-Exhibits in solo and group exhibitions as well as collections of museums and art centers across the United States and abroad in Japan, Denmark, Norway, Turkey, Belgium and Poland -Produces rich, 4-dimensional sensory installations, absurdist performances and immersive experiences that optimistically examine the clumsiness of human behavior -Advocates and speaks on the value of a transdicisplinary practice and the power of cross-disciplinary problem solving -Acts as a catalyst for Art to proactively address social inequalities and perforate barriers between and within communities -Designs, invents and creates a range of sculptures, mechanisms, drawings, collages, prints and other works of mixed media art and design -Fabricates objects for artists and designers including Joe Davis, Nari Ward, Ian Burns, Paul Demarinas, John Roach, Assembly Designs, Le Le Dom Designs, Beth Lipman, Bob Campbell, Mark Zirpel, the De La Torre Brothers, James Rouvelle and Lili Maya
2019-Present Artistic Director: Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington
-Creates andGuides the current and future artistic programs (workshops, exhibitions residencies and outreach) at the school and exhibition space in Seattle. -Serves as staff Liason to the DEAI committee of Board members and outside professionals. -Working closely with all stakeholders on plans to greatly enlarge and enrich our targeted outreach programs serving Indigenous Artists and youth from underserved communities -Collaborates with fellow directors and staff to develop and communicate our ever-evolving responses to the ongoing Corona Virus pandemic -Reconceptualized the scholarship program from a purely merit-based process to include a need based avenue for applicants regardless of their progress along their development path -Producing the most diverse program of teachers and artist in residence in the school’s 50 year history -Engaged new partner organizations nationwide to recruit and support a more representative student body -Organized and Co-Curated an expansive series of traveling exhibitions examining multiple aspects of the school’s 50 year history in partnership with local, national and international venues -Supports development staff in identifying and pursuing relevant donors and grants to support expanded programs -Manages with empathy a program and campus staff through a challenging shift to remote working and task shifting -Laid Groundwork for several important permanent artworks to inspire creativity on our campus into the future
2014-2019 Director of Education UrbanGlass,Brooklyn, NY
-Built a 1.1-million-dollar education program from scratch in 5 years that combines university classes, masters to introductory workshops and community and socially motivated outreach programs that create a vibrant and supportive studio community -Developed and managed a talented education support staff that has grown from zero to four personnel -Created and administered a scholarship program that grants $200,000/year in financial aid -Presented over 300 classes to over 2000 students a year, ranging from craft workshops on material and technical introduction to interdisciplinary and experimental thematic investigations -Partnered with the NYC Department of Aging to design a grant-supported program that teaches mosaics in under-served senior centers-Mentored an expanded and reconceptualized program to teach bead making and professional development skills to low-income women -Developed curriculum and manages relationships with over 120 university and organizational partners around the world -Designed and fostered a youth program which now works directly with four public and charter schools to provide innovative arts programming, as well as producing a series of intergenerational workshops and camps where families can learn together -Initiated future programs with partner organizations in various stages of development to use the glass studio as a learning and healing environment for veterans, ex-cons, andautistic youth and young adults -Generated groundbreaking interdisciplinary programing through partnerships with museums (MoMA, the Met, Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Math), technology centers (Pioneerworks, Shapeways, NYC Resistor), and cultural organizations (Brooklyn Public Library and both the Brooklyn and New York Botanical Gardens)
2009-Present Curator
-Assembles groups of diverse artists into accessible and participatory art experiences that explore urgent social topics through non-linear pathways, encouraging independent thought and solution-seeking -Writes critically about these shows and others for digital and print media -Collaborates with venues to design and produce innovative promotions, show text, documentation and exhibition catalogues -Mentors a large number of artists and students through studio visits, technical and professional practice counsel and direct network and opportunity building -Serves as a juror for a variety of notable artist residencies and awards
2018-2019 Director of Exhibitions, Agnes Varis Art Center, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY
-Set program priorities and selects curatorial partners for an annual program of ten exhibitions and numerous public events -Invited and manages juries for all open calls, residencies, and artist opportunities with an emphasis on constantly infusing the organization with fresh outside perspectives -Worked with Art Center manager to oversee the logistical needs of the shows as well as managing relationships with curators and artists
2017-2019 Board of Directors Program Committee, Ox-Bow School of Arts, Saugatuck, MI
-Advises the program director on current educational programming and helps with teacher network development -Assists in long-term curricular planning to take into account exciting developments in the field
EDUCATION
2007-2009 Rhode Island School of Design
Masters of Fine Arts with full Honors.
