The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass will support five Artists-in-Residence in 2008. A leader in education, research and scholarship, the Museum offers a residency program to help train the next generation of artists working in glass.
During the residency, each artist has access to The Studio’s state-of-the-art glassmaking facilities as well as the broad expertise of the Studio staff to further explore the use of glass in his or her work.
While in Corning, each artist also has access to the Museum’s far-reaching Rakow Research Library, as well as the variety and breadth of the Museum’s collection that spans 35 centuries of glassmaking history. The opportunity to explore objects and complete research complements studio time, allowing each artist to gain a deeper understanding of the material in all of its dimensions.
“The Studio and the Museum are dedicated to educating and inspiring the next generation of artists working in glass, and the residency program is just one of the many ways we support emerging artists,” says Amy Schwartz, director, development, education programs, and The Studio. “Our facilities offer an opportunity for the artists to fully immerse themselves in their art and explore the history glass and glassmaking at the same time. Artists can create a body of work or experiment with a new technique with the support of the Studio staff. At the same time they can take advantage of the collections and research material to investigate other important dimensions of the material.”
The artists also will give public Lunchtime Lectures during their Residencies, explaining their visions and explorations with glass.
* April Residency - Kait Rhoads and Amy Rueffert
Respected artists whose individual works are in the collections of The Corning Museum of Glass and other major museums, Rhoads and Rueffert also have collaborated on many projects. They hope to use their April Residency to explore similar techniques together and apply them to their own individual bodies of work. Collaborative artwork is not the object of the Residency, but rather a collaborative effort towards a similar goal. Rhoads and Rueffert will use traditional glassblowing techniques to create contemporary sculpture. Their focus will be “to develop and refine techniques of laying multiple patterns and imagery in glass.” Rhoads and Rueffert will present their lecture on April 23.
* May Residency - Aric Snee
Currently a glassblower for Steuben Glass, Snee has worked glass in studio, academic and factory environments, and sees a rich connection in all of these experiences. He hopes to use his May Residency to continue the dialogue between factory and studio and to develop a design line that is inspired by the Finger Lakes region that surrounds Corning, NY, and suitable for limited production. His work is inspired by the natural world and explores “the relationship between the fragment and the whole” by finding “the macrocosm in the microcosm.” Snee will present his lecture on May 28.
* October Residency - Elizabeth Ware Perkins
Perkins lives and makes her work in Bumpass, VA, on a farm that has been in her family for seven generations. Her works, which have been published in New Glass Review, “fuse…characters, places and sentiments with new, fantastic handmade glass objects” that “come together like all the smells from a kitchen.” In her October Residency, she would like to more deeply pursue the idea of being an artist, archivist and narrator in her work. She will experiment with cane, murrini and pressed glass techniques and look at their relationship to her current work, which draws heavily from her love of antique textiles. Perkins also lacks access to the facilities necessary to create larger installations and will utilize the glassmaking equipment at The Studio to work on a larger scale. Perkins will present her lecture on October 22. -- www.cmog.org
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