About the Artist

"The uses of glass are as limitless as the artists inventivness"

I have been a pioneering glass artist since 1968. I earned my BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, my MFA from George Washington University, and completed post-graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin. In 1969, I founded the glass program at Kent State University, where I taught for 29 years before retiring in 1998. Since then, I have devoted my time to my studio practice—and to refining my golf game.

I was a co-founder and the first president of the Glass Art Society. In 2008, I received the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual conference in Portland, Oregon. I am a Fellow of the American Crafts Council and was honored with the Ohio Governor’s Award for the Arts in 1994, as well as the President’s Medal for Outstanding Achievement from Kent State University in 1998.

My work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, and is represented in major public and private collections worldwide. Permanent collections that include my work are the Cleveland Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution and the Smithsonian Institution Renwick Gallery, the Detroit Institute of Art, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Hokkaido and Niijima Glass Museums in Japan, and the Museum of Decorative Arts in the Czech Republic.

My work is included in the collections of the following museums.