Born in 1954 in New York, NY
EDUCATION
1978 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013 Lecture & Demonstration,University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
2012 Bowling Green State University(Visiting Artist)
2012 Hauberg Fellowship(residency), Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood Washington
Faculty, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood Washington
2011 Glass Art Society Conference (2 lectures) “Rarely Seen and Unusual Glass, “Vitreography”, Seattle, WA
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue,Washington (docent training in Glass)
2011 Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (workshop)
2010,06,05 Workshop Pratt Fine Arts Center Seattle, Washington
2009, 2000 Faculty, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood Washington
2011, 2005-7 History of Glass (lecture series) Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2011 Nordic Glass (lecture) Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA.
2009, 2007 Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA.
2008 Master Class & Lecture, The International Glass Festival, Stourbridge,UK
2007 Glass Art Society (lecture &demo) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Glass Center (workshop) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ohio State University (workshop), Columbus, Ohio,
Columbus College of Art and Design (workshop), Columbus, Ohio
Franklin Park Conservatory (lecture), Columbus, Ohio
2006 Workshop, Fundación Centro Nacional de Vidrio. , La Granja de San Ildefonso, Spain
PAIR residency, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2006, 2004 Guest Artist Museum of Glass, Tacoma Washington
2006-07 Judge “ Twisty Cup Pro-AM 2006” (glassblowing contest) Tacoma, WA.
2006 Studio Glass (lecture) Columbus Museum, Columbus Georgia
2003 Dual Purpose (workshop for the disabled), Shelton, WA.
Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA.
2000, 2002 Faculty, Penland School, Penland N.C.
1998 Faculty, Penland School, Penland N.C.
Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
1996-7, 2000 Visiting Artist, Penland School, Penland, NC
1996, 1994 Workshop Pratt Fine Arts Center Seattle, Washington
1995 Faculty, Penland School, Penland N.C.
Glass Symposium, Guest Artist, Frauenau, GERMANY
1994 Renwick Gallery, Lecturer, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Workshop, Seattle, WA
1993 Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Visiting Artist, Penland, NC
Faculty, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood Washington
Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA.
British Columbia Glass Art Association, Workshop, Vancouver, BC, CANADA
Centro de Arte Vitro, Workshop, Monterey, MEXICO
University of Monterey, Lecturer, Monterey, MEXICO
Pilchuck Glass School, Visiting Artist, Stanwood, WA
1989 Konstfackskolan (National College of Art and Design, Workshop, Stockholm, SWEDEN
Konstnarshem, Lecturer, Stockholm, SWEDEN
Wolverhampton Polytechnic, Workshop, Wolverhampton, UK
Sunderland Polytechnic, Workshop, Sunderland, UK
1989, 1983 Faculty, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood Washington
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle Washington
2004 William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA (June: in collaboration with Dick Weiss)
2000 Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Vetri Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Floating Glasses, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA (in collaboration with James Mongrain)
1994-95 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 Bubba Mavis Gallery, Seattle, WA (in collaboration with Dick Weiss)
1986, 91 The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD
1991 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1985, 87 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Habatat Galleries, Detroit, Ml
1982 Horizon Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1981 Heller Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Northwest Collects, Museum of Glass,Tacoma
2012 Pilchuck: Ideas, Museum of Northwest Art , La Conner ,WA.
Toulouse Lautrec, the Price Collection, The Rainier Club, Seattle,WA.
Marioni Collection. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2011 Gallery Artists, Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Seattle Collects, Seattle Art Museum,Seattle, WA
Shack Art Center, Everett, WA.
2010 Eyes on Glass, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Studio Glass, Musée Des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
2009 Looking Forward, Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2008 Art: Glorious Glass: Translucent and Opaque’ The Arts Center, Tampa
2008 Clear Your Mind: Contemporary Glass Invitational” Figge Art Museum, Davenport Iowa
2007-08 Contrasts, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2007 Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon, Tacoma Art Museum
Made in the Museum, Museum of Glass Tacoma, WA
Behind Glass: Creativity and Collaboration, The Arts Center St.Petersburg, FL
Painting with Light: Artists that paint on and with glass, Palos Verdes Art Center, Ranch Palos Verdes, CA
2005 2nd Annual World Glass Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2002 25th Anniversary Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Hauberg Fellowship Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 Group show, Riley Hawk Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1998 Holter Museum of Fine Art, Helena, MT
Battle Creek Fine Arts Center, Battle Creek, MI
The Fluid Canvas, Chappell Gallery, SOFA, Chicago, IL; Boston, MA
The Society of Glass and Ceramic Decorators, New Orleans, LA
Painting on Glass, Morgan Contemporary Glass, Pittsburgh, PA
3-Dimensional Canvas, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987-97 200 Glasses of Beer, Virginia Inn, Seattle, WA
1997 Hobbies 2000, Bubba Mavis Gallery, Seattle, WA
Celebrity: Figures of Worship, Fame, Fortune, Heroism & Infamy, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
Glorious Glass, Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro, KY
Holter Museum of Fine Art, Helena, MT
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Frozen Fire, Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD
1995 International Symposium, Frauenau, GERMANY
The Art of Painted Glass, Habitat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL; Aspen, CO
1994 The Beauty of Painted Glass, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Painted Glass, The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD
1979-93 Annual Pilchuck Glass Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 Walter Lieberman and Dick Weiss, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 Material Visions, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Contemporary Painting on Glass, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992-96 Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, Whatcom Museum of History, Bellingham, WA
1983, 88 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1988 Pilchuck Glass, American Embassy, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
1985-87 Jewish Community Museum, San Francisco, CA
1981-87 Habatat National Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Detroit, Ml
1985 Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Narrative Glass, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1984-85 Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Vancouver/Seattle, Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia, CANADA
Boston Connection, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Opening Show, Habatat Galleries
1979 New Glass, traveling exhibition including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Victoria & Albert Museum,
London, ENGLAND
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS AND COLLECTIONS
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA.