2000-2003 Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Tech University
B.F.A. in Crafts, Minors in Art History and Biology; Graduated Cum Laude.
1994-1998 Dartmouth College
Honors B.S. in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology; Graduated Cum Laude Concentration in Studio Art: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture; Foreign Study Programs in Kenya, Costa Rica, and Jamaica
1999-2012 Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Corning Studio, Appalachian Center for Craft, and Penland School of Crafts
Workshops in various glass techniques with instructors: Jiri Harcuba, CUD collective, Joe Cariati, Ken Rinaldo, Jeremy Bert, Robert Carlson, Catherine Grey, Boyd Sugiki, James Mongrain, Loren Stump, and The De la Torre Brothers
EXHIBITIONS
2021
Light, Group Show, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA (planned) Das Fernglas, Digital Format Art Subscription (planned)
2020
Chroma 2020, Group Show, The Gallery at Fort Houston, Nashville, TN Sztuka na Zamowienie, Solo Show, BWA Mobile Gallery response to the Coronavirus Pandemic, Wroclaw, Poland
2019
Invasive Species, Solo show, BWA SIC! Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland Secret Admirer, Group show, Pilchuck Gallery, Seattle, WA Let Them Eat Cake II, Group show, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
2018
An Anthropomorphic Love Story for the Anthropocene, Solo performance, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA First Encounters, Group Show, West Harlem Art Fund, Governor’s Island, NY ON! Pushing Back The Darkness, Group Show, South Shore Art Center, Cohhasset, MA Slouching Towards Sunshine, Group Show, Work Release Gallery, Norfolk, VA
2017
Vivisection, Solo Show, Work Program Architects Gallery, Norfolk, VA Snuffy Sneaks Away, Solo Show, Agnes Varis Art Center, Brooklyn, NY The Internal Machine, Group show, New York Center for Book Arts, NYC Clue, Group show, The Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016
32°: The Art of Winter, Group show, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT Where Abouts, Group show curated by Hyperopia, GlazenHuis, Lommel, Belgium Paracosm, Group show, Norte Maar Gallery, Queens, NY
2015
Material Location, Group show, Agnes Varis Art Center, Brooklyn, NY The Pink Show, Group show, Lorimoto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Creativity Ascertained, Group show, American Museum of Glass, Millville, NJ AGLOW, Group exhibition of neon art, Work|Release, Norfolk VA Inert Gas, Experimental neon show, Norfolk VA Spectrum, Group show KALEID gallery, San Jose, CA
2014
Obsolesence, Group show, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2013
Man’s Best Friend, Solo show, TIGA Gallery, Toyama, Japan Grand Point Weird, Music and Video Art Festival, Burlington VT Creative Glass Center of America Alumni Show, Wheaton Arts Gallery, NJ
2012
Wet og Wild, Collaborative solo show, S12 Galleri, Bergen, Norway European Glass Context Residency Show, Exhibition with Matt Szosz, The Royal Danish Academy of Design, Bornholm, Denmark Brown Bag Digital Art Exhibit, Group Show, Superlumenary, Philadelphia, PA The Medical Show, Group Show, Indiana University Gallery, Kokomo, IA Great Grand Children of the Atomic Age, Robert Madsen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011
Bienvenue, Curator and Exhibitor, The Hatchatory, Philadelphia, PA The Chrysler Museum Glass Studio Grand Opening, Glass Performance, Norfolk, VA
2010
Until We Meet Again, Solo Show, Flux Art Space, Philadelphia, PA Cirque De Verre, Performance, Goggleworks, Reading, PA
2009
The Thin Veneer, Curator and exhibitor, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI God Save the Love Nut, Solo Show, Machines with Magnets Gallery, Pawtucket, RI Whenever Wednesday, Group Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA RISD Graduate Exhibition, Group Show, Providence Convention Center, Providence, RI Annual Faculty Exhibition, Group Show, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA The Glass Triennial, Group Show, Woods Gerry gallery, Providence, RI Reflections, Group Show, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2008
Body Ritual, Group Show, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI Animata, Group Show, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI Cirque De Verre, Performance, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
2007
Affect/Effect, a Collaboration of Glass and Image, The Museum of Northwest Art, WA 28th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Group Show, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
2006
For What Its Worth, Solo Show, The Water Tower Art Museum, Louisville, KY Summer Faculty Show, Group Show, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN
2005
Fall Faculty Show, Group Show, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC Glass Weekend ’05 Retrospective Show of CGAC Fellows, Wheaton Arts Gallery, NJ
2003
Who’s Watching Who? Solo B.F.A. Show, Gallery One, Smithville, TN Glassmakers, A retrospective of Glass at Penland, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2002
