1974  M.F.A., Glass Sculpture, Minor in Dimensional Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1972  B.A., Art Education, Minor in Ceramics and Glass, Kean College of New Jersey, Union, NJ

Selected One Person Exhibitions:

1999-01Hot & Cool: Contemporary Glass Works, traveling exhibition w/catalog
1999  Butters Gallery, Ltd., Portland, OR
1998  Breathless: The Figure in Contemporary Glass, Art Center of Battle Creek, MI
1998  Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1998  Butters Gallery, Ltd., Portland, OR
1997  Transformations, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
1997  Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1997  B/For and About Women, Morgan at Mendelson, Pittsburgh, PA
1996  His + Hers = Ours, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, PA
1996  New Work, Butters Gallery Ltd., Portland, OR
1996  Gallery 937, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, PA
1995  Passions, Kean College of New Jersey, Union, NJ
1994  Made in America, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1993  Contemporary Artists' Series, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
1993  Body of Work, Butters Gallery Ltd., Portland, OR
1992  Artist of the Year, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
1991  The Whirling Works, Kimzey Miller Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990  Ruth Volid Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990  Clay Place Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1989  Magic Visions: Personal Touch, Museum of Indiana University, Indiana, PA
1988  Clifford Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
1988  Crossings, The Community Arts Center of Cambria County, Johnstown, PA
1988  Highlight Award Exhibition, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1986  Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986  Glass Gallery, Bethesda, ML
1986  Gallery G, Pittsburgh, PA
1986  Olin Fine Arts Center Gallery, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA
1985  Improvisations for Pittsburgh, Public Art Work for the Light Rail Transit System, Steel Plaza Station, City of Pittsburgh
1982  Works in Glass, Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1981  Collaborations in Glass, Rudolf Lee Gallery, School of Visual Arts, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
1980  Juror’s Exhibition, Ohio Ceramic and Sculpture Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1980  Works in Glass,Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1996  Regional Focus, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
1996  Parallel Visions, Christine Olson, curator, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1996  Boat as Metaphor, PPG Plaza installation, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1995  Respect, Vicky Clark, curator. The Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA
1995  Associated Artists Annual Juried Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1995  Beyond the Third Dimension: Contemporary Pennsylvanian Sculpture, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1995  In Women We Trust, Vitrum Gallerie, Asheville, NC
1995  Visions and Voices, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY
1994  International Glass Survey, Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1994  Issues of Abstraction, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
1994  New Work: Ron Desmett and Kathleen Mulcahy, Louisville Arts Center, KY
1994  Revised Context, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1994  1991-92 Craft Fellowship Award Recipients, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Traveling to: the Clay Studio, Philadelphia,
         Wilkes College in Wilkes Barre and The State Museum, Harrisburg, PA.
1993  New Work by Ron Desmett and Kathleen Mulcahy, The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, ML
1993  New Glass Review, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY
1993  Art in Architecture, Nations Bank and Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1993  Degrees of Abstraction, 925 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, Curator: Vicky Clark.
1993  1993 Stockbridge Glass Invitational, Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1992  3, Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1992  Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1992  Butters Gallery Ltd., Portland, Oregon
1992  Architectural Glass, Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1992  1992 Stockbridge Glass Invitational, Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1992  Contemporary American Glass, The Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1992  Crafts Today / USA, Palau Robert, Barcelona, Spain
1991  Artist Couples, The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
1991  Crafts Today / USA, travels to: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland;Eommex Cultural Center, Athens, Greece;
         Kunstindustrimuseet I Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Centrum Voor Kunst en Cultuur, Sint-Pietersplein, The Netherlands
1991  Westmoreland Museum of Art Invitational Exhibition, Greensburg, PA
1991  Invitational, The Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1991  Christy Taylor Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1990  Glass National, Concept Art Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA (‘91 and ‘92)
1990  Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1990  Lynn McAllister Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990  Marcus Gordon Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1990  Crafts Today / USA travels to: Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, West Germany; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland;
         Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow
1989  Crafts Today / USA travels to: Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; Applied Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
1988  Taking Shape; Sculptural Glass Now, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1988  Women in Glass, The Hand and The Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1988  Views Gallery, Balacynwyd, PA
1988  New Glass Review 7, The Corning Museum of Glass International Survey, Corning, NY
1988  National Glass Exhibition, The Robert L. Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1987  New American Glass: Focus 2 - West Virginia, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
1987  Drawn to the Surface: Clay and Glass, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA (catalog)
1987  Three Rivers Arts Festival Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA
1986  New American Glass: Focus 2 -West Virginia, Huntington Galleries, Park Hills, WV (catalog)
1986  Glass National, The Downey Art Museum, Downey, CA 1986  Three Rivers Arts Festival Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA (award)
1985  Quadripartite: Personal Visions, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (catalog)
1985  Works Off Walls: Exhibition 280, Huntington Galleries, Park Hills, WV
1983  Glass National, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1983  New Glass Review 3, The Corning Museum of Glass International Survey, Corning, New York Competition, New York, NY

Awards and Honors:

