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JANE BRUCE

Born
Buckinghamshire, Great Britain (UK)
1979
Moved to USA
1981
Permanent Resident, USA

EDUCATION

1979 - 81
Post-Graduate Studies, Glass & Ceramics, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, USA
1971 - 73
MA, Glass, Royal College of Art, London, UK
1967 - 70
Diploma of Art & Design, 3D Design, City of Leicester Polytechnic, UK
1965 - 67
Foundation Studies, Buckinghamshire College, UK

GRANTS & AWARDS (since 1985)

2003
Professional Experience Program, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
2002
New Work Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council
Singapore Airlines Grant, Capital Artist Patrons Organisation, Canberra Australia
2001
The Calleen Acquisition Art Award, Cowra Festival Art Awards, Cowra, Australia
2000
Artist-in-Residence, The Studio, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA
1999
Professional Experience Program, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
1998
Visiting Artist / Senior Facilitator, International Young Artists in Glass, Bullseye Glass Co., Portland, USA
1997
Professional Experience Program, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
1996
Artist Space Project, Megalo Access Arts, Canberra, Australia
1991
Residency Grant, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, USA
Masterworks Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, NJ, USA
Professional Development Grant, Empire State Crafts Alliance, NY, USA
1989
Visual Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, USA
Visual Artist Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, USA
Masterworks Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, NJ, USA
1985
Artist-in-Residence, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, NY, USA

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (Public)

Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA

Mobile Museum of Art, AL, USA

Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA, USA

Goodyear Rubber Corporation, Akron, OH, USA

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, USA

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec, Canada

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Permanent Collection, Crafts Council of Great Britain, London, UK

Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingseinford, UK

North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland

Kunstsammlunger der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany

Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia

Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, Australia

The Calleen Art Collection, Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, Australia

The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
'Contained Abstraction', Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
2005
'Sentinels', Palette Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA
2004
Function Non-Function', Galerie Jean-Claude Chapelotte, Luxembourg
2000
'GlassMasters 2000', CoolArts Gallery, Corning, NY, USA
1996
'Truth and Consequences', Miller Gallery, New York, USA
1993
Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, USA
1992
Kurland/Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Braggiotti Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991
Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
1990
Anne O'Brien Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Kurland/Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1989
Galerie Elena Lee, Montreal, Canada
1988
Anne O'Brien Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
1982
Gallery for Visual Arts, Ohio University, Lancaster, OH, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected – since 1990)

2010
'Glass Quake', Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
'A Glass Act: First Rate Glass from RAM's Collection', Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA
'Studio Glass: Anna and Joe Mandel Collection', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec, Canada
2009
'Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection', Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
'Due North', Bullseye Gallery, Portland OR, USA
2008
'Glass Quake', Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
'The Glass House and Its Tree', Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK
'In Essence', Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007
'Celebrating Connections: Contemporary Glass by Mid Atlantic Artist', Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ, USA
2006
'Bullseye @ North Lands @ SOFA, Chicago, USA
'Northern Light', Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
'Reflections – A Decade of North Lands Creative Glass', Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
2005
'21st Century British Glass', Daniel Katz Gallery, London, UK
'Seeds of Light', Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
'The Cutting Edge: cut & engraved glass', Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Initiative & Touring Exhibition, Australia
2004
'Something Different', Uvegpiramis Galeria, Buda-Pest, Hungry
'Collect', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
2003
'Hot Glass 2003', Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
'Fresh', Heller Gallery, New York, USA
2002
'Transparent Things', traveling exhibition, initiated by National Gallery of Australia & Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia
'Facets of Australian Glass', Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, NY, USA
2001
'Cutting Edge', Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
'Canberra-Milano', Scalette di Vetro, Milan, Italy
'Glassworks 2001', Marta Hewitt Gallery, Louisville, KY, USA
2000
'Vibrant Visions', Marta Hewitt Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA
18th Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, USA
'Fusion', Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
'Summer Show', Dekad Galleri Glassett, Stockholm, Sweden
1999
'Vetro al Femminlle', Galleria Marina Barovier, Venice, Italy
17th Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, USA
'Essentially Canberra', Object Galleries, Sydney, Australia, Hsinchu International Glass Festival, Taiwan & LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts Gallery, Singapore
1998
'A Passion for Glass: The Aviva & Jack A. Robinson Studio Glass Collection', The Detroit Institute of Arts, USA
'Australian and New Zealand Glass-Selected Artists', Gallery Enomoto, Osaka, Japan
'Latitudes II', Seiko City, Japan, & Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
'Venezia Aperto Verto 98', Venice, Italy
'Glass UK', Contemporary British Glass', National Glass Center, Sunderland, Great Britain
1997
'Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection', Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
'Australian Glass', Galerie Rob van den Doel, Den Hague, The Netherlands
1996
'Canberra Glass', Australian Embassy, Washington, DC, & SOFA, Chicago, USA
1995
'Latitudes', Bullseye Connection, Portland, OR, USA & Craftspace, Sydney, & Craft ACT, Canberra, Australia
'Let's Play House: Artists and The Domestic Environment', Wastum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI, USA
'The Art of Painted Glass', Habatat Galleries, Aspen, CO, USA
'International Invitational', Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, USA
1994
'World Glass Now '94', Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan
'Glass America', Heller Gallery, New York, USA
1993
'Artists from the Glass Workshop', Virginia Center for the Craft Arts, Richmond, USA
1990
'A Season of Light: Contemporary Developments in Glass', Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, USA

