Midwest Voices in Contemporary Glass
JUNE 14, 2024-OCTOBER 5, 2024
The Cafesjian Art Trust Museum invited artists to participate in the Museum’s first juried exhibition of glass art from the Midwest region. Midwest Voices in Contemporary Glass includes ten works selected from an open call to illustrate the diversity of approaches and ideas percolating in the Midwest glass scene. The jurors included Andy Schlauch, Executive Director of the CAT Museum; Alejandra Peña-Gutiérrez, Director of the Weisman Museum; and Anna Lehner, Executive Director of Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts. This exhibition accompanies the CAT Museum’s concurrent exhibition From Origins to Horizons: The American Studio Glass Movement, which survey the movement’s beginnings in the 1960s through today.
Artists featured in the exhibition include Erik Burt, Davin Ebanks, Emily McBride, Donna Rice, Nadine Saylor, Chuchen Song, Abegael Uffelman, Ali Van, Lila Westreich, and Emma Wood.
Erik Burt (American, born 1996). Neon Briefcase, 2023. Neon, argon, mercury, glass tubing, wire, plastic, metal, and an electrical transformer.
Nadine Saylor (American, born 1971). Vanilla Pincushion, 2022. Blown glass, gold, stainless-steel, ink.
Davin Ebanks (American, born Cayman Islands, 1975). Left to right: Passage: Blanco (“Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, / Great, hollow, bell-like flowers / Rumbling in the wind…”) [Excerpt: Storm Ending, Jean Toomer], 2021. Cast glass; Passage: Azul (“It is air / ceaseless wind, water and sand.”)
[Excerpt: The Sea, Pablo Neruda], 2021. Fused glass; Passage: Negro (“can we find light in the never-ending shade? The loss we carry, / a sea we must wade.”) [Excerpt: The Hill We Climb, Amanda Gorman], 2021. Cast glass.
Emily McBride (American, born 1986). heap, 2022. Glass, cable ties.
Lila Westreich (American, born 1992) Bark Beetle Gallery Box, 2024. Flameworked glass.
Donna Rice (American, born 1959). Hibiscus, 1987. Cast glass, beeswax.
Left to right: Emma Wood, Emily McBride, and Abegael Uffelman.
Ali Van (American, born 1986). The Mandarins, 2020–2021. Blown glass; organic matter.
Abegael Uffelman (American, born 1997). Everyday, 2019. Fused glass; ink on paper.
Emma Wood (Swedish-American, born 1995). Sju Blommar / Seven Flowers, 2023. Blown glass, fused, and fossilized organic matter.
Chuchen Song (American, born 1995). Death of the Frog, 2023. Enameled and kiln-formed glass.
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