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