1997  Artist in Residence, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1996  Creative Achievement Award, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
1995  Tillie S. Speyer Memorial Award for Sculpture
1994  Artist in Residence, Mid Atlantic Arts Fellowship, Corning, NY.
1993  Individual Artist Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1992  Artist of the Year, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA
1991  Masterworks Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ
1986  Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Research Grant to Italy and France
1984  Lusk Memorial Award for Creative Artists, Fulbright to Italy
1983  Individual Artist Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1981  Visiting Artist, ArtPark, Lewiston, New York
1979  National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1978  Invited Participant to the World Crafts Council, Kyoto Japan

Collections:

American Craft Museum, New York City
Bayer Corporation
Blue Cross, Pittsburgh, PA
Carnegie Mellon University Library, Pittsburgh, PA
Duquesne Light Corporate Headquarters, Pittsburgh, PA
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning New York, NY
Miles Inc., Pennsylvania
Pete Marwick Collection
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA
Private Collections in the USA, Canada, France, and Switzerland

Commissions:

1997  Pittsburgh Regional Alliance
1997  Deloitte and Touché, Pittsburgh, PA
1997  Bayer Corporation
1996  Centimark Corporation, Washington, PA
1996  Pittsburgh Magazine, Award for the Arts
1994  Ross Mould Inc., Spinner installations, Washington, PA
1993  Deloitte and Touché, Whirling Plate and 2 Amphoras in Armatures, Pittsburgh, PA
1993  Armco: Spinner and Twist for reception area of Corporate Headquarters, Pittsburgh, PA
1992  Russell, Rae & Zappala Inc., Flask in Armature, Pittsburgh, PA
1992  Cultural Awards, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA
1991  Kennametal Corporation, Whirling World, Latrobe, PA
1991  Planter Design for Carnegie, Ladle Pouring Steel, Carnegie, PA
1991  Cultural Awards, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA
1991  Morris DeGroot Memorial Award, Carnegie Mellon University
1991  Donors Room, Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, PA
1990  Andrew Carnegie Philanthropic Award, Carnegie Mellon University
1990  Governor’s Awards for Excellence, Harrisburg, PA
1985  Improvisations for Pittsburgh, LRT System, City of Pittsburgh, PA

Selected Bibliography:

1996  Shearing, Graham. His + Hers = Ours a treat in a loft . Tribune Review, September 27, 1996
1995  Clark, Vicky. The Unheard Songs of Kathleen Mulcahy, Glass Magazine, January, New York City, NY
1993  Clark, Vicky. Degrees of Abstraction: Eight Pittsburgh Artists, Exhibit Brochure
1993  Meyer, M. E. Degrees of Abstraction, Pittsburgh Magazine
1992  Clark, Vicky. Review, Glass Magazine
1992  Schwalb, Harry. Center Stage, Pittsburgh Magazine, July
1992  Miller, Donald. Mulcahy’s ‘Vapors’ a Breath of Artistry, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Apr 12, 1992
1992  Lowry, Patricia. Artist of Year Gives New Twist to Glass, The Pittsburgh Press, Apr 18, 1992
1992  Etzel, Jack. Artist of the Year, Channel 11 news feature, Feb 10, 1992
1991  Miller, Donald. A Touch of Glass, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Apr 2, 1992
1990  Homisak, Bill. The Smashing Glass of Mulcahy, Desmett, Greensburg Tribune- Review
1989  Magic Visions: Personal Touch, The University Museum, John Sutton Hall, Indiana, PA
1989  Hollister, Paul. Critique, American Glass 2: Focus West Virginia
1988  Listed in Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Marquis
1985  King, Elaine A. Quadripartite: Personal Visions, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1984  Warmus, William. Sculptural Glass Invitational 1985, Erie Museum of Art, PA

Professional Experience:

1993  In the Quest for Being, Co-Curator for Three Rivers Arts Festival Show
1992  Feasibility Study for town of Elizabeth to create a glass workshop for artists
1991-1992 Advisory committee, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1991  Board of Advisors, Chartiers Valley Arts Council, Carnegie, PA
1990  Developed Public Art Program for the town of Carnegie, PA
1990  Created the People’s Art Show for the Fall Festival of Carnegie,PA
1989  Built a glass studio in Oakdale, PA
1989-1990 Board of Directors, Chartiers Valley Arts Council, Carnegie, PA
1986-1989 Board of Directors, Glass Art Society, Incorporated in New York State
1986  Authored a grant to the PCA for support of the GAS conference in Philadelphia, PA
1987  Authored a grant for support of the GAS journal of the Philadelphia conference
1984  Co-Authored a grant for 5 Visiting Artists at CMU
1985  Authored a grant for 5 Visiting Artists working in Glass at CMU
1976-1989 Associate Professor of Sculpture, Director of the Glass Studio, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1980-1982 Rebuilt glass studio at Carnegie Mellon University
1982  Developed a Public Lecture Series for the Department of Art, CMU
1975 Head of the Glass Program, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH