Ten lamps and windows from Tiffany Studios came to the Zanesville Museum of Art from Queens, New York, and opened to the public on October 22. Their flowers are made of glass: lilies, poppies, apple blossom, dogwood and peony. The show is called Tiffany's Gardens in Glass. It runs at 620 Military Road until January 9, 2027, and admission is free.
Two of the best dates in the season happen away from the museum. On November 5 and November 14, the ZMA Talks series meets inside two Zanesville churches, Putnam Presbyterian on Woodlawn Avenue and Market Street Baptist on North 6th Street. Both churches are opening their buildings for these programs. A Tiffany window that has been in a Zanesville church for generations gets more meaning when you see it in the same weeks as ten Tiffany works on loan from New York.
What came from Queens, and what was already here
The traveling exhibition was organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in Queens. According to the ZMA, it includes ten Tiffany Studios botanical lamps and windows and nine nature-study photographs. Tiffany Favrile pottery on loan from Lillian Nassau Galleries in New York is also part of the show. The Neustadt's own exhibition page describes the show the same way, as ten works plus a selection of nature-study photographs.
The museum hung it beside a show from its own collection called Living with Tiffany. That one covers the smaller Tiffany pieces made for everyday use: desk accessories, desk lamps, salt cellars and vases. The two shows end at very different times. Living with Tiffany opened September 23, 2026, and stays up until September 17, 2027. The borrowed garden lamps leave after January 9. Visits before January will catch both shows.
In WHIZ's October 23 report on the opening, ZMA Executive Director Laine Snyder said the collaboration with the Neustadt took about three years to put together and called it a "labor of love." In the same story she connected the Favrile pottery to Zanesville's own pottery tradition.
November 5 on Woodlawn Avenue
The first off-site talk is Thursday, November 5, from 6 to 7 p.m. at Putnam Presbyterian Church, 467 Woodlawn Avenue. It's called "Tiffany Among Us." Muskingum County History Curator Mitch Taylor will cover the church's history and its stained-glass collection, which includes one window designed by Tiffany Studios. The ZMA presents the evening as a chance to see these works "in their original setting."
The date is unusual for this building. According to Visit Zanesville's listing for Putnam Presbyterian, group tours need an advance reservation by phone. On November 5 you register through the museum and walk in with everyone else. The window you see there was installed in the church. The lamps at the museum were shipped in for a few months.
November 14 on North 6th Street
Nine days later the series goes downtown. On Saturday, November 14, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., Market Street Baptist Church at 140 N. 6th Street hosts "An Extraordinary Stained-Glass Collection." According to the ZMA, the church has more stained-glass windows than any other church in Ohio.
The speaker is Crystal Engle. She is a church member, youth choir director and organist, and she serves on the church's stained-glass preservation fundraising committee. The program covers the windows' history and craftsmanship and the work being done to preserve them for future generations. The museum asks people to register by November 13.
The Market Street Baptist windows are not described as Tiffany work. They are in this series because the ZMA built its Tiffany season around Zanesville's own stained glass as well as the loan.
There's a scheduling catch on November 14. The ZMA's Saturday guided Tiffany tour runs from 2 to 3 p.m. that day, and the church program begins at 3 on North 6th Street. If you want both, the open Saturdays later in the month are a better choice for the museum tour.
The season by date
Every museum program below is tied to the two Tiffany exhibitions. You'll also find the Tiffany objects in the museum's short "ZMA Puzzler!" and "Minute with a Masterpiece" sessions.
