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Pamina Traylor Artist Bio

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Pamina Traylor started working in glass at San Francisco State University in 1989.
www.paminatraylor.com

Pamina Traylor is an artist and educator, currently Interim Chair of the Glass Program at California College of the Arts where she has been a member of the faculty since 1995.  In the fall of 2007, she was a visiting artist and faculty member at the Osaka University of Art. She also served as a member of the Glass Art Society’s board of directors from 2003 – 2011, and treasurer beginning in 2006.  She earned her M.F.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, with additional studies at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, and San Francisco State University.

The Creative Glass Center of America awarded her a fellowship in both 2003 and 1995.  She received CCA Faculty Travel or Development Grants in 2011, 2007, and 1998.  She has lectured and demonstrated at schools in Australia, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan and has taught workshops throughout the world, including The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, and The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, among others.

Her work is in the permanent collection of the Benton Museum of Art, CT; The Museum of American Glass, NJ; The Speed Art Museum, KY; Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taiwan; and Cam Ocagi, Istanbul.  She was featured on KQED public television’s SPARK program, “By Hand”.

 


Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend Artist Bio

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Started working in glass in 1973 in Austin, TX, and has been working in California for 24 years.
www.facebook.com/susan.stinsmuehlenamend

Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, a past board member of the Glass Art Society (1982-86) and an Honorary Life Member, served as the first woman president from 1984-86.  Her work in glass and mixed media, architectural glass, hot glass and public art is included in many private collections and public institutions including the LA County Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Oakland Museum of California, Museum of Art and Design, NY, and City of Los Angeles among others. Stinsmuehlen-Amend has taught at the Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA for many years (1980-1997, 2005, 2007-08, 2011) and has been a visiting artist at RISD, RIT, Tyler School of Art, CA College of the Arts, CA State Universities San Bernadino and Fullerton, Massachusetts College of Art, Ohio and Illinois Universities, The Pittsburgh Glass Center, North Lands Creative Glass (Scotland) and numerous other glass and public art conferences.  A Trustee Emeritus of The American Craft Council, she has served as Chair and member of the Arts Commission for the City of Ojai, CA for over a decade and recently has been appointed to the Pilchuck Board.  She is a past recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Pilchuck Glass School Hauberg Fellowships (2001 and 2012), the 2007 Libensky Award, and 2006 Artist Residencies at Pilchuck and the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington.

In her review from Glass Quarterly for Stinsmuehlen-Amend’s 2007 solo exhibition at D&A Fine Arts in Los Angeles, Annie Buckley writes about her recent work:

“Words and images are frozen in place, suspended in the glass as
unmoving as an obsessive worry or a tune you can’t get out of your head. Whether a pop song or the memory of a whisper, Stinsmuehlen-Amend’s work functions like a visual soundtrack, mapping the unpredictable rhythms of thought.”

“Pastoral Kuklos”
Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend
2011
kiln-fired paint on glass w/ wood support (three layers of glass)
29” x 33” x 3”

“Fluid & Dynamic”
Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend
2011
kiln-fired paint on glass w/ metal support
35” x 20” x 2”