s to today; by March 2020 the inventory, with work then in transit, ran to more than 1,300 works by some 220 artists from about twenty countries. Some 550 are Czech and Slovak, an exceptional holding of contemporary Central European glass, and many artists are represented in depth: 51 works by Petr Hora, 47 by Jan Exnar, 40 by Václav Cigler, 36 by Rony Plesl, 33 by Peter Bremers, 30 each by Bertil Vallien and Tomáš Hlavička, 28 by Livio Seguso, 26 each by Lino Tagliapietra and Ann Wolff, 23 by Karen LaMonte and 16 by Harvey Littleton. Corey also serves on the museum’s board of directors.

A commissioned collection of art glass made by, for and about women, built with founder Ann Drake for the Center’s Studio Gang campus, including a cast iron sculpture by Karen LaMonte and a new work by Tim Carey, the stained glass artist at the center of the documentary Holy Frit. Every work came through Corey; see the full list.

A long partnership on studio glass, from Habatat’s Blown Away exhibition with the museum in 2009 to the Sherwin and Shirley Glass collection of contemporary glass, unveiled in the museum’s new Contemporary Craft Wing in 2018. Ferdinand Hampson wrote for its catalogue, The Glass Glass Collection (2018), with John B. Henry and Patricia Grieve Watkinson. Habatat placed Dale Chihuly’s Flint Institute of Arts Persian Chandelier, a 10-by-13-foot commission of 128 blown glass elements for the museum’s new lobby, unveiled in June 2009 to celebrate the museum’s 80th anniversary. In 2016 Corey placed Bertil Vallien’s Passage, the “One Million Dollar Boat,” in the museum’s permanent collection, where the Flint Institute of Arts owns it. It is the Swedish master’s legacy piece, made with Kosta Boda to mark their 53-year partnership, which arrived in Flint in April 2018 after a two-year journey. Corey serves on the committee for The Party, the museum’s annual gala.

Home each summer to the award winners of Habatat’s International Glass Invitational. Museum curators serve as jurors, and the museum has acquired work from the show for its collection.

A genealogy of the studio glass movement, connecting artists back through their teachers to its roots.

Named “curatorial advisor” on the museum’s founding collection: “the museum’s collection is being acquired with the help of Corey Hampson, president and owner of Royal Oak, Michigan-based Habatat Galleries.” Read

A survey of 112 contemporary glass artists by E. Ashley Rooney and Barbara Purchia, edited by Corey Hampson, who also wrote its introduction. Book record

The catalog for Habatat’s exhibition with the Flint Institute of Arts, written by Corey Hampson with Aaron Schey and critic James Yood. Library record

Ferdinand Hampson’s 256-page history of the Studio Glass Movement, published for its 50th anniversary and compiled by Corey Hampson. Publisher

The museum’s 232-page book by Trish Duggan with photographer Adam Bodnar, surveying the collection Corey curated; Corey contributed to the book. Book

Author of Solid Thoughts, the 2017 solo exhibition catalog for Michael Behrens, and co-author of the catalog for Habatat’s 45th Annual International Award Exhibition, as cited in Behrens’s published resume. Resume

Curator Kim Harty traces the exhibition, glass artists responding to the street, to Corey’s own collection of street art. Interview

Quoted in GLASS’s report on what sold at the fair. Report

Speaker at the museum’s glass symposium on museums and the role of galleries. Program

Vivian Wang, Shanghai Tiger, 2019. Credit line: “Gift of Aaron Schey–Habatat Galleries Michigan,” 2021. Record

Habatat was instrumental in developing the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family collection of contemporary glass, and served as counsel on its donation to the museum. Corning’s records for the Heineman gifts list Habatat in their provenance. The museum’s collection database lists Habatat Galleries Inc. as a source, with objects running across several pages of records, among them a 1984 sculpture by Robert Dane. Works given by the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family list Habatat Galleries in their provenance, among them Elevation (1988), Interrupted Loop Series (1992), Bag Explosion (1989), Water Hoe (1997) and Ultrabox (2005). Record

Sidney Hutter’s laminated vase, from Habatat Royal Oak to the Sophie Pearlstein bequest, and David Hopper’s Two Guys (1988), from Habatat to the Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Collection gift. Record

Laura Donefer, Yellow Heart Amulet Basket. Provenance: Habatat Gallery Michigan, about 2015; gift to the museum, 2021. Record

Martin Janecký, Juggler 216-54, acquired from Habatat Galleries Michigan in 2011, then given to the museum. Record

Therman Statom, Chair, bought at Habatat’s Masterworks auction in Royal Oak, April 24, 2008, and later given to the museum. Record

Works by Dale Chihuly, Pavel Hlava and Caterina Urrata Weintraub, acquired from Habatat’s 50th International in 2022.

Sibylle Peretti’s twelve-panel wall relief After the Flood Before the Storm, a Habatat artist. Announcement

Arcus III, commissioned from the artist through Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, by collector Daphne Farago in 1994, and given to the museum by bequest in 2017. Record

A work given in 1993 by Mary Beth Coulter-Rhodes, Lorna and Aaron Rhodes, and Habatat/Shaw Gallery. Record

Collection records for works by William Morris, Michael Glancy and Emily Brock list their exhibition at Habatat. Toledo is also where the Studio Glass Movement began, in Harvey Littleton’s 1962 workshops. Record

A gift from Corey Hampson: a sculpture by Karen LaMonte, donated to the museum’s permanent collection. The museum also hosted the Habatat award winners in 2007, and its collection includes work by Habatat artist John Miller. Record