Craft Forms 2002, Group Show, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
COLLECTIONS
Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Toyama, Japan Joan Mitchell Foundation Center, New Orleans, LA Tacoma Museum of Glass Art, Tacoma, WA The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey Museum of American Glass, Contemporary Collection, NJ The Royal Danish Academy of Design, Bornholm, Denmark S12 Galleri, Bergen, Norway The Glass Studio at the Chrysler Museum of Art
CURATORIAL WORK
2024
Half Full and Rising: Project Advisor, Getty Pacific Standard Time Art and Science Initiative, Los Angeles, CA
2023
New Connections: Co-curator, The National Nordic Museum, Seatte, WA (planned) Explosive Talent: Co-curator, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland (planned) Ivory: Project Curator for Joe Rossano, location undetermined (planned)
2021
What Are You Looking At? The New Glass: Co-curator, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA (planned) Explosive Talent: Co-curator, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA (planned) Builders: Curator, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA (planned) The Science Art Interface: Moderator of Digital Panel featuring Joe Rossano, Jack Tseng, Alayne Reesberg, Ben Marwick and Ivan Carter
2020
Vanceva World of Color Awards: Juror for International Architectural Design Corporation The Italian Symbiosis: Moderator of Digital Panel for Intersect Art Fair Public Exposure: The Function of Public Art: Moderator of Digital Panel featuring the De La Torre Brothers and Tommy Gregory Reilly Donovan: Glass Meets Tech: Artist Interview for Glass Art Society Digital Conference Guest Evaluator, Season Two Of Netflix Special Blown Away Portfolio Reviewer: Glass Art Society Digital Conference Autonoma Award: Juror for prize awarded during Venice Glass Week, Venice, Italy
2019
The MFA Exhibition: Curator, Agnes Varis Art Center, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY The De La Torre Brothers: High Noon: Curator, Agnes Varis Art Center, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY Future Trends in Glass: Docents Lecture,Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
2018
Symbiotic Spheres: Intersections of Glass, Art and Science: Curator, American Museum of Glass, Millville, NJ Pushing Buttons: Curator, Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn NY NYC Scholastic Awards: Art Juror Glass Art Society: Conference Scholarship Juror
2017
Intrinsic Properties, Inherent Vice: Invited Opening speaker, Belconnen Art Centre, Canberra, Australia Performance Anxiety: Panel moderator, Glass Art Society Conference, Norfolk, VA International Approaches to Glass Curriculum: Panel moderator, 2017 Academic Symposium, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY Academic Symposium: Juror forRobert Minkoff Foundation, NYC
2016
The New Glass Review: Invited Juror for Corning Museum of Glass The New Classics: Co-Curator with Rachel Rader, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY Franchise Program: Juror, Apex Art, NYC CGCAfellowship: Juror, Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ The MFA Exhibition: Juror, Urban Glass, NYC
2015
2015 Academic Symposium: Juror forRobert Minkoff Foundation, NYC Glass Art Society Student Exhibition: Invited Juror CGCAfellowship: Juror, Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ
2014
The MFA Exhibition: Juror, Urban Glass, NYC
2011
Bienvenue: Co-Curator with Jenna Effrein, The Hatchatory, Philadelphia, PA
2009
The Thin Veneer: Curator, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
2006
Penland Core Student Show: Invited Art Critic, Penland School of Crafts
RESIDENCIES
2021
Artist in residence: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel (planned) Visiting Artist: China Academy of Art (planned)
2020
Visiting Artist: University of Washington 4D Department (planned)
2019
Visiting Artist: Tyler School of Art Visiting Artist: Virginia Commonwealth University
2018
Artist in residence: BWA City Galleries, Wroclaw, Poland Artist in residence: The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design Wroclaw, Poland
2017
Visiting Artist: AUS Glass Conference, Canberra, Australia Visiting Artist: The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wroclaw, Poland Invited speaker and Demonstrating Artist: The High Temperature Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
2016
Visiting Artist: University of Louisville
2015
Visiting Artist: Rhode Island School of Design Demonstrating Artist: Glass Weekend at Wheaton Arts
2014
Visiting Artist: Penland School of Craft Spring Concentration
2013
Artist in residence: Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Japan Visiting Artist Colloquium Speaker: University of Wisconsin Visiting Artist: University of Maine Farmington Visiting Artist: Penland School of Crafts
2012
Fellowship: Contemporary Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts European Glass Context
2012
