Artists List        Ruth King     Images | Bio Currently: Artistic Director Pilchuck Glass School Exhibitions 2004 Mardi Gras Invitational, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA 2003 20/20 Vision, Museum of American Glass, Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ Working Drawings, Bubba Mavis Gallery, Seattle, WA Eclectic Goblet II, Carson-Masuoka Gallery, Denver, CO Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA Eclectic Goblet, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO 2002 The American Glass Art Educators Exhibition, Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taipaei, Taiwan Private Figures:The Logic and Passion of Collecting Figurative Art, Davis Gallery, University of Akron Akron, OH Elements:Earth, Air, Wind and Fire, Quad City Botanical Center, Rock Island, IL Fourth Annual Goblet Show, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA 2001 New Works: Faculty and Visiting Artist Exhibition, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA Third Annual Goblet Show, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Glass Art in America, Rochester, NY Bausch and Lomb Glass Invitational, Bausch and Lomb Gallery, Rochester, NY 2000 I-N-F-I-N-I-T-E P-O-S-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y, State Teachers Retirement Services Bldg, Columbus, OH The Essence of Sisterhood, Bricker Hall Group Exhibition, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH New Works: Faculty and Visiting Artist Exhibition, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH The 7th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition University of Hawaii Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI 1999 "Holding Light:Contemporary Glass Sculpture", Installation in the Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Falling Bodies, Solo Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA Goblet Invitational, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Many People, Small Works, Acme Art Gallery, Columbus, OH Ohio Perspectives: Reflections in Glass, Curated Group Exhibition of Ohio Artists at the Riffe Gallery in Columbus and the Akron Museum of Art 1998 People Go To Work, permanent installation of 23 glass hats, neon and steel in the MBA Lounge of Gerlach Hall, The Max M. Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH R.I.S.D. Works, Elliot Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA and SOFA, NYC Ohio Perspectives: Reflections in Glass, Verne Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH 1997 Trial by Fire: Glass as a Sculptural Medium, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA Raucous Color, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC Glass Ohio: State of the Art, The Dairy Barn Southeastern Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH Instructor Exhibit, Penland School, Penland, NC dd>The Ripple Effect in Glass, The Gallery of American Craft, Millville, NJ Centennial Glass, The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston, MA Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Ruth King: Recent Work, Solo Exhibition, Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL SOFA - Chicago, Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL An Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Art, Group Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY Glass: The Cutting Edge, Group Exhibition, Clayton Gallery, Lincoln, MA Best of 1996, Featured Artist, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Columbus, OH SOFA - Miami, Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL Crucible Glass Project Visiting Artists Exhibition, St. Paul, MN Southwest Invitational IX, Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York, NY Sculpture in Glass, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1995 Ruth King: Glass and Drawings, Solo Exhibition, Riley Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH East Coast Glass, Invitational Exhibition, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC American Glass Now, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO Group Invitational, Nazarene College, Mt Vernon, OH In Women We Trust, Vitrum Gallerie, Asheville, NC Glass as Art: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Glass Art Society, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC International Pilchuck Invitational Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle WA 1994 International Exhibition of Sculptural Glass Goblets, Owen Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Women in Glass, Vetro Marmo, Gahanna, OH Thought Bubbles, Solo Installation of vinyl, helium and neon in the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, Alfred, NY Focal Points, Heller Gallery, New York, NY 3rd Masterworks of Contemporary Glass, Benefit Auction, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY Spring Follies, Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ Truth in Glass, Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ Musculatures: Recent Glass Sculpture, Solo Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle 1993 Appropriation and Assimilation, four person exhibition curated by John Perrault, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY Rhode Island Connections: Fifteen Contemporary Glass