Press Releases 2007
Winter Fellows Arrive
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THE CREATIVE
GLASS CENTER
OF AMERICA
ANNOUNCES SELECTION OF 2007 WINTER SESSION
FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
MILLVILLE, NJ – The first group of
Creative Glass Center of America Fellows for 2007 have arrived at WheatonArts
to develop and refine their techniques towards new or expanded work. Their
session began January 8 and will continue to April 6. 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.
Stine Bidstrup, a Danish artist
who recently completed the Rhode Island School of Design’s post-baccalaureate
program, received her B.A. from the Glass and Ceramic
School on Bornholm.
She has been a volunteer glassblower in Pilchuck Glass
School’s 2003 auction
centerpiece program, a student in 2004, and a teaching assistant for Jeffrey
Sarmiento in 2006. At RISD she developed a growing interest in combining glass
with other media and disciplines, such as video installation, sculpture and
photography. She has continued to explore how vision is intrinsically linked
with the human body, and how the ephemeral qualities of glass can convey
aspects of this inquiry. Through her travels to the U.S., Bidstrup has had the chance
to work with artists such as Rachel Berwick, Jocelyne Prince, Harumi Yukutake
and Jack Wax.
Elaine Miles is an early career Australian glass
artist working with glass and sound installations. She is trained in Venetian
blowing techniques and is currently creating Australia’s first glass
orchestra. Utilizing collaborations with new music percussionists and
sound engineers, Miles creates live performance based exhibitions using
original experimental sound compositions inspired by hand blown glass. She
has been practicing as a professional glass artist exhibiting work
internationally since 2001 and is a recipient of several major grants and awards,
including an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship, International Travel
and New Work Development grants for the Australia Council and the Ian Potter
Foundation. She has also received International Touring support from Arts
Victoria. She currently lectures in glassblowing at Monash
University in Australia.
Atsuko Tajima lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She
received her BFA in Light and Glass from Alfred
University in New York. She then attended Pilchuck Glass School
and Penland School of Craft where she also served as a teaching assistant.
Tajima has exhibited internationally including the East-West
International Art
Center in Vladivostok,
Russia; Gallery21 in Tokyo, Japan;
the Ruby Green
Contemporary Art
Center in Nashville,
TN; National
Liberty Museum
in Philadelphia, PA;
and the Glass Gallery, Bethesda,
MD. She is also a recipient
of the Contemporary Glass Philadelphia Award. In her work she explores the
themes of healing, dream and energy.
Following graduation from the Cleveland Institute
of Art in 2002, with a BFA in Glass, Thaddeus Wolfe, relocated to New York, NY,
and began working with artists Jeff Zimmerman and Josiah McElheny. He has
executed glass sculptures for a variety of New York artists, including conceptual
landscape designer Paula Hayes, and painter Shimon Okshteyn, with whom he has
worked extensively. He collaborated with Okshteyn on a series of sculptures
exhibited February 2006 at New York’s
Stefan Stux Gallery.
The Fellows will present a slide show of their work
followed by a demonstration in the Glass Studio, February 9, 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 250 professional and emerging artists have been
recipients of a CGCA fellowship, nearly 200 from the U.S. and over 20 foreign countries.
For more information, call the Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts
at 800-998-4552 or 856-825-6800, ext. 106. Web site: www.wheatonarts.org.
WheatonArts 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. WheatonArts
received a general operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical
Commission, a division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State.
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