Artist in Residence: The Royal Danish Academy of Design Artist in Residence: S 12 Galleri in Bergen Norway Visiting Artist: Rhode Island School of Design Visiting Artist Lecture: Norwegian National Academy of the Arts in Bergen Visiting Artist: Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Tech University
2011
Visiting Artist Lecture: Tyler School of Art at Temple University Visiting Artist: Ball State University Visiting Artist: Salem Community College
2010
Visiting Artist: Alfred University
2009
Artist in Residence: Tacoma Museum of Glass Visiting Artist: Art Academy of Cincinnati
2007
Professional Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School Visiting Artist, Tacoma Museum of Glass
2006
Hauberg Fellowship: Pilchuck Glass School Visiting Artist: Bowling Green State University Artist in Residence: Elsewhere Artist’s Collaborative
2004
Fellowship: Contemporary Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts
HONORS & PUBLICATIONS
2020
Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Magazine, Feature online interview Dartmouth College Alumni Magazine, Print feature as distinguished alumni
2019
Glass Art Society Journal, Feature Interview on Subversive Art Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Magazine, digital profile
2018
American Craft Magazine, Spotlight spread on Symbiotic Spheres Hyperallergic,Pushing Buttons featured in top 15 Brooklyn Exhibitions of 2018 Glass Magazine, Review of Symbiotic Spheres New Glass Review 39, Featured as Juror’s selection Los Angeles Review of Books, Featured in Review of Internal Machine by Megan Liberty, Jan 18th TransBorder Art TV, Panelist forConversation with Artists: Art and the Ineffable
2017
Radio Wroclaw, Artist profile Interview, Wroclaw, Poland Exhibition review of Ontonogenesis, authored for GLASS Quarterly, Issue 147 Brooklyn Rail, Featured in Review of Internal Machine by Tom McGlynn, Dec 13th
2016
New Glass Review 38, Juror’s statement and selections
2013
Neues Glass Winter 2013, Jutta Cuny-Franz Award, selected artist New Glass Review 34, published by Corning Museum of Glass Promotion to Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts New Glass Review 33, published by Corning Museum of Glass
2012
Professional Development Grant, University of the Arts John Price Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass School
2011
Interview in Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet, published by Urban Glass Nominated for Saxe Award, Pilchuck Glass School
2009
Graduate Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
2008
William Morris Scholarship Award, Pilchuck Glass School Conference Scholarship Award, Glass Art Society Graduate Performance Fellowship, RISD Division of Graduate Studies Friends of Glass Scholarship Award, RISD Glass Department
2007
Best of Show Juror's Award, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick Scholarship Award, Pilchuck Glass School
2003
Pilchuck Partnership Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass School Tennessee Tech University, Grant for individual research in Seattle, WA2002-2003 Glass Art Society, Student Representative on Board of Directors
2002
The Harvey & Bess Littleton Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts The Bacchanal Scholarship, Awarded by the Arts Faculty at Tennessee Tech University John Marvin Byrom Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Tennessee Tech University Tennessee Tech University, Grant for individual research in Amsterdam, Netherland
TEACHING
Academic:
2009-2013
Senior Lecturer: Craft Department, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Lecturer: Glass Art Department, Salem Community College, Carneys Point, NJ
2009
Instructor: "Hot Glass Sculpture Class" Rhode Island School Of Design, RI
Workshops:
2021
“Conceptual Approaches to Glass” China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China (planned)
2019
“Weird Works: Strategies for a New Glass” Ox-bow School of Art, MI
2018
“Silicate Soundscapes: Approaches to Sound-Based and Installation Artwork”: UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY
2017
“Organic Mechanix: Systems Based Approaches in Glass “: Ox-bow School of Art, MI “Social intelligence” Australian National University, Canberra ,Australia “New Directions in Glass” The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wroclaw, Poland
2016
“Growing Weird” Pilchuck Glass School, WA
2014
”A Finely Crafted Idea: Strategies for Conceptual Work in Glass” Pilchuck Glass School, WA “Vitreous Collage: Silk-Screening Techniques in Glass” The YaYa Creative Glass Center, New Orleans, LA
2013
“Micro to Macro” The YaYa Creative Glass Center, New Orleans, LA
2012
“Glass Comes Alive” The YaYa Creative Glass Center, New Orleans, LA
2009
"Body of Glass" Pilchuck Glass School, WA
2006
“Glass as a Sculptural Media” The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey “Glass as a Sculptural Media” Appalachian Center for Craft, TN Workshop TA For Simone Fetzer: Bildwerk Fraunau, Germany
2005
“Fall Concentration” Penland School of Crafts Workshop TA For the De La Torre Brothers: Bildwerk Fraunau, German
