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Since 1996, The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass has hosted the more than 40 Artists-in-Residence listed below, giving emerging artists the opportunity to immerse themselves fully in their work without the distractions of everyday life.
This all-expense-paid residency grants access to all of the resources the Museum has to offer; from its vast collection of research materials in the Rakow Library, to the state-of-the-art glassmaking facility at The Studio, to the Museum's inspiring collection of glass art and history.
2012
Anna Boothe has been working with glass for more than 30 years. She is “curious about the relationships between our internal reactions and external projections, and ultimately, how we communicate with each other on conscious and subconscious levels...
Nancy Cohen’s works are comprised of many mediums: handmade paper, found objects, resin and, for the past 10 years, glass. She chooses a basic form and, using it repetitively, transforms the object into rays of morphed forms that crawl across the...
Laura Donefer has used glass as her primary medium for more than 30 years, combining it with diverse materials. She was trained as a glass artist at Sheridan College School of Craft and Design. Later, she taught at Sheridan, in addition to Espace...
Andrew Erdos’ work is pop, sarcastic, and humorous, with a hint of social commentary. He says, “I like taking objects that we are comfortable with—like a human’s reaction to animals—and exploring how we interact with them. In my work, there is a...
Mathieu Grodet is a French-born artist living and working in Canada. He creates thin and elegant glass objects in classic Venetian style, engraved with imagery that addresses modern-day ideas and issues. Says Grodet, “Several themes are recurrent: a...
Swedish artist Ingalena Klenell has been working with glass since 1976. Her work explores the ideas of fragility and vulnerability, both in the material of glass and in life itself. Klenell sees glass as a way of investigating the limits of...
Jeff Mack's career as a glassmaker has offered him a variety of opportunities, from factory production to working and studying with world-renowned glass artists. He will be collaborating with Laura Donefer as part of the Instructor...
Joanna Manousis holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Alfred University, NY, and a B.F.A. in Glass from The University of Wolverhampton, England. She has worked, studied, and taught in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and has received a...
Marta Ramírez is a glass artist and industrial designer who teaches at the Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia. Her work is clearly inspired by water, and she explores the similarities of this element and the material of glass through her art...
Norwood Viviano uses digital 3D modeling and printing technology in combination with the casting process to create his sculptural works. Two recent bodies of works, Cities: Departure and Deviation and Kohler Pile, address power dynamics between...
2011
Nisha Bansil and Dan Mirer collaborated to combine the techniques of photo sandblasting and blown glass, and developed new methods to create bubble trap imagery. With Mirer’s strengths in craftsmanship and technical innovation and Bansil’s emphasis...
A Berlin-based artist, Beckh has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe. Her work invites viewers to disconnect from the noise and chaos of everyday life and to find light, tranquility, and contemplation. Beckh used her residency at...
Adrianne Evans draws inspiration from the complex mechanisms that shape the natural world. She received her B.F.A. from Alfred University, where she studied sculpture and glass, and a master's degree in glass sculpture from the Rhode Island School...
Susan Liebold began her work and studies in Germany at the Burg Giebichenstein. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Studio and the Gewerbemuseum Art and Design College. Liebold often integrates her flameworked pieces into the environment, at...
Beth Lipman is known for her works in glass that generally pay homage to still-life paintings from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Continuing her exploration of material culture as a means to understand desire and consumption, she investigated and...
McNeel created work at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass in 2011 as part of a joint Artists-in-Residence partnership with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. A sculpture professor for 20 years, McNeel is inspired by the formal symmetries of...
Dan Mirer develops a dialogue between design and craft, to create designs that combine processes. Mirer makes elegantly shaped vessels, including a unique series of functional and decorative hand-blown bottles. His work has been shown at UrbanGlass...
Min Jeong Song is a Korean artist based in London who was an Artist in Residence at The Studio in 2011. Her recent body of work investigates how attributes of glass can be used to create eclectic and ambiguous objects that fall between conventional...
2010
Eliza Au’s work explores the use of metal, glass, paper, and wax. Traditionally, her work is ceramic based and uses a slipcasting method. She obtained her degrees from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and New York State College of Ceramics at...
Slate Grove and Leo Tecosky worked together in an Instructor Collaborative Residency. They explored their work from the dichotomy of their own very different life experiences. Tecosky, who has taught at The Studio, is influenced by hip hop and...
K Hyewook Huh is a glass artist who works in Seoul, Korea. Her work is an interpretation of her environment, as well as of the “emotional ups and downs that humans feel within their environment.” She uses a variety of glassmaking techniques, from...
Gayla Lee creates and sells glass jewelry and kiln-formed glassware, incorporating murrine (slices of glass cane) to create complex patterns. Lee loves the ability of glass to be “formed into precise geometric patterns and organic representations of...
Marie Retpen is a Danish glass designer and maker who focuses on aesthetic and experimentation, turning everyday forms into surreal sculptures which look as though they are partially melted. The works are often displayed on furniture in a theatrical...
Erica Rosenfeld, a freelance glassmaker and member of the “Burnt Asphalt Family,” teaches glass fusing and roll-ups at glass studios and craft institutions, including The Studio and UrbanGlass. She has assisted Klaus Moje and has studied with Scott...
Leo Tecosky’s art focuses on traditional glassblowing and neon bending techniques. He also explores the screen printing process and found-art sculptural installations. He attended New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and most...
