Jim Oliveira is a writer, artist, curator, and expert in the field of 20th century Italian glass. As a private dealer for over twenty years, Jim has helped build some the most important private and public collections of Italian glass in the world. Jim has also written extensively on the subject of Murano glass and works a curator for the Wright auction house in Chicago, where he has directed their Important Italian Glass series of auctions for the past ten years. Jim is also a Fellow at the Corning Museum of Glass.