Karen S. Chambers Collection on Contemporary Glass Artists

Moore, Benjamin P, 1952-2021

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Benjamin Moore was born on February 2, 1952, in Olympia, Washington. He studied ceramics at the California College of Arts and Craft (now CCA), earning his BFA in 1974. Following his graduation, Moore headed to the newly formed Pilchuck Glass School where he met his early mentor Dale Chihuly, who was also the head of the glass department at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Moore enrolled at RISD and completed his MFA in glass in 1977. From there, he travelled to Murano, Italy, where he ...

Marioni, Paul, 1941-

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Paul Marioni is an American artist who works in the medium of glass. Marioni graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1967 with a degree in philosophy. He became a filmmaker, then started working with glass when he became interested in light, reflection, refraction, and expression. One of the founders of the studio-glass movement, Marioni is a Fellow of the American Craft Council and has received three fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts. He has taught at Penland School of ...

Libenský, Stanislav, 1921-2002

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Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová were contemporary artists. Their works are included in many major modern art collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Jaroslava Brychtová, a sculptor, and Stanislav Libenský, originally a painter and later a glass artist, met in 1954. They married in 1963 and worked together until Libenský's death on February 24, 2002. Libenský painted and sketched the designs, and Brychtová made clay sculptures from his...

Gudenrath, William

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William Gudenrath is a glassblower, scholar, author, lecturer, and teacher. He is recognized internationally as one of the foremost authorities on glassmaking techniques of the ancient world through the 18th century. He has spent many decades studying specific works in glass in an attempt to determine how they were made. As such, he was monikered the “glass detective” by the Associated Press after the release of his first electronic resource, The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking, ...

Elskus, Albinas, 1926-2007

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Albinas "Albin" Elskus was a Lithuanian-American educator and artist, known for creating works of stained glass. Born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1926, Elskus fled to Germany to avoid being conscripted into the Soviet Army. Elskus began studying architecture in Darmstadt and painting at the Arts et Métiers ParisTech. He immigrated to Chicago, Illinois in 1949 and worked as an apprentice in a stained glass studio. Elskus travelled to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts, before eventually retur...

Bannard, Walter Darby, 1934-2016

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Walter Darby Bannard was an American abstract painter. Bannard was born in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Phillips Exeter Academy (class of 1952)[1] and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, who was also interested in minimalist abstraction. He was associated with Modernism, Lyrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Formalism (art), Post-painterly Abstraction and Color Field painting. Bannard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 196...

Antonakos, Stephen, 1926-2013

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Stephen Antonakos was a Greek born American sculptor most well known for his abstract sculptures often incorporating neon. Antonakos moved with his family from Greece to the United States at the age of 4 and was raised in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Bay Ridge. Antonakos' work has been included in several important international exhibitions including Documenta 6 in 1977 in Kassel, Germany and he represented Greece at the Venice Biennale in 1997. His art is included in major inter...

Yelle, Richard Wilfred

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Glass artist and designer Richard Winifred Yelle earned his BFA in 1974 from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and his MFA in 1976 from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied glass with Dale Chihuly. The following year, Yelle cofounded the New York Experimental Glass Workshop (later UrbanGlass) in New York City. In 1983 Yelle earned an MA in arts administration from New York University. Yelle first led the crafts program and later the Product Design Department at Parsons S...

Taylor, Michael E. (Michael Estes), 1944-

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Michael Taylor is an American studio glass artist, teacher and lecturer. His best known body of work is his geometric glass sculptures. He works the glass cold, shaping, polishing and laminating translucent colored and clear blocks of glass together using epoxy resin. Michael Estes Taylor was born in Lewisburg, Tennessee and began to draw at age 12. At age 18 he entered Middle Tennessee University in Murfreesboro where he was awarded a B.S. in art education. He entered graduate school in 1967...

Statom, Therman, 1953-

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Therman Statom is an American Studio Glass artist whose primary medium is sheet glass. He cuts, paints, and assembles the glass - adding found glass objects along the way – to create three-dimensional sculptures. Many of these works are large in scale. Statom is known for his site-specific installations in which his glass structures dwarf the visitor. Sound and projected digital imagery are also features of the environmental works. Therman Statom was born in Winter Haven, Florida in 1953 and ...

