Press Releases 2006

Meet Our New Fellows

THE CREATIVE GLASS CENTER OF AMERICA AT WHEATON VILLAGE WELCOMES NEW FELLOWS

MILLVILLE, NJ – The Creative Glass Center of America welcomed the second group of new Fellows for 2006. Each artist will be in residence May 1 through July 28 developing and refining techniques towards new or expanded work. They will have unrestricted access to the Glass Studio in the T. C. Wheaton Glass Factory and materials for creating blown, cast and kiln-formed glass.

Piper Brett attended Pilchuck Glass School in Washington from 1998 to 2003 as staff, teaching assistant, artist’s assistant, and scholarship student, studying with William Morris, Karen Willenbrink, Randy Walker, and Mitchell Gaudet. Brett has worked on glassblowing teams for Dale Chihuly, Nancy Callan, Beth Lipman, and Hank Adams as gaffer and assistant to their artworks. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Art degree in glass from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2004. During this time she was awarded the Pilchuck Partnership Award and various Department Awards for excellence. She also spent a year studying sculpture with Mike Newby, beginning her investigations in mediums outside of glass. In recent years, she has participated in several group exhibitions in Boston, MA, and Seattle, WA. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

Ayako Ikeda was born in Kumamoto, Japan, and earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts in living design and architecture from The University of Shiga Prefecture in Japan. Her glass art studies began in 2001 at the Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, the first public institution in Japan specializing in the field of glass art. Since completing her studies in 2003, Ikeda has traveled extensively and worked with many glass artists from all over the world. Her work has been exhibited in Japan and the U.S. in many group exhibitions, including the Enomoto Gallery at Osaka and Milestone Gallery at Toyama. In 2004, she moved to the U.S. to pursue her career as a glass artist. She has been an instructor at Hot Soup Studio and Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, and received a grant from the Contemporary Glass Philadelphia in 2005. In 2004, with Christopher Lydon, she co-founded Glassboss Studio, a limited production company creating contemporary blown glass objects.

Yasuko Miyazaki grew up in Mie prefecture in Japan. She currently lives in Nishiharu city in Aich prefecture and is pursuing her Master of Fine Art, majoring in glass art, at Nagoya University of Arts, where she obtained her Bachelor of Fine Art in 2004. Miyazaki had a solo exhibition at Gallery AGALUTA in Aichi, Japan in 2005 and has also participated in several group exhibitions in Japan. She has been an assistant to Michael Scheiner and taught a glass jewelry class in 2004.

Andrew Newbold recently received his Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA, where he is now teaching. Before his move to the Philadelphia area, Andrew worked at the Phoenix Glass Studio in Tampa, FL, and then became affiliated with Glass Axis in Columbus, OH, teaching classes and maintaining the facility as the studio technician. His most recent installation, “Transitions,” was a solo exhibition at Tower Investments Gallery in Philadelphia. It consisted of large-scale architectural forms inspired by an industrial urban environment, utilizing both blown and kilnformed glass techniques. In addition to exhibiting widely throughout Philadelphia and Ohio in 2005, Newbold received a grant from Contemporary Glass Philadelphia, The Jack Malis Glass Award, The Steve Stormer Memorial Fund Cash Award, and the Tower Investments Juried Exhibition Cash Award.

The Fellows will present a slide show of their work followed by a hot glass demonstration in the Glass Studio, May 26, at 7 p.m. Admission is free for the general public. Light refreshments will be available.

The CGCA has serviced glass artists and the arts community since 1983. Over 225 professional and emerging artists have been recipients of a CGCA fellowship, 185 from the U.S. and over 15 foreign countries.

For more information, call the Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Village at 800-998-4552 or 856-825-6800, ext. 106, or visit www.wheatonvillage.org.

Wheaton Village strives to ensure the accessibility of its exhibitions, events and programs to all persons   with disabilities. Provide two weeks notice for special accommodations.

Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Wheaton Village received a general operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State. Additional funds provided by the New Jersey Cultural Trust.

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