
1952 Born in Waltham, MA
EDUCATION:
1974 B.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1976 Orrefors Glass Skolen, Orrefors, SWEDEN
SELECTED FACULTY POSITIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1983-present Built and operate private glass blowing studio
1991-1994 Board of Trustees, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
1993 Fall Workshop, Glass workshop, Brooklyn, NY
1993 Artist in Residence, Niijima Glass Art Center, Niijima, JAPAN
1988, 92 Summer Instructor, Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, ME
1986 Summer Instructor, The Appalachian Center, Smithville, TN
1985 Summer Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1983-84 Summer Instructor, Summervail Workshop, Vail, CO
1980-84 Instructor, Glass Blowing, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
1979-83 Partner, Glass Eye Studios, Seattle, WA
1978-81 Teaching Assistant, The Pilchuck School, Stanwood, WA
1974-76 Partner, Berkshire Blown Glass Works, Stockbridge, MA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1999 Twenty Years, Museum of Northwest Art, Laconner, WA
1999 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 Gumps, San Francisco, CA Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and The Spirit, Scottdale, AZ
1996 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 Butters Gallery Ltd., Portland, OR
1989-92, 94 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981-85, 87 Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 The Glass gallery, Bethesda, MD
1991, 1986 Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1991 Maveety Gallery, Gleneden Beach, OR
1989 Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI
1985, 1990, Joanne Rapp Gallery / The Hand & The Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1984, 85, 87 B.Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1984 Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
1984, 83 Walter White Gallery, Carmel, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2000 An International Survey of Glass, Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY
2000 Glass from the Emerald City, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
1999-00 Glass! Glorious Glass!, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art,Smithsonian,Washington, DC
1999 Reflections on Light, Holtzer Museum, Helena, MT
1998 Aperto Vetro-Exposizione Internazionale del Vetro Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy
1998 Art Fair Vancouver, Vancouver BC, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 Butters Glass III, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR Glass Today By American Studio Artists, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Art Fair Vancouver, Vancouver BC, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 Almost Alchemy: Contemporary Artists working in Glass, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue, WA
1996 Pacific Northwest Arts Fair, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue,WA
1995-96 A Museum in the Making: The Gerald L. Cafesjian Collection, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
1995 Pilchuck Glass Exhibition at Seattle-TacomaInternation Airport, Port of Seattle, WA
1995 The White House Collection of American Crafts, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. This exhibition can be accessed via an Internet "virtual tour" address: http:\\www.nmaa.si.edu
1995 Taipei International Glass Exhibit, Taiwain, CHINA
1995 A Touch of Glass, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC
1994 Reflections '94: Ten American Women Working in Glass, Bell Gallery, Memphis, TN
1993 Artist Made Building Parts Project, King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
1993 Out of the Fire, Contemporary Art Niki, Tokyo, JAPAN
1993 Northwest International Art Competition 1993, Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, WA
1992-94 Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, WA and traveling
1992 International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Kanazawa, JAPAN
1991-92 Pilchuk Glass Exhibition, Port of Seattle, SeaTac Airport, Seattle, WA
1991 Frozen Moments, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Artists at Work: 25 Northwest Glassmakers, Ceramists and Jewelers, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA and Boise ID
1990 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, Rice University, Houston, TX
1989-90 History of American Glass, from the Corning Museum of Glass at the Hermitage, Leningrad and in Moscow, USSR
1989 WASHINGTON TO WASHINGTON Women in Art Today, WSU, Pullman, WA and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1987, 88, 89 American Craft at the Armory, New York, NY
1987 Three-person show, The Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
1986-88 Design in America, United States Cultural Exchange, Touring Eastern Europe
1986 Crafts Today: Poetry of the Physical, Inaugural Exhibition, American Crafts Museum, New York, NY Contemporary Crafts: A Concept in Flux, co-sponsored by Helen Drutt Gallery, Philidelphia, PA and the Society for Art in Craft in Pittsburg, PA Pilchuck 1985 Faculty Exhibition, Washington State Capitol Museum, Olympia, WA
1985 Washington Contemporary Glass Artists, Govenor's Invitational, Washington State Capitol Museum, Olympia, WA Northwest Glass, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK
1982 American Glass: Northwest, Traveling to London, Zurich, Munich Craft International, Tokyo, JAPAN
1981-84 American Glass Now, Traveling Exhibtion, Yamaha, JAPAN
1981 New Glass Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Northwest Glass Artists, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1979 Collectibles of the Future, organized by Annie Hauberg, Seattle, WA
1983, 85, 92,99 New Glass Review Nos. 4,6,13,20, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
1998 Skilled Work, American Craft in the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
1996 Oldknow, Tina, Pilchuck, A Glass School , University of Washington Press
1995 The White House Collection of American Craft, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
1995 GLASS , Quarterly No. 59, Matters of Mood: The Glass of Sonja Blomdahl, Spring 34-41
1983, 1992 American Craft Magazine, Portfolio, August/September
1993 &1992 February/March
1991 Margretts, Martina, editor. International Crafts, Thames and Hudson, London Miller, Bonnie. Out of the Fire: Contemporary Glass Artists and Their Work, Chronicle Books
1990 Biskeborn, Susan, Artists at Work: 25 Glassmakers, Ceramists and Jewelers, Alaska Northwest Books
1989 Klein, Dan. Glass: A Contemporary Art, Rizzoli International Publications, 50-51
1989,1986 Vogue Magazine, January 1989, October 1986
1987 Artist's Trust Fellowship Grant
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1985 Commissioned to make the Washington State Govenor's Awards
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The White House Permanent Craft Collection, Washington, DC
Oregon Public Arts Commission, (Salem Public Service Building), Salem, OR
MCI Headquarters/Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
Kitazawa Contemporary Glass Museum, Kitazawa, Japan
Bank of America, Portland, OR
Everett Public Library, Everett, WA
Prescott Collection of Pilchuck Glass, Pacific First Centre, Seattle, WA
Collection of Modern Glass, Museum of Decorative Art, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
IBM Corporation, New York, NY
Mathews Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Seafirst Bank, Seattle, WA
Safeco Corporation, Seattle, WA
Fine Arts Museum of the South at Mobile, Mobile, AL
Seattle Arts Commission Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
Washington State Arts Commission (Art in Public Places), Olympia, WA
United Parcel Service Headquarters, Atlanta, GA
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