I am completely humbled by my inclusion as one of three artists chosen to participate in The Toledo Workshop Revisited. This March," the Toledo Museum of Art will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Harvey Littleton's seminal 1962 Toledo Workshop by offering three artists the opportunity to realize a contemporary project using a furnace modeled after the one that Littleton and Dominick Labino developed 50 years ago. It was this small-scale furnace design that made the Studio Glass movement possible."
"To honor the past and celebrate the future of glass, selected members of a new generation of artists who directly experiment with the material in their own way will be chosen for this project. It was direct experimentation with the material that drove Harvey Littleton's quest to make glass available to artists working in a studio setting.The residents will begin by participating in the building of a 1962 style furnace." Stay tuned for more information on the project I will attempt at the workshop. I am so excited to work and share with the other two selected artists Kim Harty and Matthew Szosz.

http://www.rmmfoundation.org/
http://www.toledoworkshop.org/

Got a write up on GLASS Quarterly Hotsheet:
http://blog.glassquarterly.com

WOW!! My piece Basket has been given The Tyler Alumni Association Award of Excellence at the Outside/Inside the Box show for Fiber Philadelphia 2012.

I am a total advocate for Tyler School of Art, my alma mater, and really believe I would not be on the same path if it was not for my graduate education there.

The show is really amazing and is still up for a while, check it out:

Also check out I got mention in a blog review for the show on Philly Side Arts, thank you to Cassandra Hoo:
http://philly.sidearts.com/201

Outside/Inside the Box
Outside/Inside the Box showcases innovative fiber/textile art that transcends disciplines and combines historic concepts with contemporary perspectives. This juried exhibition represents 68 artists working in media with fiber/textile reference. 516 artists from 15 countries applied with 1,316 pieces of work. Countries represented are Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Sweden,Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Jurors
Elisabeth R. Agro is the Nancy M. McNeil Associate Curator of American Modern, Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Bruce D. Hoffman is the curatorial consultant for Outside/Inside the Box and FiberPhiladelphia 2012. An independent curator, Hoffman lectures on the decorative arts with a focus on contemporary textile and fiber art. The former Director of the Snyderman-Works Gallery, Bruce Hoffman was instrumental in creating the International Fiber Biennial.
Judith Weisman lectures, curates, juries, and designs exhibitions in the field of contemporary decorative arts. Her projects have been widely published. She served on the Board of Trustees of the American Craft Council and is Acquisitions Chair of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery support group.

Ice Box Project Space
Crane Arts Building
1400 N American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122

Exhibition Dates:
March 3 - April 14, 2012
Opening Reception:
March 3, 2012
Additional Reception:
March 31, 2012

I am so incredibly honored to be the recipient of The 2012 Stephen Procter Fellowship at The Glass Workshop of Australia National University. I will be traveling to Canberra this July and August to make work using local recycled glass that I will flamework and hot-sculpt into compositions and installations. I am so excited to spend time exchanging information with the distinguished faculty and students of ANU.

http://soa.anu.edu.au/glass

I had a wonderful and unexpected write-up about my work in The Daily Art Muse Blog.
Thank you to Susan Lomuto.

http://dailyartmuse.com/

I am totally psyched to be the teaching assistant at Penland this summer for Andre Gutgesell during session 1.
Andre is a master flameworker from Lauscha. He is using all soft glass rod and tubing to create amazing pieces of work. If anyone has ever attempted to use soft glass tubing you understand why Andre is the man.

http://penland.org/glass/index

A version of my piece Milk can now be found at The PISMO Gallery in Denver Colorado. This is a 7 piece installation.

http://www.pismoglass.com/sear

On March 18th I will be the moderator for the "Ask the Experts" panel discussion at The International Flameworking Conference held at Salem Community College. The panel includes four distinguished and knowledgeable members of the glass community: Paul Stankard, Milon Townsend, Sally Prasch, and Andrew Page.

These four panelists cover a huge basis of expertise on a variety of glass inquisitions. I am collecting questions to ask the panelists.

Please email me with any possible question and I will try to include it in the panel as well as relay you the answer.

http://www.salemcc.edu/glass/c

My piece Basket will be displayed at the Outside/Inside the Box show for the Philadelphia Fibers Biennial March 1st through April 15th. This exciting show is bringing together artist who work in a variety or mediums and will be show at The Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St. Philadelphia.
Receptions Saturday March 3 and 31st, 5-8pm.

http://www.fiberphiladelphia.o

YES!! New Glass Review!!

My piece Basket will be featured in this yearly magazine showing 100 new glass works.

I am incredibly excited to be the TA for the upcoming Lucio Bubacco and Paul Stankard class at Corning this winter. It is session 3 in January. Not only is this going to be a killer class but my good friends Jessica Jane Julius and Erica Rosenfeld will be teaching a class in the hotshop next door. So awesome.
I highly recommend Corning for all your educational glass needs. The studio and staff are top notch.
http://www.cmog.org/dynamic.as

The video was live-streamed and is available on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

After a long summer away I am very excited to be back in Philly for an exciting fall season. This semester I am very honored to be co-teaching a class with Paul Stankard at Salem Community College. Also, I will be teaching an Intro/Intermediate class at Tyler School of Art as well as be the artist in residence at the studio for the semester.

Salem has also asked me to be on the board of the 2012 International Flameworking Conference held this March in Carney's Point, New Jersey. So, if anyone reading this has any ideas for the conference please let me know and I will be sure to pass them along.

I will be the teaching assistant in the flameshop this summer for Gianni Toso at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. This is the third class I will be TA'ing for Gianni at Corning and I know from experience it will be an amazing, exciting, and hilarious two weeks. Bill Gudenrath will also be teaching session 7 in the hot shop which will make for excellent times. Yay Glass Camp!
http://www.cmog.org/dynamic.as

Oh! Also, Corning did a live stream video of one of Gianni's demos which can now be found in the video archives. I tried to stay off camera as much as possible but you can see him making me crack up at one point, as usual.
Here it is:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded

I have a piece in The Urban Glass Fete de Verre 2011. Also on display at Chashama Gallery 217 E. 42nd St. NYC

http://blog.glassquarterly.com

Come to my MFA Thesis Show!
Peak and Valley.

See what I have been up to the past two years.
April 8th 6-9pm. Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art.

http://www.temple.edu/tyler/ex

I was the featured artist in The New Jersey Sunbeams article on The 2011 International Flameworking Conference!

http://www.nj.com/sunbeam/inde

Also listed on the Salem Community College site with my friend Gianni Toso!:
http://www.salemcc.edu/news/st

I am very honored to be giving a lecture and demonstration at this years International Flameworking Conference at Salem Community College. March 18-20. My lecture will be at 1:00 Sunday. I will be speaking about my work and path to graduate school as well as the research I am doing on the diversity of flameshops in the university system. I will also focus on the potential of recycled glass for flameworking, specifically Fenton cullet.

My demonstration will be on flameworking recycled Fenton glass.

http://www.salemcc.edu/glass/c

I got a great blog review for the show this past weekend for the CAA conference MFA exhibition at the Hunter College Times Square Gallery. There were 20 participating schools within 100 miles of NYC each with their own gallery.

http://beniceartfriends.com/20

I will have a piece included in the Ice Box show at the Crane Arts building March 2nd through 13th.
First Friday March 2nd opening, 6-9 pm.
Second Thursday opening March 10th, 6-9pm.

All of the second-year grads at Tyler will have a piece in the show.

http://www.cranearts.com/?p=28