PUBLISHED WORK

2009
'Many Hands Make Light Work', Glass Art Society Conference 2008 presentation, Glass Art Society Journal, Seattle, USA
2008
'Softness & Grace', essay, Takashi & Youko Sano exhibition catalogue, Chappell Gallery, New York, USA
2005
'New Glass Review' Juror's Statement, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA
1995
'Letter From Oz', Glass Quarterly, Volumes 2 & 3. Published by Ruth T. Summers, Los Angeles, USA
1978
'Work in Progress', published by the Crafts Council of Great Britain to accompany touring exhibition of same name

TEACHING / ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2010
Visiting Faculty, Glass Department, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada
2008 - 09
Coordinator/Instructor, Survey of Glass, Pratt Institute @ UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, USA
2006
Acting Chair/Visiting Artist, Glass Department, California College of the Arts, Oakland, USA
2002 - 04
Senior Lecturer, Glass Workshop, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
2000 - 02
Head of Workshop, Glass Workshop, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
1994 - 00
Lecturer, Glass Workshop, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Australia
1994
Visiting Faculty, Winter Session, Glass Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
1985 - 93
Program Coordinator/Instructor, Glass, Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University, USA
1981 - 85
Visiting Artist/Program Coordinator, Glass, School of Art and Design, Ohio University, Athens, USA.
1973 - 79
Lecturer/Program Coordinator, Glass, School of Furniture and Design, Buckinghamshire College, UK

TEACHING / WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, Etc. (selected-since 1985)

2010
Guest Instructor, Parson School of Art/Cooper Hewitt @ Newark Museum & GlassRoots, NJ
2009
Master Class Leader, North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland
Visiting Artist, La Fundación Centro Nacional del Vidrio La Granja, Spain
Visiting Instructor, Helios Studio, Austin, TX
Guest Instructor, 'Topics in Glass', Parson School of Art/Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
2008
'Many Hands Make Light Work', Glass Art Society Conference, Portland, OR
Visiting Artist, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Visiting Artist, GlassForum, Averoy, Norway
Instructor, The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, NY
Visiting Instructor, Helios Studio, Austin, TX
2007
Visiting Artist, GlassForum, Averoy, Norway
Guest Lecturer, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2006
Visiting Artist, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada
Visiting Artist, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Visiting Artist, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Instructor, The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
2005
Visiting Artist, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada
Visiting Artist, Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.), Rochester, NY
Guest Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Guest Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
2004
Instructor, The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, NY
2002
Instructor, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA,
2001
Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
2000
Guest Faculty, Rochester Institute of Technology, @ The Studio, Corning, NY
Visiting Artist, Sheridan College, Toronto, Canada
Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
1999
Art Glass Seminar, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
1997
'Travel Broadens the Mind? The Internationalization of Glass
Education', Glass Art Society Conference, Tucson, AZ
1995
Ausglass Conference, 'Heart of Glass', Adelaide, Australia
1994
'Are We Speaking The Same Language?' Glass America Seminar, Heller Gallery, New York, USA
1993
Visiting Artist/Instructor, Espace Verre, Montreal, Canada
1992
Visiting Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
Visiting Artist, Espace Verre, Montreal, Canada
1991
Visiting Artist/Instructor, AR.CO Centro de Arte E Communicacao Visual, Lisbon, Portugal
Visiting Scholar, Ceramics Department, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
1990
Visiting Artist, Davenport Museum of Art, IA, USA
1989
Visiting Artist, AR.CO Centro de Arte E Communicacao Visual, Lisbon, Portugal
Guest Critic, Ceramics Department, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
1988
Instructor, Penland School, Penland, NC, USA
1987
Visiting Artist, Metiers D'Art du Quebec a Montreal, Canada

PROGRAM EXPERIENCE

2005 – 09
Director of Programming, GlassRoots, Newark NJ
2003 - 07
Artistic Director, North Lands Creative Glass, Caithness, Scotland
1992 - 94
Education Director, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY
1986 – 90
Program Coordinator, The New York Experimental Glass Workshop, New York, NY

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2006
Co-Curator, 'Distance Connection', Pismo Gallery, Denver, CO
2004
Juror, New Glass Review, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY,
1997
Curator, Australian/New Zealand Artists in Glass, International Expo, Glass Art Society, Tucson, AZ
1989
Guest Curator, "Form Over Function", Rye Art Center, NY,
1986
Guest Curator, "Contemporary Glass", University of Southern Maine, ME
1984
Juror, 'Crosscurrents', Ogleby Institute, Wheeling, WV, USA

