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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.
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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”

Janice Peacock Artist Bio

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Janice Peacock started working glass in 1992 at the Fenton Glass Studio with Brian Kirkvliet and has been working in glass in California for 20 years.
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Janice Peacock started flameworking in 1992.  She creates small sculptures and beads using Italian soda-lime glass that incorporate glass powders and metal foils, giving each piece an ancient look.

In 2011 Janice was selected as an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA.  During her project, called  “A Matter Scale,” she worked with glass blowers in the museum’s studio to experiment with scale – both large and small.  In 2012 the magazine “The Glass Bead,” published by the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB), featured an extensive article on the process in which “A Matter of Scale” was developed and executed.

Janice’s work has been displayed in several group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Additionally, her work as been featured in many books and magazines, including the recent Glass Line magazine edition which selected her as one of the top 40 international glass bead makers.

In 2010 the national magazine “Bead and Button” featured Ms. Peacock in an artist profile called “Facing the Muse.” This article recounts Janice’s journey after leaving the world of glass, only to return a better, more energized artist.

Janice travels nationally to teach intermediate and advanced glass bead making and flameworking. She has been a featured speaker at the California Glass Exchange, ISGB national conferences in 2002 and 2009, and for many other glass organizations, as well as several bead societies.

Janice has been a resident of San Francisco Bay area since 1987.  She grew up in Southern California and received two Bachelor of Arts degrees and one Master of Arts degree from U.C. Santa Barbara. She lives with her husband Jeff, her daughter Kiera, three cats and a few chickens.

“Antelope”
Janice Peacock
2011
Furnace Blown Glass, Glass Reduction Powders
24 “ x 13” x 7”

“Burmese Buddha”
Janice Peacock
2011
Flameworked soda lime glass, glass powders, enamels
2.5” x 1.5” x 1”

 

Kier Lugo Artist Bio

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Started working in glass in 1997 at Palomar Community College in San Marcos, CA.

Kier Lugo is Senior Studio Manager and head of the Glass Blowing program at The Crucible where he also teaches in the foundry department. As the son of an art teacher, he grew up taking art classes and working in a multitude of different art media. Kier began blowing glass in 1997 at Palomar Community College in San Marcos California, and attended glass blowing workshop with Fritz Dreisbach in 1999 at Red Deer College in Alberta Canada.

After relocating to the Eastbay in 2003, he began volunteering at The Crucible while attending SFSU where he later graduated with a BFA in Sculpture in 2007. Over the Years Kier has worked for a number of production glass studios and glass artists in both southern and northern California, including the Penland School of Craft, session 5 summer 2012 as Studio Assistant for Jacob and Arlo Fishman.  At the moment Kier focuses much of his energy toward continuing to build up and improve The Crucible glass blowing program which he founded nearly two years ago. Once he finds some spare time, Kier plans on making art.

“Ocean Luster Bowl and Glasses”
Kier Lugo
July 2012
Blown Soda Lime Glass
cups: 5″ x 2.75″
bowl: 9″ x 8″

Mary White Artist Bio

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Started working in glass in 1968 at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA) in Oakland, CA.

Mary B. White is a California Bay Area sculptor/arts educator, co-head of The Crucible Glass Department in Oakland and serves as Chair of the board of the Women Environmental Artists Directory. She headed the San Jose State University’s School of Art and Design Glass Program from 1985 to 2005 and served on the Board of the Glass Art Society. 2009-10 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. Her focus is to link art making and environmental issues.

Although she began her formal education at Earlham College in Indiana, Viola Frey’s sculpture work compelled her to move west where she got her BFA in Ceramics and Teaching credential from CCA.  During that time, in 1968, she began studying glass with Marvin Lipofsky and Ruth Tamura. After graduation in 1972 she helped Michael Cohn and Randy Strong build a cooperative hot glass studio.  She was the first woman in the East Bay to set up her own glass blowing shop (1974) and taught graphics at an inner city Oakland high school half time.  In 1982 she earned a MFA in Glass at the California College of the Arts, studying with Marvin Lipofsky.  
She headed up San Jose State University’s School of Art and Design Glass Program from 1985 to 2005. She served on the Board of the Glass Art Society, and co-organized the 1995 Oakland GAS conference, and the 2002 Californina Glass Exchange.

Upon retiring from SJSU, she refocused her energies at The Crucible.  In 2009-2010, on the Fulbright, she co-taught a seminar on The Landscapes of Aesthetics and Design, with 19 graduate students and Irish Crafts Council members, utilizing glass, ceramic and textile, with the aim of sharpening their critical thinking skills and linking crafts and community action.

“Gilbert White Memorial Flood Level Marker”
Mary White
2011
Glass, Steel, Stone, Concrete
24” x 24” x 18′

“Living on Fault Lines and Pacific Currents”
Mary White
2006
Recycled Float Glass and Steel
40” x 30” x 68”