Lucartha Kohler Biographical Information





Lucartha Kohler Biographical Information

	Click here for a printer friendly, Adobe PDF version of this page, it will open in a sepate window. Selected One and Two Woman Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions Publications and Reviews Awards Experience Teaching Experience Selected Commissions Selected Collections Education

		Selected One and Two Woman Exhibitions Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2003 Brodsky Gallery, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, NJ, 2001 Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C., Sculpture from the Tarot, 2000 Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, The Fools Journey, 2000 Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Window on Broad, The University of the Arts, Phila., PA, 1999 PNI Gallery, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, 1999 Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Myth and Form, 1998 White Flint Arts Program, White Flint, North Bethesda, MD, 1998 Design Arts Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 1997 Fleisher Art Memorial, Faculty Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1995 JAB Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Lucartha Kohler, Cast Glass, Don Friel, Blown Glass, 1995 JAB Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1994 Kittrell Riffkind Art Glass, Dallas, TX, Glass, Two Artists, Two Interpretations, 1994 Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, 1992 The Glass Gallery - Festival of Light VI, Bethesda, MD, 1992 Esther M. Klein Gallery: University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA, 1990 Giannetta Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1987 Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, 1982 Susanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1981 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, 1980 Back to top of the page

		Selected Group Exhibitions Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ, 2003 Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Out of Fire, 2003 Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA, New Traditions, 2003 Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA, Phila. Sculptors, 2002 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Art Matters, 2001 City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, Images in Glass, 2001 Pittsburgh Center for Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Sculpture Now, 2001 Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA, Invoking the Source, 2001 Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Old World, New World, Common Ground, 2001 Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Idols, Icons and Archetypes, 2001 Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, Philadelphia Sculptors, 2001 Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, Budapest, Hungary, Old World, New World, Common Ground, 1999 Gallery of American Crafts, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, Artists of the Creative Glass Ctr, 1999 Vitrum Gallerie, Philadelphia, PA, Premonitions, 1999 Peters Valley Gallery Without Walls, Morristown, NJ, Art In The Open, 1999 Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual, 1998 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, Philadelphia Sculptors, 1998 Aichi Prefecture Museum, Seto, Japan, Cold Fusion, 1998 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 20 Years of Collecting Contemp. Crafts, 1997 The Gallery of American Crafts at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, 1997 Washington Square, Washington, D.C., Transferring Energy, 1997 Morgan at Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, for/by/about women, 1997 Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ, CALIDO, 1997 (traveled to Mississippi Museum of Art, 1997, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, 1998, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, 1999) Philadelphia College of Textiles, Paley Design Center, Phila., PA, 1 Screen, 2 Souls, 4 Hands, 1997 Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1997 City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, Art in City Hall, 1 Screen, 2 Souls, 4 Hands, 1996 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ New Jersey Arts Annual, Crafts, 1996 Lyon, Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX, Northeast Aesthetic, 1996 Miller Gallery, NY, NY, Figurative Invitational, Annual, 1994, 1995, 1996 Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, One of a Kind, One of Many, 1995 Philabaum Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, Interior Motives, 1995, Homo Vitreus, 1996 Grohe Gallery, Boston, MA, Bare Essentials, 1995 Sable V Gallery, Wimberly, TX, A Gathering of Glass, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual, Crafts, 1995 Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL, Please Be Seated, Masters of the Art of Seating, 1995 Ariana Gallery, Royal Oak, MI, Glass a Woman's Touch, 1995, Sandscript, 1996 The Gallery at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, Glass Analogies, 1994 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Face to Face, Portraits & Self Portraits, 1994 Vermont State Craft Center, Manchester, VT, The Ubiquitous Bowl II, 1994 Owen Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Sculptural Glass Goblets, 1994 Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ, My Cup Runneth Over, 1993 New York Experimental Glass Workshop, NY, NY, Goblet Exhibition, 1993 Abington Art Center, Abington, PA, Ancient Sources, 1992 Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Artists Confronting the Inconceivable, 1992 Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, The Awakened Goddess, Festival Mythos, 1991 Dawson Gallery, Rochester, NY, From the Creative Glass Center, 1991 Holsten Galleries, Stockbridge, MA, Stockbridge Invitational, 1990-2002 State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, Expressions in Glass, 1990 Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, NJ Skies: Artists' Interpretations of the Cosmos, 1989 Grohe Glass Gallery, Boston, MA, C.G.C.A.: A Seven Year Legacy, 1989 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Sculpture in the Park, 1989 Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, The Masque: The Face of Women, 1989 Hildebrandt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Artistry in Glass, 1988 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, Taking Shape: Sculptural Glass, 1988 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, Alliance in the Park, 1987 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Three Rivers Arts Festival, 1987 Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, Stalking the Light, 1987 Heller Gallery, New York, NY, Glass America, 1987, 1987 Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual, 1986 Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA, Sculpture Outdoors, 1985 Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ, In a Sense, 1984 Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ, NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition, 1984 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Fourth Biennial New Jersey Artists, 1983 Beaver College, Glenside, PA, Sculpture '82, 1982 Pavillion Galleries, Mount Holly, NJ, New Jersey Great Ideas, 1982 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, Exploration in Glass, 1981 Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI, Ninth Annual National Glass Exhibition, 1981 Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, Fiber, Metal, Clay: New Jersey Artists, 1980 Back to top of page

