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2014 Visiting Artist Series
Each year the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio Visiting Artist Series brings some of the world’s top glass art talent to the Coastal Virginia area. The 2014 lineup, detailed below, included a long-time figure in the American Studio Glass movement, an innovative artist who has been blowing glass since he was 13, a long-time colleague of Lino Tagliapietra and a woman who has worked with top artists all around the world.
Richard Marquis
June 5–8
You know you’ve had a good career when you have not one but two lifetime achievement awards. So it goes with Richard Marquis, one of the first Americans to ever work in a Venetian glass factory, and a major player in the American Studio Glass movement.
Born in Arizona and educated at Cal-Berkeley, his year in Murano, Italy came as the result of a 1969 Fulbright Scholarship. By 2010 his fame had grown to the point where he had come full circle. He had a solo exhibition in Venice.
His work often contains an element of humor, and he has pieces in museum collections across the United States and around the world. You can find his work not only in museums with strong glass collections but also in places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York or London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
Martin Janecky
Aug. 7–10
Martin Janecky’s father was a technician in a Czechoslovakian glass factory, and even though what was being produced was completely functional, he found something mesmerizing about molten glass. No surprise he started blowing glass when he was just 13.
This native of the Czech Republic is rapidly making a name for himself as both an artist and as an instructor. Recent American teaching stints include the Corning Museum of Glass, Toledo Museum of Art, Pilchuck Glass School and the Penland School of Crafts, NC. International teaching stints include stops in Holland, Turkey, Japan, and India.
Janecky is currently based in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Nancy Callan & Katherine Gray
Nov. 13–16
Nancy Callan and Katherine Gray are highly respected artists who travel extensively as part of the glass art scene and are considered among the finest glassblowers working in the United States today.
For more than a decade, Callan has been a member of Lino Tagliapietra’s glassblowing team and has traveled throughout the world as his assistant. Her work can be found in many museums and private collections, including the personal collection of Elton John.
Gray is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and has won numerous awards. She originally studied furniture and lighting, but after investigating glass to get better at that kind of work, she fell in love with glass art. As she once put it: “I’m fascinated that glass is this ubiquitous material whose main purpose is to be invisible.”