| Date | Program | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu, Oct 29, 6 p.m. | A Book ApART on Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland | ZMA | Free, open to the public |
| Thu, Nov 5, 6 p.m. | ZMA Talks: Tiffany Among Us | Putnam Presbyterian, 467 Woodlawn Ave. | Mitch Taylor |
| Sat, Nov 7, 1–4 p.m. | Stained-glass fusing workshop | ZMA | Members, $50 |
| Sat, Nov 14, 3 p.m. | ZMA Talks: Market Street Baptist | 140 N. 6th St. | Register by Nov 13 |
| Thu, Nov 19, 6 p.m. | ZMA Talks: Behind Gardens in Glass | ZMA | Neustadt curator Lindsy R. Parrott |
| Sun, Nov 22, 1–4 p.m. | Sunday Funday: Garden Glow! | ZMA | Free, all ages, no registration |
| Sat, Nov 28, 2 p.m. | Guided tour with docent Kathy Short | ZMA | Register by Nov 27 |
| Thu, Dec 3, 6 p.m. | ZMA Talks: Beyond Glass | ZMA | Laine Snyder |
| Sat, Dec 5, 1–4 p.m. | Fusing Fun! camp, ages 10–14 | ZMA | $25 members, $50 nonmembers |
| Sat, Dec 12, 1–4 p.m. | Color & Light Adventure! camp, ages 6–9 | ZMA | $25 members, $50 nonmembers |
Guided Tiffany tours also run at 2 p.m. on Saturdays, October 31, November 7, 14 and 21, and December 5. Each one covers both exhibitions.
Where the talks lead back to Zanesville
The church dates are the strongest part of the program, and the December 3 talk follows the same idea. Laine Snyder's "Beyond Glass: Tiffany, Zanesville & the Arts & Crafts Movement" places the borrowed work in local history. It takes up the same connection she drew for WHIZ between Tiffany's Favrile pottery and Zanesville's own pottery tradition. Registration is encouraged by December 2.
Before that, on November 19, Lindsy R. Parrott, executive director and curator of the Neustadt, will talk about how Gardens in Glass was put together. If you go to Woodlawn Avenue on November 5, hear the lender's curator on November 19 and come to Snyder's talk on December 3, you'll hear the exhibition explained by a county historian, by a curator from the collection that lent it and by the museum's director.
Most of the short object sessions are "ZMA Puzzler!" dates. In November they feature the Lemon Tree and Grape Vine window, the Pond Lily Library Lamp, a frog-and-lily-pad coupe and the Well by Fence window. In December they turn to the Apple Blossom, Daffodil, Dogwood and Peony lamps and a Chestnut Leaf vase. "Minute with a Masterpiece" comes once a month, with Favrile candlesticks on November 24 and Tiffany desk accessories on December 29.
Fitting a visit around the holidays
The museum keeps limited hours, and the holiday closures fall close to the program dates. According to the ZMA's visitor page:
- Regular hours: Wednesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday noon to 5 p.m. Thursday has the longest hours.
- Thanksgiving: closed November 25 and 26, open Friday, November 27. Out-of-town guests can visit that Friday and come back Saturday for the 2 p.m. tour on November 28.
- Christmas: closed December 24 and 25, open Saturday, December 26.
- New Year's: closed December 31 and January 1, open Saturday, January 2.
- Final day: Tiffany's Gardens in Glass closes Saturday, January 9, 2027. That leaves Saturday hours, noon to 5 p.m., for a last visit.
Saturday, December 12 has two events. The children's Color & Light camp runs at the museum from 1 to 4 p.m. From noon to 5 p.m., the Putnam Historic District holds "Holidays of Yesterday: Celebrating America's 250th!" According to Visit Zanesville's calendar, it includes decorated historic homes and businesses, music, refreshments, raffles and door prizes, with adult tickets at $15. Putnam Presbyterian is in the same part of town, so in one season you can see its Tiffany window during the November talk and come back a month later for the decorated houses around it.
Walking the Putnam Historic District that weekend or hearing about Putnam Presbyterian's window on November 5 may leave you curious about the older homes on those streets: when they were built, how they were preserved, what owning one involves. That's the kind of local conversation I enjoy. Reach out to Cory M Neville with your questions about Zanesville's historic homes. Let's Connect.