Where Michigan Glass Month began: Ferdinand Hampson’s jurying of a glass exhibition at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association led to a joint spring exhibition and the governor’s 1981 proclamation. Habatat later co-curated Clearly Sculpture with the Center, and Glass Month programs brought exhibitions such as The Italian Influence on Contemporary American Glass (2002). Habatat history

Habatat was instrumental in facilitating the donation of the Bruce and Ann Bachmann Collection, the core of the museum’s contemporary studio glass and of the Davidson-Gerson Modern Glass Gallery, which opened in 2016. Corey has also given work to the museum. Habatat artist Shelley Muzylowski Allen has also been an artist in residence there. Gallery

Habatat Gallery Michigan is a sponsor of the museum’s Fluent Steps project. The museum’s team toured Habatat with Aaron Schey in 2024 and showed Cheryl Derricotte’s work courtesy of Habatat. Visit

Habatat’s 2012 retrospective for the 50th anniversary of Studio Glass in America drew nearly 400,000 visitors; Ferdinand Hampson lectured there in 2026. Lecture

Studio Glass: The 50th Year Celebration with Habatat, 2012, and a Habatat Glass Month program in 1999. News

Habatat co-founder Thomas Boone oversaw the refurbishment of the Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass. Article

Recent jurors have come from the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass (2024), the Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University and the Glick Center for Glass (2025), the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Imagine Museum (2022).

Habatat Michigan moderated a panel at the AACG’s 2012 celebration of 50 years of studio glass, and AACG’s Artist of the Month profiles name Habatat as the representing gallery for Emily Brock, Michael Behrens, Vivian Wang, Tim Tate and Marc Petrovic, and Wilfried Grootens. AACG

Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, exhibited as a visiting gallery at GlassWeekend ’15 and ’17, the biennial run by WheatonArts and the AACG to fund the Creative Glass Center of America fellowships and museum exhibitions. GlassWeekend ’17

Lists Habatat’s Glass Coast Weekend 2026 at Ringling College, curated by Habatat, and covers Habatat in The Scene: Craft in Detroit and Global Vision. Listing

The Alliance’s 2025 craft calendar features Habatat’s Glass53 in Royal Oak. Newsletter

Tim Tate’s The Blood of the Covenant, cast in lead crystal at Berengo Studio, was shown in the central chamber of Glasstress at the State Hermitage Museum beside Ai Weiwei. The work is now part of Imagining Utopia, the tour Corey directs. Work

In the Society’s profile, Tim Tate names Habatat in Detroit first among the galleries he works with. Profile

The school’s journal keeps a running Habatat file: its artists in the 42nd International, Tim Tate and Michael Janis at Habatat and Habatat Prime Chicago, the Janis/Porto exhibition, and the full Glass53 invitation list. Article

CCS glass head Kim Harty curated StreetKraft at Habatat in 2018, an exhibition listed by the American Craft Council; University of Michigan–Dearborn seminars pair visits to the CCS glass studios with Habatat. ACC listing

Habatat sponsored the 5th Michigan Regional Glass Exhibition, curated by Albert Young of Michigan’s oldest independent glassblowing school.

Visiting-artist biographies for Jason Chacravarty, Dean Allison and Alex Bernstein name Habatat Michigan as their gallery. Biography

Represented by Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, for over 30 years; a 2025 retrospective, My Life, at Habatat. AACG

Represented by Habatat Royal Oak; solo shows Solid Thoughts (2017) and ADRIFT (2022); Collector’s Award at the 46th International and the Fort Wayne Museum Award at the 42nd. AACG

Represented by Habatat Michigan; Habatat Internationals from the 44th to the 51st, solo shows from 2012, and Shanghai Tiger in the Smithsonian. AACG

Represented by Habatat Galleries of Royal Oak; Tate’s resume lists Habatat shows across 2008–2020. AACG

Represented by Habatat Royal Oak; solo show Dimensions (2021) and the 51st International. AACG

Habatat Invitationals in Pontiac and Royal Oak from the late 1990s, Habatat Chicago, and Habatat’s 2001 exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai. Biography

Habatat Internationals from the 29th (Pontiac, 1998) onward, and a 2006 solo show at Habatat Royal Oak. Resume

Jurors’ awards at Habatat’s International in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Resume

Habatat Internationals from the 37th, a 2013 Award of Excellence, and the 52nd International in 2024. Resume

Jurors’ Award at the 41st Habatat International, 2013. CV

The 43rd Habatat International (2015) and Habatat’s booth at SOFA Chicago. Biography

Habatat’s 2017 International; later acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass. Resume

Award winner at the 34th (2006) and 38th (2010) Internationals; Award of Excellence, 2011. Resume

His first exhibition was held at Habatat; a 30-year retrospective followed at Habatat Royal Oak in 2022. Biography

A 2016 solo show at Habatat, Confluence at Habatat Detroit in 2023, and Habatat’s Next Generation Glass. Resume

Awards of Excellence at Habatat’s annual award exhibitions, 2006 and 2007.

Represented by Habatat in Michigan, Florida and Illinois, alongside Heller Gallery, New York.

Exhibiting at Habatat Royal Oak for more than a decade, including Spirit Into Matter (2015). Biography

Brachlow: the 50th and 51st Internationals and Habatat at SOFA Chicago. Callan: eXpose at Habatat (2013) and Interspace, courtesy of Habatat, at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art (2026). Resume

Trenchard’s solo show Figures of Note at Habatat Detroit (2022); Popelka in Habatat’s 2020 West Palm Beach exhibition. Studio

Artists whose biographies record exhibitions with Habatat’s Florida galleries, part of the Habatat history before the Florida gallery became a separate business.

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