Masters, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI Contemporary Glass Masters, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO International Pilchuck Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA 1992 What's New, Helander Gallery, Palm Springs, FL New Art Forms, CGCA, Chicago, IL Modern Glass, Cone-Solow Gallery, Mendocino, CA 1991 First Outdoor Neon Exhibition, Glass Art Society Conference, Corning, NY From the Creative Glass Center, Dawson Gallery, Rochester, NY 1990 Liquid Sand: Exquisite Glass Goblets, Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, AZ Design Excellence, A traveling exhibit of award winners from ID Magazine Annual Review 1989 P ilchuck Invitational Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA Glass From Pilchuck Invitational, The Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR Ruth King: MFA Glass, Sol-Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, RISD Museum, Providence, RI Rhode Island Objects, AS220 Alternative Space, Providence, RI Permanent Public Work "I-N-F-I-N-I-T-E P-O-S-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y" steel, blown glass and neon installation, State Teahers Retirement Services Bldg, Columbus, OH 2000 "People Go To Work", permanent installation of 23 glass hats, neon and steel in the MBA Lounge of Gerlach Hall, Max M. Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1998 Publications Glass Art: Urban Glass 2003, Richard Yelle, Editor, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.,New York, NY 2003 Page Hazelgrove Exhibition Catalog Forward, Museum of Western Virginia, VA 2000 GLASS, Richard Yelle, Editor, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., New York, NY 1999 Splitting Pictures, Individual Works, Berry Van Boekel and Mary Jo Bole, Knust, Netherlands, 1997 Hot Tips, Presented and Written by Ruth King for the Glass Art Society 1996 Conference and Journal St. Louis Post Dispatch, "The Transparent Art" by Jeff Daniel , 1996 New Glass Review 17, Corning Museum of Glass, 1996 Columbus Dispatch Arts Magazine, by Michael Grossberg, 1996 Interview with Ruth King, by Shawn Waggoner, Glass Arts Magazine November 1996 In Context, Invitational Self-Designed 4 Page Visual Layout for Glass Magazine, Autumn Issue, 1995 American Craft Portfolio, October/November 1994 Columbus Dispatch Review, Jacqueline Hall, August 1994 Glass Magazine, Review of Musculatures Solo Exhibition by Ron Glowen, 1994 New Glass Review 15, Corning Museum of Glass, 1994 Art and Crafts, Seoul, Korea, June 1993 New Glass Review 13, Valiant Glass, Corning Museum of Glass, 1992 New Glass Review 11, Corning Museum of Glass, 1990 ID Magazine Annual Review, July 1989 Glass Art Magazine, Jan/Feb 1989 RSID New Works Catalogue, 1988 Education MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1989 Graduate Fellow, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1982 BFA Magna cum laude, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA 1981 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL 1976-78 Awards University Seed Grant, for "The Introduction of Computer Generated 3D Prototypes for Collaboration In Molten Glass Fabrication", Ohio State University 1997-1998 Level 2 Research Grant, "Phase II: The Generation and Introduction of 3D Computer Generated Prototypes for Collaboration in Molten Glass Fabrication", Ohio State University 1997 Level 1 Research Grant, "Phase I: The Generation of Two-Dimensional Images for Developing Animated Prototypes Towards Collaboration in Molten Glass Fabrication", Ohio State University 1997 Level 2 Research Grant, "Physiology of Molten Glass Using the Vessel as Carrier of Ideas" Ohio State University Level 1 Research Grant, "Glass-A Material of Memory", Ohio State University 1996 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship 1995 CGCA Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ 1990 Doug and Dale Anderson Hot Glass Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA 1990 Honorable Mention, ID Magazine Annual Review, July/August 1989 Award of Excellence II, 1/3 tuition, Rhode Island School of Design 1989 Award of Excellence I, 1/3 tuition, Rhode Island School of Design 1989 Lectures and Residencies Lecture, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL 2003 Visiting Artist, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 2003 Lecture and Demonstration, Tittot Museum of Glass, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002 Lecture, Royal College of Art, London, 2001 Lecture, Staffordshire University, Stoke On Trent, England, 2001 Lecture, Dartington Crystal Factory, Torrington, Devon, England, 2001 Lecture and Demonstration, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2001 Lecture and Demonstration, 5th session Pilchuck, Stanwood, WA 2001 Lecture and Demonstration, 2nd session Pilchuck, Stanwood, WA 2001 Lecture, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 2000 Lecture and Demonstration, Cleveland Insitute of Art, Cleveland, OH 2000 Page Hazelgrove Residency in Glass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 1999 Lecture and Demonstration, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, IL 1998 Lecture, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI, 1998 Professional Practices Lecture, Hot Tips for Slide Presentations, G.A.S. Conference, Boston, MA 1996 Demonstrator, Grand