Current & Upcoming Artist Residencies
Current & Upcoming Artist Residencies
The Studio’s Residency programs – Artist-in-Residence at The Studio, David Whitehouse Artist Residency for Research, and Specialty Glass Residency – bring artists from around the world to Corning. The artists spend up to a month at The Studio trying new techniques in glass or enhancing their current work, or using the Museum’s vast resources to inspire and inform their practice.
Most Residents provide public lectures, either Lunchtime Lectures or Behind the Glass, about their work. All lectures are free; no reservations are required.
Residency programs at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass welcome six to 10 artists each year.
Jim Butler has always looked at the world with a sense of wonder and has found his voice as an artist as a result. Both a painter and a glassblower, Butler produces sculptural work that combines high-fire decals with blown glass forms to create...
Translated literally, the Japanese word tonbodama means “dragonfly ball.” Since 2000, flameworker Shinobu Kurosawa has been making tonbodama beads that depict traditional Japanese landscape and nature scenes in glass. Mountains rising beyond the...
Through playful forms, Pamela Sabroso’s collaborative work with Alison Siegel challenges common expectations of the possibilities of glass as a medium. Sabroso and Siegel are very good friends who encourage and inspire creativity in each other....
Alison Siegel’s collaborative work with Pamela Sabroso is inspired by nature, both real and imagined. Much of it is modeled off of tropical fruits, vegetables, sea life, or natural items foraged from local parks and vacant lots, such as tree bark,...
Utilizing digital 3-D computer modeling and printing technology in tandem with glassblowing and casting processes, Norwood Viviano creates work depicting population shifts tied to the dynamic between industry and community. “My material choices are...
Trained in geology, artist Sarah Briland creates fossils for the future. Using found objects from nature as well as disposable man-made objects as a base, she adds glass elements that resemble lichen, crystals, and other geological specimens....
One half of the duo that lead the Netherlands’ Atelier NL design studio, artist Nadine Sterk uses her work to explore the wealth of the earth and demonstrate the value of locally-sourced, raw materials. By analyzing the hidden stories of the earth,...
One half of the duo that leads the Netherlands’ Atelier NL design studio, designer Lonny van Ryswyck uses her work to explore the wealth of the earth and demonstrate the value of locally-sourced raw materials. By analyzing the hidden stories of the...
Nathan Sandberg creates glass panes that are full of movement and repeated patterns that gently guide the viewer’s eyes through the work. He currently runs his own studio out of his home in Portland, Oregon, where he works with kiln cast glass as...
Born in Santiago, Chile, Gabriela Wilson has been influenced by her country’s strong artisanal culture. She enjoys manipulating the properties of glass through kiln casting and hot casting, and is specifically intrigued by how it moves and reacts to...
Matthew Curtis is repeatedly drawn to the complexity and beauty of the microscopic architecture of living organisms. “I am interested in capturing a depth and complexity to the blown and cast glass components I produce, where the finish of the...
Knit, woven, and bundled glass fiber is commonly seen throughout Machiko Ito’s work, which is glossy like silk and occasionally contains light. Focused on the repetitive, meditative process of knitting structures, Ito is inspired by the geometrical...
Brandyn Callahan became entranced with glass when he discovered the community of glassworkers in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. That infatuation led him to begin his formal glassblowing education in 2009 when he walked into a local studio and...
The interaction between glass and the life brought to it through blowing is what brings Aya Oki to glassmaking and continues to fascinate her. She controls the materiality of glass and uses her personal process to illuminate it. Her work often turns...
With a background in ceramics, architecture, and digital fabrication, designer Phirak Suon brings a unique perspective to glassmaking. Suon has been working with glassblower Brandyn Callahan since 2016, and together they explore methods between and...
Upcoming Events
Flameworker Shinobu Kurosawa and glassblower Jim Butler will be Artists-in-Residence at The Studio February 24 through March 24. Listen to them discuss their work and projects during this informal lecture on March 14. During her residency, Kurosawa is doing research on tonbodama and expanding...
Artists Alison Siegel and Pamela Sabroso will be collaborating as Artists-in-Residence at The Studio March 30 through April 26. Listen to them discuss their work and projects during this informal lecture on April 18. During their residency, Siegel and Sabroso, who have been collaborating since...
Glassmaker Marc Barreda will be the David Whitehouse Artist Resident for Research April 2 through 26. Listen to him discuss his research during this informal lecture on April 18. During his residency at the Rakow Research Library, Barreda is studying trick glasses. Through exhaustive cataloging...
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