Tacoma Museum of Art (2012) Tacoma, WA.
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
Musée Des Beaux Artes, Montreal, Canada
Glasmuseum Frauenau, Frauenau, Germany
Lannan Foundation
Corning Museum of Glass (4 pieces)
Safeco Corporation
Washington State Arts Commission
City of Seattle
King County, Portable Works
Seattle Sheraton Hotel
John Hauberg, Seattle, Washington
Henry Lieberman, Boston, Massachusetts
Jon & Mary Shirley
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2008 Kelley Moore collection
2005, 2001 Price Collection
2004 Bellevue Art Museum (in collaboration with Dick Weiss, Cappy Thompson)
1999 Portrait: Charles Williams, atty. (commercial)
1996 Botanical Paintings, Ruth & Jack Fay
1993 Janet Upjohn (lighting) Seattle, Washington
1989 President's Trophy, Safeco Corporation, Seattle, Washington
1986 New Market Skill Center, Tumwater, Washington (state art commission)
1985 Compagne (lighting) Seattle, Washington
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2012, 2001 Hauberg Fellowship, Pilchuck Glass School
1986 Pilchuck Glass School, Artist in Residence, Stanwood, WA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1998 Penland School of Arts and Cracts, Faculty, Penland, NC
1995 Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Faculty, Penland, NC
1993 Pilchuck Glass School, Faculty, Stanwood, WA
1989 Pilchuck Glass School, Faculty, Stanwood, WA
1980-85 Pratt Fine Arts Center, Faculty, Seattle, WA
1983 Pilchuck Glass School, Faculty, Stanwood, WA
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Glass Art Society Journal (2 articles) “Rarely Seen and Unusual Glass, “Vitreography”
2010 Studio Glass, ( book) Musée Des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
2008 Art: Glorious Glass: Translucent and Opaque’(catalogue)
2007 Columbus Dispatch, Columbus (newspaper), Ohio
2006 El Adelanto, Segovia, Spain (newspaper)
End User Development (Book cover design)
2004 “The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience” (book) Mint Museum of Craft, Charlotte, NC
2002 'WD40+: The Painted Glass and Prints of Walter Lieberman and Dick Weiss"
By Shawn Waggoner Art Glass (magazine) November/December issue
2001 Contemporary Glass: Color Light and Form, (book) Guild Publishing
Object lessons (book) Guild Publishing
2000 Penland Line, fall issue (champagnes) Penland School of Crafts
Urban Glass, Richard Yelle, editor (book)
1999 "paint me a poem: a canvas of word" (art & poetry publication) King County Public Art Program, Washington
Art & Antiques Magazine- November issue (floating champagnes)
Glass Quarterly fall issue (cover article by Matthew Kansas)
Glass Art Magazine (showcase section) March/April
Seattle Magazine February issue, Seattle, Washington (article re: floating glasses)
1998 Battle Creek Enquirer 11/14/98,Battle Creek, Michigan (review)
Kalamazoo Gazette 11/15/98, Kalamazoo Michigan (review)
Seattle Weekly Dec. 17-24
“Telling Compelling Tales: Narrative Art in Glass” Holter Museum of Art (catalog)
Ceramic Industry Dec. Issue
American Style Magazine, Dec. issue (re: floating glasses)
1997 "New Glass Review" Neues Glas (magazine), May, Germany
1995 "The Art and Politics of Walter Lieberman" Neues Glas (magazine) Jan. Germany
"The Art of Painted Glass " (catalog) Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida
1994 Sunset Magazine, September
1994,93,91,89 Glass Work (magazine) Japan
1993 "Clearly Art: Pilchuck Glass Legacy" (book) Lloyd Herman
1992 Seattle Times (review) Matthew Kangas
"Out of The Fire" (book) Bonnie Miller
"Material Visions" (catalog) Eastern Illinois University
1988 "Pilchuck Glass School: The Great Northwest Experiment "(catalog)
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
Glass Art September-October (magazine) issue
1987 "The Art of Conscience " New Work (magazine) spring
House & Garden (magazine), February issue
1986 "Artwork" KCTS (educational TV documentary)
Art in America (magazine) September issue
1985 Seattle-Post Intelligencer (newspaper review)
1984 Vancouver/ Seattle (catalog) Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey B.C. Canada
Vanguard (magazine) November issue, Canada
1983 Pacific Northwest (magazine) December issue
