vitals

Studio:
Cambridge MA 02140 USA

Education:
1961 George Washington University, Washington DC, A.B. in Anthropology and Sociology
1956-57 Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh PA, Dept.of Painting and Design

Born 1939 in Washington DC
Married, Jerry Cohen (1959), 2 children, Raines and Ann.

awards and honors

1995 Fellow, Creative Glass Center of America, Millville NJ
1989 Finalist, Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program
1980 Artist-in-residence, Hudson High School, Hudson MA
1979 Artist-in-residence, Chelmsford House, sponsored by Dept. of Youth Services, Boston MA
1975 Grant from Blanche E. Colman Foundation, Boston MA
1974 Artist-in-residence, Boston's Esplanade, sponsored by Inst. of Contemporary Art, Boston MA

slide lectures

2002 ArtsFirst, Boston MA
2000 National Glass Club, Chestnut Hill MA
1999 Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich MA
1997 Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich MA
1996 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
1995 Renwick Gallery, Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Inst.,DC
1994 SOFA Exposition, Chicago IL
1994 Massachusetts College of Art, Glass Dept., Boston MA
1993 Tokyo Glass Art Institute, Japan
1988 Heller Gallery "Glass America 1988" seminar, New York
1981 School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
1976 University of Massachusetts/Boston, sponsored by campus Art Club

workshops

1996 "Painting on Both Sides of the Glass," (with Judy Jensen), G.A.S.Conference workshop, Boston MA
1995 "Stacked Painted Glass," Renwick Associates, Washington DC
1993 "3-D Art from 2-D Glass", Creative Glass Co., Zurich Switzerland
1982 "Explore 82" construction sculpture course for gifted students, grades 4-8, Newton MA
1978 Automotive custom-painting workshop, Tri-City Tech-Voc High School, Franklin MA
Bicycle spray-painting and decorating workshops in Lexington and Newton MA
1977 Automotive custom-painting workshop, Newton North High School, Newton MA
1976 Shadow Art workshop at The Gloucester Experimental alternative school, Gloucester MA

art-related employment

1987-present: Full-time studio artist (glass)
1978-86: Studio artist (steel, paper collage, drawings), represented by Creiger-Sesen Associates, Boston MA, and Contemporary Art Consultants, Chestnut Hill MA
1976-80: Free-lance automotive decorative or "custom" painting of vans, motorcycles and trucks
1960-62: Asst. archivist, photographic archives of Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

solo exhibitions

1995

Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington DC

1994

Heller Gallery, New York NY

1993

Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington DC

Galerie Waldrich, Munich Germany

Galerie L, Hamburg Germany

1992

Sanske Galerie, Zurich Switzerland

1991

Heller Gallery, New York NY

Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington DC

1990

Sanske Galerie, Zurich Switzerland

1989

Heller Gallery, New York NY

1987

Heller Gallery, New York NY

Washington Art Association, Washington Depot CT

1980

Lopoukhine-Nayduch Gallery, Boston MA

Newton Free Library, Newton MA

1978

Fitchburg (MA) State College Gallery

1974

Boston Architectural Center, Boston MA

1971

First Unitarian Church, Beverly MA Public Library, Beverly MA

group exhibitions (glass only)

2002

"Contemporary Directions", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA

2000

"Glass! Glorious Glass!", Renwick Gallery of Smithsonian's Museum of American Art, Washington DC

1999

"The Changing Face of Women's Health", Maryland Science Center, Baltimore MD; traveling exhibition to 10 science museums over next 5 years.
"Illusions in Glass," Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston MA
Maurine Littleton Gallery exhibit, SOFA Exposition, New York NY and Chicago IL

1998

Maurine Littleton Gallery exhibit, SOFA Exposition, New York NY

1997

Maurine Littleton Gallery exhibit, SOFA Exposition, Chicago IL

"Glass by American Studio Artists", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
"Calido!", Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ and traveling to other museums 1997-98
Glass America 1997, Heller Gallery, New York NY

1996

"Face & Figure," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Maurine Littleton Gallery exhibit, SOFA Exposition, Chicago IL
Avon Place Glass, Cambridge MA
Installation of local contemporary glass art for G.A.S. Conference, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Glass America 1996, Heller Gallery, New York NY

1995

"Mediated Memories," Jewish Comm. Ctr., Newton MA
Maurine Littleton Gallery exhibit, SOFA Exposition, Chicago IL
Glass America 1995, Heller Gallery, New York NY

1994

"Vingt-cinq Verriers a Nonfoux," Verrerie de Nonfoux,Switzerland
"Internationale Kunstobjekte aus Glas," Spectrum Kultur- und Gewerbezentrum, Spiez, Switzerland
"Einzigartige Kunstobjekte aus Glas," Warenhaus Loeb,Bern, Switzerland
"Transparency Transformed," (2-person show with Linda Lichtman) Duxbury Art Complex and Museum, Duxbury MA
"World Glass Now," Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido Japan
"Glass America 1994," Heller Gallery, New York NY
"Transparent Translucent Opaque," Starr Gallery, Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Newton MA
Maurine Littleton Gallery exhibit, SOFA Exposition, Chicago IL

1993

Heller Gallery, Palm Beach FL
Maurine Littleton Gallery exhibit, New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago IL
"Material Vision: Image and Object," Tarble Arts Center, E. Illinois Univ., Charleston IL. Curated by Kathleen Browne.
"Glass Forms," Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton MA. Curated by Gretchen Keyworth.
"Glass America 1993," Heller Gallery, New York NY

1992

"Exposition Le Verre Contemporain," Rouen, France. Curated by Catherine Vaudour.
"Glass Invitational," Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge MA
Maurine Littleton Gallery exhibit, New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago IL
"Glass America 1992," Heller Gallery, New York NY

1991

"Mass. Glass," Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge MA
"Glass America 1991," Heller Gallery, New York NY

1990

"Hanukkah Windows 1990," Starr Gallery, Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Newton MA
Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto Canada
"Stockbridge Glass Invitational," Holsten Gallery,Stockbridge MA
Holsten Gallery, Palm Beach FL
"The '90s:Seen Through Glass," Hastings-on-Hudson Art Center, NY
"The Eccentric Teapot," San Francisco International Airport, CA
"Seeing is Believing?", Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton MA
Heller Gallery exhibit, New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago IL
"Glass America 1990," Heller Gallery, New York NY

1989

Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto Canada
"New Glass," Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco CA
Heller Gallery exhibit, New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago IL
"International Invitational," Habatat Gallery,Lathrup Village MI
"Glass America 1989,Heller Gallery New York NY

1988

"Contemporary Glassmakers and Ancient Glass," Hamilton College, Clinton NY
"12th Biennial Crafts Invitational," Illinois State University
Heller Gallery exhibit, New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago IL
"International Invitational," Habatat Gallery,Lathrup Village MI
"Palm Beach Invitational," Holsten Gallery, Palm Beach FL

1987

Habatat Gallery exhibit, New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago IL
"Glass America 1987," Heller Gallery, New York NY
"Women's Drawings from the Collection," Boston Public Library, Boston MA
Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge MA