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Nancy Callan

Nancy Callan Interview at Hawk Galleries


      Nancy Callan has been working as a glass artist in Seattle, Washington since receiving her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1996. For the past twelve years, she has been a member of Lino Tagliapietra’s glassblowing team and has traveled throughout the world as his assistant. Callan has built her skills working for many prominent glass artists including Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, Ginny Ruffner, and Josiah McElheny. Since 2001, she has focused on developing her artistic voice as a glass sculptor. Her work embodies the skill and finesse of the Venetian tradition, but combines this pedigree with the wit and aesthetic sensibility of a contemporary artist.

       Callan is highly influenced by pop culture, and references sources such as comic books (“Superhero Stingers”), children’s toys (“Tops”) and high fashion (“Plaid Winkles”) in her ongoing series. She has exhibited her work nationally at major galleries including the Traver Gallery in Seattle, Washington, Hawk Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, Holsten Gallery in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Davis and Cline Gallery in Ashland, Oregon, Daniel Kany Gallery in Portland, Maine and Sandra Ainsley Gallery in Toronto, Canada.

       In 2009, an early-career survey of Callan’s work is planned at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan. “Nancy Callan: Seventh-Inning Stretch” will travel to the Pittsburgh Glass Center.

Nancy Callan - Resume

EDUCATION
1999-2000 Lino Tagliapietra, Venetian Techniques, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Lino Tagliapietra, Advanced Glassblowing, The Studio, Corning, NY
John Brekke, Graal Techniques, The Studio, Corning, NY


EXHIBITIONS
2008 “NeoNature”, Solo Exhibition, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA “Nancy Callan”, Solo Exhibition, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR “Clear Your Mind: Contemporary Glass Invitational”, Figge Museum, Davenport, IA “Homage to a Maestro”, The Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA “Contemporary Glass: Chihuly and Beyond”, New Britian Museum of American Art, New Britian, Connecticut “Glass Drawings, Glass Sculpture”, Daniel Kany Gallery, Portland, Maine

2007 “Ongoing Invention”, Curated by Katherine Gray, The Robert V, Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernadino, California “Wobble and Bob”, Solo Exhibition, The Daniel Kany Gallery, Portland, Maine “Behind Glass: Creativity and Collaboration”, Curated by Margery Aronson, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida “Summer Exhibition”, Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

2006 “Woolgathering”, Solo Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington “New Work”, Solo Exhibition, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon “Seattle Artists Exhibition”, D&A Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California “Burning Ideas: Contemporary Visions in Glass”, Curated by Andy Rosen, The River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, Maine “Made at the Museum”, Group Exhibition, The Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington Spring Glass and Ceramics Auction, Preview Exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

2005 “New Work”, Solo Exhibition, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon “Topsy Turvy”, Solo Exhibition, Hawk Gallery, Columbus, Ohio “Contemporary Glass”, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana “Nancy Callan”, Installation, The Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington

2004 “The Italian Influence in Contemporary Glass”, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY “Fall for Glass ‘04”, Morgan Contemporary Glass, Pittsburgh, PA “Objects of Diversion”, Solo Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA “A New Vanguard”, Chappell Gallery, New York, NY “Long Live the Lamplighters”, Priceless Works Gallery, Seattle, Washington “Firey Influences”, Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, LA “The Language of Color”, Morgan Contemporary Glass, Pittsburgh, PA “Glass Invitational”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

2003 “New Work”, Solo Exhibition, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR “Chroma”, with Julia Ricketts, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho “Moxie”, Solo Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA “Echoes”, with Julia Ricketts, Solomon Fine Art, Seattle, WA “Artists of My Area/Era Working Drawings”, Bubba-Mavis Presentation, Seattle, WA

2002 “Toyland”, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR “New Artists”, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA “Introductions, ” Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR

2001 “Nancy Callan”, Vetri International Glass, Seattle, WA “The White Exhibition”, Portfolio Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2000 “Pratt Auction Preview Exhibition"', Convention Center, Seattle, WA “Pratt Instructors Show”, CoCA Gallery, Seattle, WA

1998 “Pilchuck Glass Auction”, Seattle, WA

1996 “Glass: The Cutting Edge”, The Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA “Master and Students”, The Grohe Gallery, Boston, MA “Mass Glass,” The Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 Instructor, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine

2006 Gaffer, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, for artist Anne Wilson Featured Artist, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington

2005 Gaffer at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Visiting Artist, Center College, Dansville, KY Featured Artist, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington

2003 Glassblowing Instructor, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME Featured Artist, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA Gaffer, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

2001 Instructor, Beginning Glassblowing, The Studio, Corning, NY Teaching Assistant to Ling Tagliapietra, Venetian Techniques, The Studio, Corning, NY Teaching Assistant to Lino Tagliapietra and Ben Edols, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Gaffer at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

1996-2006 Hot Shop Assistant to Lino Tagliapietra, Seattle, WA

1998-2006 Gaffer for Ginny Ruffner, Seattle, WA

1998-2001 Instructor, Advanced Glassblowing, Pratt Institute, Seattle, WA

1998-2003 Hot Shop Assistant to Josiah McElheny, Seattle, WA

1998 Teaching Assistant to Josiah McElheny, Venetian Techniques, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

1996-1998 Hot Shop Manager and Gaffer, Manifesto Corporation, Seattle, WA


AWARDS
2005 Artist in Residence, Center College, Danville, Kentucky

2004 Artist in Residence, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA

2003 King County Special Projects Grant, King County, WA

2001 Wheaton Village Fellowship, Millville, NJ

1996 Corning Glass Studio Scholarship, Corning, NY


PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA

Wheaton Village Museum of Glass, Millville, NJ

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Sir Elton John, Atlanta, Georgia

Melvyn and Rosalind Pole, Seattle, Washington

Stephen and Shelly Powell, Danville, KY

Lino and Lina Tagliapietra, Seattle, Washington

Ann Hauberg, Seattle, Washington


PUBLICATIONS
Tina Oldknow, New Glass Review 28, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York 2007, p.9, 73

Susan Kieffer, ed., 500 Glass Objects, Lark Books, New York, New York, 2006, color illustrations pp. 13, 58-9

Tina Oldknow, ed., 25 Years of New Glass Review, Corning, New York, 2006, color illustration

Nancy A. Ruhling, “Glass Acts: Contemporary Glass Artists Shatter the Preconceptions About Their Art Form”, Art and Antiques, color illustration, p.87

“Public Glass Demos Coming to Centre”, The Advocate-Messenger, p. A3. color illustrations, Danville, Kentucky, May 9, 2005

“Two Shows on Tap at Clark”, The Lincoln Journal, April 1, 2004

Barry Hannegan, “Artists Use Color to Convey Their Message”, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, May 6, 2004

Kurt Shaw, “From Texture to Tension”, Pittsburgh Tribune, Dec. 23, 2004

Featured Artist, “Portfolio”, American Craft Magazine, Oct./Nov. 2003 p.78

Matthew Kangas, “Reviews”, Glass Magazine, Number 92/Fall 2003 p.57

“Artists Express”, Seattle Community College Public Access Television, produced by Scott Morrison, 30 minutes, available on VHS copy

Matthew Kangas, “Global Glass: 33rd Annual Conference of Glass Art Society.”

Crart: Craft & Art (August 2003) p. 58-63

Neil Watson, “A Recipe for Almost Certain Disaster (Averted), New Glass Review, Summer 2003

Marty Carlock, “Combining Glass and Art”, The Wayland and West Town Crier, June 9, 1994

Jeanne Silver, “Sculptures Beyond Beautiful in Mass Glass”, The Boston Herald, June 10, 1994

Nancy Stapen, “Art Glass With an Edge”, The Boston Globe, June 9, 1994
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