Currently:
Artist/Designer/Maker, working in Glass, since 1973; Professor Emeritus Cleveland Institute of Art
Professional Highlights
- 1973 to 2014
Professor and Head of the Glass Department, Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, OH
- 2014
Lecture and Workshops at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, IL (multiple years)
- 2013
Jurors Award at 41st Habatat International Invitational, Habatat Galleries in Royal Oak, MI • Award for Outstanding Achievement, Ohio Designer Craftsment • Sabbatical Leave to conduct artistic research and continued development of the Matrix Series • Published in Studio Glass in America: A 50 Year Journey by Ferdinand Hampson, Shiffer Press
- 2012
Exhibition and Lectures, Akron Art Museum in Akron, OH
- 2011
Creative Workforce Fellowship, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture in Cuyahoga Co, OH
- 2010
Lecture Workshop, University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL
- 2008
Awarded the Viktor Schreckengost Teaching Award, Cleveland Institute of Art • Lecture and Workshops at Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA
- 2005
Sabbatical Leave, Cleveland Institute of Art for artistic research and development • Lectures and Workshops at California Polytechnic Institute in San Louis Obispo, CA and Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, IL
- 2003
Workshop Leader, Niijima International Glass Art Festival in Niijima and Tokyo, Japan
- 2000
Workshop on Furnace Construction at University of Miami, FL
- 1998
Workshops in Glass Blowing and Glass Casting at the International Glass Art Society Conference in Seto, Japan. Two-week workshop in glass working sponsored by the Glass Art Association of Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan
- 1990
Selected as Head of Glass Department at Aichi University of Education in Kariya, Japan; served 18 months and was responsible for building studio, curriculum design and implementation and teaching the first glass program in a national university in Japan
Recent Acquisitions
- 2015
Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA
- 2012
Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA
- 2010
Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, OH
- 2008
Racine Art Museum in Racine, WI • With the Rolland Collection exhibited and acquired by the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM
- 2007
With the Farago Collection acquired by the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, MA
- 2006
Toledo Museum of Art (two works) in Toledo, OH • Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC
- 2003
Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan • Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, GA
Education
- M.F.A.
Glass Art, Ceramic Sculpture Minor, State University of New York, College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, NY, 1973
- B.A.
Ceramic Art, Glass Concentration, San Jose State University in San Jose, CA, 1971
- A.A.
General Studies, Engineering Emphasis, Modesto Junior College in Modesto, CA, 1967
Permanent Collections
- American Glass Museum, Millville, New Jersey
- Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
- Birmingham Museum of Fine Art, Birmingham, Alabama
- Bergstrom Mahler Art Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin
- Butler institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
- Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio
- Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, Ohio
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
- Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
- Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
- First Contemporary Glass Museum, Alcorcon (Madrid), Spain
- First Union Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Akron, OH
- Hickory Museum of Art, NC
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
- Hokaido Museum of Art, Sapporo, Japan
- Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, Florida
- Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
- McDonalds Corporation, Oakbrook, Illinois
- Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
- Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
- Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
- Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum, Niijima, Tokyo, Japan
- New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
- North Carolina State Museum of Art, NC
- Racine Art Museum, Racine WI
- Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Shaw Walker Corporation, Muskegon, Michigan
- Southern Ohio Electric Company, Columbus, OH
- The Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, NM
- The Toledo Museum of Art, Glass Pavilion, Toledo OH
- The Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah GA.
- University of Texas at El Paso, Texas