Mary, Shaffer, 1947-

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Mary Shaffer (1947- ) is a sculptor and glass artist working in Rhode Island, New York, N.Y., and Maryland. Shaffer is recognized worldwide as one of the founding artists of the American Studio Glass Movement. In the 1970s and 1980s Shaffer taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Wellesley College, and New York University where she was Director of the Crafts Program in the Department of Art and Art Education. She also managed the Art Center at the University of Mary...

Rooney, Alice, 1926-2019

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Born in 1926 in Seattle, Washington, Alice Rooney was a retired arts administrator who led Allied Arts of Seattle, the Pilchuck Glass School, and the Glass Art Society. Rooney studied English with a minor in economics and business at the University of Washington (BA, 1947), and she spent her first years out of school writing radio ads and newsletters for a broadcasting company in New York City. She soon returned to Seattle and worked for more than a decade at Wallace v. MacKay Advertising Compan...

Rainey, Clifford, 1948-

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Clifford Rainey is a Northern Irish glass sculptor. He began his career as a linen damask designer and worked in William Ewarts linen manufacturers from 1965 to 1968. He later studied at Hornsey College of Art, the North East London Polytechnic School of Sculpture, where he specialised in glass sculpture, and the Royal College of Art from where he received an MA. Between 1973 and 1975 he ran his own glass studio in London. In 1975 he won a commission for a small sculpture to commemorate the Silv...

Perreault, John, 1937-2015

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John Lucas Perreault was a poet, art curator, art critic and artist. Perreault was born in Manhattan and raised in Belmar and other towns in New Jersey. He studied briefly at Montclair State Teachers College, after which he enrolled in a poetry workshop at the New School for Social Research. His first book of poetry, Camouflage, was published in 1966, followed by Luck (1969) and Harry (1974). Perreault was an editorial associate for ARTnews in the 1960s, an art critic for The Village Voice (1966...

Myers, Joel Philip, 1934-

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Joel Philip Myers creates work characterized by exquisite craftsmanship and an extraordinarily strong sense of formal design. Joel Philip Myers graduated with honors from the Department of Advertising Design at Parsons School of Design in 1954. After studying ceramic design in Copenhagen, Denmark, Myers earned both a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, NY. In the 1960s, Myers was Director of Design at the renown Blenko Glass Company. From 1970 throu...

McGlauchlin, Tom, 1934-2011

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Mr. McGlauchlin was born on the family farm in Wisconsin on September 14, 1934. His father sold the farm in 1937 and relocated the family to nearby Beloit, where McGlauchlin grew up. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, devoting his first two years to engineering before switching to art. He began his artist career working in ceramics. In 1960 and 1961 he taught colleague and mentor Harvey Littleton’s pottery classes so Littleton could devote his sabbatical to researching glass. Mr....

Mann, Audrey, 1929-2019

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Audrey Mann was born in Chicago in 1929, attending Hyde Park High School, The University of Illinois and Northwestern University where she received a B.S. in English Literature and Art History. Upon moving to Milwaukee in 1956, she immersed herself in the community, working first for the Children's Art Program at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Later she became a museum docent. A major collector of studio art glass, Mrs. Mann demonstrated her expertise and passion on the subject by curating shows o...

MacNeil, Linda, 1954-

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MacNeill was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, a suburb in greater Boston, and studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, the Massachusetts College of Art and received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. She was introduced to glassmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art where she also met her husband, glass and metal sculptor Dan Dailey. She has taught in glass and sculpture programs including the Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Massachusetts C...

Littleton, Harvey K., 1922-2013

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Harvey K. Littleton (1922-2013) was a glass artist, potter, sculptor, and printmaker from Corning, New York. He is often referred to as the father of the Studio Glass Movement. From the description of Oral history interview with Harvey K. Littleton, 2001 Mar. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78709177 Ceramicist, glassmaker, sculptor, educator; Wisconsin. Born 1922. From the description of Harvey K. Littleton papers, 1946-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...

Lipofsky, Marvin, 1938-2016

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Marvin Bentley Lipofsky was an American glass artist. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed in a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 and spring 1963. He was a central figure in the dissemination of the American Studio Glass Movement, introducing it to California through his tenure as an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley and the California College of Arts and Crafts. ...

Klein, Dan, 1938-2009

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Born on November 4, 1938, in Mumbai, India, Klein attended Westminster School (1951-1957) in London and Wadham College, Oxford University (1957-1961), where he earned a bachelor of arts degree and graduated with honors. After leaving Oxford, Klein studied singing and pursued a successful career as an opera singer from 1966 to 1978. Dan was the founding director of North Lands Creative Glass in northeast Scotland, a prolific author on art made from glass, art dealer, and the former director of 20...