RELATED EXPERIENCE

1986 – 90
Publisher, Glass Magazine, UrbanGlass (formerly The New York Experimental Glass Workshop), New York, NY
1985 – 86
Advertising Manager, New Work Magazine, New York, NY
1973 - 79
Partner, The Glasshouse, London, UK

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2005 - 11
Member, Board of Directors, UrbanGlass, New York, NY
2007
Crafts Fellowship Selection Panel, New York Foundation for the Arts
Futures Committee, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA
2002 - 03
International Advisory Board, Glass Artist Association of Canada
2000 - 01
Advisory Board, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, USA
1997 - 99
President, Ausglass, Australian Association of Glass Artists
1995 - 98
Management Committee, CraftACT, Canberra, Australia
Accreditation Panel, CraftACT, Canberra, Australia
1993
Crafts Fellowship Selection Panel, New York Foundation for the Arts
Selection Panel, Empire State Crafts Alliance, New York, USA
1992 - 94
Residency Selection Committee, Creative Glass Center of America, NJ
1992
Visual Arts Fellowship Selection Panel, New Jersey Council on the Arts
1988 - 90
Board of Trustees, Brookfield Craft Center, CT, USA
1988
Visual Arts Fellowship Selection Panel, Connecticut Commission on the Arts
1978 - 79
Chair, World Craft Council-United Kingdom Committee, London, UK
Delegate, Worlds Crafts Council General Assembly '78, Kyoto, Japan
1977 - 79
Board of Management, British Craft Center, London, UK
1977
Co-Founder and Board Member, British Artists in Glass, UK

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
'Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection', Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
'Contemporary Kiln-Formed Glass: A World Survey', A&C Black, London, UK & University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, USA
2008
'Contained Abstraction', solo exhibition catalogue, the Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
'In Essence', exhibition catalogue, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, Australia
'The Glasshouse and Its Tree'. Exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK
2006
'New Glass Review 27', The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
'500 Glass Objects', Lark Books, New York, USA
2005
'25 Years of New Glass Review', The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
21st Century British Glass', Daniel Katz Ltd & Dan Klein Associates, London, UK
'Australian glass today', Wakefield Press, Adelaide, Australia
2004
'American Studio Glass 1960-1990 - An Interpretive study by Martha Drexler Lynn', Hudson Hills Press, Manchester, VT, USA
'The 32nd Annual International Glass Invitational: the Awards Exhibition', Habatat Galleries, MI, USA
2003
'Glass International', Schiffer Publishing Ltd., New York, USA
'New Glass Review 24', Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
2001
'New Glass Review 22', Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
'Primacy of Exploration', Crafts International, issue 51, Design Documentation, Australia
2000
'70s Decorative Arts: A Source Book', Taschen Publishing, Koln, Germany
'Contemporary Art from UrbanGlass', Schiffer Publishing Ltd., New York, USA.
1999
'New Glass Review 20', Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
1998
'A Passion for Glass : The Aviva & Jack A. Robinson Studio Glass Collection', The Detroit Institute of Arts, USA
'Latitudes II', Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
'Essentially Canberra', Glass Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
'Glass UK', Contemporary British Glass, National Glass Center, Sunderland, UK
'The Story of Studio Glass', Finn Lynggaard (editor), Rhodos, Denmark
1997
'New Glass Review 18', Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
'Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection', Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
1996
Feature article: GLASS Magazine, # 66, UrbanGlass, New York, USA
'New Glass Review 17', Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
'The New Glass, Content & Containment', Winter issue, American Style Magazine
1991
Exhibition Review, GLASS Magazine, #45, Fall, NY, USA
1990
Exhibition Review, GLASS Magazine, #40, Summer, NY, USA
1989
'Glass: State of the Art II', Habatat Galleries, MI, USA
Exhibition Review, NEW WORK Magazine, Spring, NY, USA
1988
'New Glass Review 9', Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
Exhibition Review, New York Times, 1/31, Craft Section, NY, USA
1987
Exhibition Review, NEW WORK Magazine, Fall, NY, USA
Gallery Section, American Crafts, April/May, NY, USA
1986
'New Work in NEW WORK', NEW WORK Magazine, Fall, NY, USA
Exhibition Review, Crafts International, Spring, NY, USA
1985
'The Crafts Council Collection', The Crafts Council of Great Britain
Exhibition Review, Dialogue: The Ohio Journal for the Arts, Nov/Dec., USA
Exhibition Review, West Art, Vol. 23, #13, CA, USA
1984
'New Glass Review 5', Corning Museum, Corning, NY, USA
1983
Exhibition Review, Dialogue: The Ohio Journal for the Arts, May/June, USA
1981
'Encyclopedia of Glass', Crown Publishers, London, UK
'Makers', The Crafts Council of Great Britain
1979
Exhibition Review, Morgenavism, Norway, 9/8
'Craftsmen of Quality', The Crafts Council of Great Britain
1976
'Microfiche', Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
1975
'Modern Glass', Pitmans Publishing Co, London, UK
1974
'Decorative Arts & Modern Interiors', Studio Vista, London, UK

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