2009
Studio instructor and flameworking artist, Matt Eskuche, has chose two artists, Chris McElroy and Kaori Koike, to collaborate with him to create work that explores the ideas of overconsumption and wastefulness. The work consisted of flameworked...
Ana Golici is a mixed-media artist, best known for her prints inspired by art, science, nature and photography. One of her series centers around prints of a flea, enlarged 750 times its original size using a scanning electron microscope. During her...
Czech artist Lenka Novakova explores light through sculpture. She uses cast glass, film and ephemeral media (such as air or water) in her work, creating environments that explore issues of visual perception. She used her residency at The Studio to...
Mielle Riggie works with both the strength and fragility of glass to illustrate the dynamics of human emotion or conditions. In her residency at The Studio, she created cast glass sculpture amplifying elements in nature, such as leaves or roots, and...
Kazue Taguchi was born in Japan, but lives and works in Berlin. She received her M.F.A. with a concentration in glass in 2007 from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has also studied at the Barcelona Glass Foundation in Spain and Joshibi...
2008
This Illinois State University graduate and former Studio student looked at the Museum’s collection, Rakow Research Library source materials, and award-winning glass architecture as inspiration for his March Residency. Perez created a mural of glass...
Perkins lives and makes her work in Bumpass, VA, on a farm that has been in her family for seven generations. Her works, which have been published in New Glass Review, “fuse…characters, places and sentiments with new, fantastic handmade glass...
Kait Rhoads received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and has taught at the New Orleans School of GlassWorks. She lives in Seattle, where she is a member of the faculty at the Pratt Fine Arts Center. She has also worked as an...
Amy Rueffert is an independent glass artist residing in Seattle, WA. She earned a B.F.A. degree from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Since then she has pursued independent studies at Ohio State University, Pilchuck Glass School, and Haystack...
Aric Snee has worked glass in studio, academic, and factory environments, and sees a rich connection in all of these experiences. After studying glassworking at Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD, and the Canberra School of Art in Australia, Aric...
2007
Heike Brachlow received her BA from the University of Wolverhampton and her MA and PhD from the Royal College of Art in London, studying color, form, and light in solid transparent glass. Her work can be found in the Glasmuseum Hentrich, European...
Alex Brand, who received his B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, has been working with glass (and making a living selling his glass) for more than 30 years. He has shown his work at museum shows, including the Smithsonian and...
In his April 2007 residency, Moshe Bursuker explored the relationship between glass and photography, and worked to integrate the two media in a way that “enhances both forms of artistic expression. He believes that “glass has the ability to take...
Jamie Harris is a glass artist and designer living in New York City. A graduate of Brown University, Harris has studied at many of the most renowned glass schools in the country, including The Pilchuck Glass School, the Rhode Island School of Design...
Jocelyne Prince is fascinated by the artistic possibilities of fractured glass. She used her residency as an opportunity to further her experimentation with manipulating and controlling thermal-heat related fractures in hot glass and studying what...
2006
Holm, of Arhus, Denmark, used her residency at The Studio to add to her series Reminisce, free-standing glass stones which offer a visual and tactile experience. Twenty of the pieces Holm produced became part of a major exhibition of Danish...
From Tokyo, Tada strives to preserve memories of her family and childhood through her work. Often using letters, photographs and small objects, Tada features glass containers to display her life’s memorabilia. “The viewers have their own personal...
Thorsteinsdóttir, of Bergen, Norway, spent a lot of time thinking about the art of glass blinds since her teaching assistant experience at The Studio the previous summer. Thorsteinsdóttir says, “Blinds of glass is a fascinating thought exercise as...
2005
Frances Federer began her studies at Camberwell School of Art at sixteen, graduating five years later with a degree in book illustration. Later, in partnership with Peter Binnington, a painter and fine craftsman, she opened a business in London...
Silvia Levenson believes her work is an expression of her soul. She uses glass not for its natural beauty, but for its potential as a narrative medium. Born in Argentina, Levenson has been living in Italy since 1981. She received the Rakow...
Rosin undertook a project during her residency that she described as being “inspired by the vegetal-animal forms of the bushes.” It consisted of two hanging luminous formations. The “twin” shapes, one crystal clear and one amethyst, will be...
Rubinstein used his residency to work on Seascape and Landscape vessels using colored canes to enhance light transmission and the illusion of suspension. Constrained by his own equipment, Rubinstein was enthusiastic about the opportunity to create...
Sayaka Suzuki, who is originally from Japan, received her B.F.A. in glass sculpture from Tulane University, and her M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She is currently a full-time adjunct faculty member at VCU, teaching glass...
2004
Giusti completed a series entitled “Harbinger” during her November residency, which consisted of assorted sizes of glass bells turned upside and spilling forth fluids like a fountain. A recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim...
O’Mara explored glass as both a medium and a method. She pursued two projects during her May residency. The first explored the potential for using optic fiber and light in large, outdoor installations. The second used molten glass to burn drawings...
Helen Schell has been an artist in residence at The Studio, as well as at schools in Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Canada. She studied glassmaking at the University of Sutherland and the Dudley International Glass Centre. Her...
Treg Silkwood is an independent artist in the San Francisco Bay area, received his B.F.A. from Alfred University. He also studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and did graduate work at Illinois State University. Silkwood has taught...
In her May residency, Vasek created large colorful glass panel reliefs of organic tidal imagery, and will cast glass shapes inspired by tidal imagery. She used plaster molds of wave-created images found on tidal flats in the Florida Keys. Active in...