SACRAMENTO, CA.- Next summer, the Crocker Art Museum will be one of more than 120 museums nationwide to mark the 50th anniversary of the studio art-glass movement in America. “Red Hot and Blown: Contemporary Glass from the Crocker’s Collection” brings together more than 20 works by some of America’s most well-known glass artists, including Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, Therman Statom, and Nancy Mee. The exhibit will be on view March 17 through September 23, 2012. Since the movement’s founding in the early 1960s, glass has emerged as a rich and diverse form of creative expression with vessels, sculptures, and everything in between being blown, cast, assembled, and painted. The Crocker’s exhibition includes all of these techniques, ranging from Lipofsky’s blown sculptures from the 1960s and Chihuly’s elaborate “Macchia Seaform Group” from the 1980s to more recently acquired sculptural works by Statom and Mee.