Huth, Ursula, 1952-

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Ursula Huth is a German glass sculptor and stained-glass artist. From 1972 until 1979 she studied painting and glass design at State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart (Germany) under H.G. von Stockhausen as well as Art History at Stuttgart University. It was Stockhausen who introduced the material glass to her, prompting her to say "There I could bring my enamels out of the cellar into the light." After she finished her studies the Studio Glass Movement reached Europe. A scholarship of the DAAD (G...

Hafner, Dorothy, 1952-

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Dorothy Hafner is an American ceramist and glass artist. Born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, Hafner earned her bachelor's degree from Skidmore College in 1974, also completing graduate work at that institution. She next worked as a production manager for the International Craft Film Festival, and beginning in 1976 served as director of the international department of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York City. For the two years following she was artist-in-residence at Artpark in Lewiston, N...

Grebe, Robin, 1957-

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Robin Grebe was born in Newark, NJ in 1957. She has a MFA in Ceramics/Glass from Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania and a BFA in Ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts. Robin has taught glass and ceramics at the Massachusetts College of Art and Pilchuck School of Glass among others. Well respected in her community, Grebe has had exhibitions and/or collected by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Morris Museum i...

Glick, Marilyn, 1922-2012

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Marilyn K. Glick sometimes called it her “addiction”—a love of studio glass artwork that began in the 1980s and blossomed over the decades into one of the nation’s most notable collections. She stoked her passion by meeting artists, traveling to their studios, and steeping herself in the traditions of the medium. Many of her most notable pieces, from such innovative artists as Dominick Labino and Bertil Vallien, are on display at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Her devotion to the future of the ...

Dailey, Dan, 1947-

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Dan Dailey's career in glass has spanned more than 40 years. Emerging from the Studio Glass movement initiated by Harvey Littleton, Dailey's work has branched out from the mainstream by the incorporation of metal into many of the sculptures. Additionally, he has worked with several glass companies, in particular as an independent artist/ designer for Crisallerie Daum, France, for more than twenty years. He has taught at many glass programs and is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts College o...

Chihuly, Dale, 1941-

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Dale Chihuly, who was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1941, has become an internationally celebrated personality in contemporary art and design whose prominence in the field of contemporary studio glass is unmatched. Chihuly began experimenting with glassblowing in 1965, and in 1966 he received a full scholarship to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied under Harvey Littleton and in 1967, he received a Master of Science degree in sculpture. After graduating, he enrolled at ...

Cash, Sydney David, 1941-

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Howard, Ben Tré, 1949-2020

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Howard Ben Tré was an American glass artist. He worked with poured glass, creating small sculptures and large scale public artworks. In the 1970s Ben Tré left New York with his wife, Gay, for Oregon. At Portland State University he learned about the university's well-known glass-blowing shop and began studying the creation process, finding influence in religious objects. He would obtain his bachelor's degree at Portland State. Dale Chihuly recruited Ben Tré to the Rhode Island School of Desig...

Carpenter, James, 1949-

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James Carpenter graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in sculpture in 1972. He studied with Dale Chihuly and works at James Carpenter Design Associates....

Brekke, John S., 1955-

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John Brekke attended The Art Institute of Chicago and then the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is an expert glassblower, usually creating large works that make extensive use of the Swedish Graal technique. Brekke has received numerous awards and grants, and has recently spent a year teaching glassblowing in Australia. His work is in the collections of the American Craft Museum in New York City and The Corning Museum of Glass....

Bosworth, Thomas L. (Thomas Lawrence), 1930-

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Bosworth was born and raised in Oberlin, Ohio, where his father and grandfather were ministers and faculty members. Bosworth received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, where he studied architectural history with an emphasis on classical architecture and graduated with a B.A. in 1952. He attended Princeton University graduate school studying art and archaeology, but returned to Oberlin after a year and earned his M.A in 1954. After military service, he studied briefly at Harvard Univ...

Chambers, Karen S., 1948-

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Karen S. Chambers is best known for her work as a writer, editor, and curator on the subject of fine art, craft, and design, including contemporary glass art. Born in 1948, she earned an M.A. in Art History from the University of Cincinnati. She has worked in museums and galleries in the Midwest and New York City. She was editor of New Work magazine in the 1980s and has conducted interviews with a number of contemporary glass artists over the years. ...