Opening of The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY 1996 Visiting Artist, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 1996 vVisiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1996 Lecture, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN, 1996 Visiting Artist, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1996 Visiting Artist, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 1996 Visiting Artist, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 1995 Lecture, "Ruth King, Philosophy of Art and Education", Ausglass Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 1995 Demonstration, Ausglass Conference "Heart of Glass", Adelaide, S. Australia, 1995 Lecture/Demonstration, Alfred University, New York State School of Ceramics, Alfred, NY, 1994 Visiting Artist, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 1994 Visiting Artist, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, 1994 Visiting Artist, Kanazawa Institute, Kanazawa, Japan, 1993 Visiting Artist, Toyama City School, Toyama, Japan, 1993 Artist-in-Residence, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1992 Artist-in-Residence, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1990 Resume 6/14/04 Collections Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Stewart Thomson, Alna, ME State Teachers Retirement Services, Columbus, OH Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business, Columbus, OH Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum, Niijima, Japan Sara Jane Kasperzak, Toledo, OH Betsy Rosenfield, Chicago, IL Jack Lenor Larsen, New York, NY Wheaton Village Historical Museum, Millville, NJ Mike Belkin, Cleveland, OH Doug and Dale Anderson, New York, NY Raymon Beluche, Bellevue, WA Doris U. Kuyken-Schneider, Netherlands Benson Pilloff, Cleveland, OH Carol Englander, New York, NY Teaching Associate Professor of Sculpture and Dimensional Studies, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 2002 - 2003 Associate Professor and Glass Area Co-Coordinator, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1993 - 2002 Senior Lecturer, Glass and Core 3D Studies, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1991-1993 Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1990-1991 Selected Workshops Instructor, Summer Session, Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada, 2000 Instructor with Richard Marquis "What To Make and How To Make It" Haystack School, ME 2000 Instructor with Paul Marioni post-conference workshop in figurative imagery and sculptural form, Glass Art Society Conference, Brooklyn, NY 2000 Instructor, "Exponents of Breath" with Katherine Gray, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA 1999 Instructor, "Language and Light" Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 1997 Instructor, "Sculptural Hot Glass" Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, 1996 Instructor, "It's All In the Telling" Penland School, Penland, NC, 1996 Instructor, "Positronic Glass" Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, 1994 Instructor, "Anything Hot" Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, 1993 Instructor, "Bubbles to Ideas" Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, 1992 Workshops Workshop, Miami Hot, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 2003 Workshop, CGS Conference, Dartington Crystal Factory, Torrington, Devon, England 2001 Ruth King and Katherine Gray Demonstration, The Jam Factory, Adelaide, South Australia, 1999 Ruth King and Katherine Gray Workshop, South Australia University, Adelaide, South Australia, 1999 Workshop on Sculptural Hot Glass, A'ha Lima Hawaii Crafts Association and University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1998 Workshop, 3 day hot glass workshop, University of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL 1997 Workshop, Crucible Glass, St. Paul, MN, 1996 Instructor, One Week Hot Glass Workshop, Corning, NY, 1996 Workshop, Ausglass Pre-conference Workshop, The Jam Factory, Adelaide, S. Australia, 1995 Workshop, Canberra Institute of Art, Canberra, S. Australia, 1995 Workshop, The Meat Market, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1995 GAS Pre-Conference Workshop, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 1994 Goblet Workshop, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 1993 6th Annual Niijima Festival Hot Glass Workshop, Niijima Art Center, Niijima, Japan, 1993 Professional Service Artistic Summer Program Assistant, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA 2002 Juror, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Invididual Artist Grants in Crafts, 2000 Artistic Program Advisory Committee, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA 2000-current Board of Directors, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, 1996-present Board of Directors, The Glass Art Society, 1992-1998 Board of Directors, Glass Axis Public Access Studio, Columbus, OH, 1996-1997 Chair, Education Committee, The Glass Art Society Board of Directors, 1995-1998 Co-Site Coordinator, The Glass Art Society Conference, Oakland, CA 1994 Facilitator/Great Lakes Regional Symposium on Crafts, Detroit Institute of Art, 1994 External Examiner, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1992   Back to top © 2004 Pacini Lubel Gallery