		Publications and Reviews Women Working in Glass, Schiffer Publications, Ltd., 2003 The Glass Furnace, Lucartha Kohler, Glass Art, Jan/Feb, 2003 Philadelphia City Paper, Glass Act, Review, Robin Rice, Sept. 21, 2000 Glass: An Artists Medium, Lucartha Kohler, Krause Publications, 1998 Pate de Verre and Kiln Casting of Glass, Jim Kervin and Dan Fenton, GlassWear Studios, 1997 Philadelphia City Paper, April 18-24, 1997, Review, Robin Rice Glass Magazine, Spring 1997, Number 66, Preview, Warm is Hot, by April Kingsley Seven Arts, Dec. 1996, Vol. 4, No. 12, Visual Arts, Folding Screens at City Hall, I. Cherkassky Harmony's Realm of Light, Lucartha Kohler's Glass Sculpture, Glass Art, Jan/Feb 1996 Profile, Zanne Miller, Art Matters, Vol. 14, No. 5, Dec. 1994-Jan. 1995 Glass Magazine, No. 56, Summer 94, review Corning Glass Review 12, Neues Glas, 2/91 Gallery Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 1990 Profile, Burton Wasserman, Art Voices, March/April, 1981 Photo Silk Screen On Glass, Glass Studio, Vol. 19, 1981 A Ceramic Shell For Casting Glass, Glass Art Society Journal, 1978 Survey of Contemporary Glass, 1977, Corning Museum Microfiche Back to top of page

		Awards Vermont Studio Center, Visual Artist Residency, 2004 Sabold Elementary School, Artist in Residence, 2004 Cultural Specialist, grant, U.S. State Department, 2003 Glass Group, Philadelphia, grant, 2003 Spring-Ford High School, Artist in Residence, 2003 Independence Foundation, Fellowship in the Arts, 2001 Leeway Foundation, Window of Opportunity Award, 1999 Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority Design Competition, finalist, honorarium, 1995 Artists Confronting the Inconceivable Bronze Award, 1992 Wales/Philadelphia Visual Artists Exchange, Artist Residency, 1991 British American Arts Association Travel Grant, 1991 Visual Arts Fellowship, Crafts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1989 Exhibition award, Friends of Charles Allis Art Museum, 1989 Masterworks Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, 1988, 1990 New Jersey Great Ideas, 1982, exhibition award In A Sense, 1984, competition award Visual Arts Fellowship, NJSCA, 1983 Honorarium, Arts Inclusion Design Competition, NJSCA, 1980 Back to top of page

		Experience Salem Community College, Glass Center Advisory Committee Creative Glass Center of America, Board of Trustees, 1996-2004 Designer, Wheaton Industries, January 1984 - December 1986 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Curator, Crafts Gallery, Board of Directors, 1977 - 1983 Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Commissioner and Chair, 1970 - 1976 Back to top of page

		Teaching Experience Salem County Community College, Glass Center, 1999-2003 The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, 1997-2003 Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, 1994-1998 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1995-2002 Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, 1994 Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, Faculty, 1994-2003 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1994, 1998, 2001 Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX, 1995 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1986, 1992, Adjunct Faculty 1998-2004 Demonstrate glass beadmaking, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ 1992-2001 The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey, 2002, 2004 Sculptor's Guild, Yerevan University, Armenia (Lecture) Worcester Center for Crafts, New Traditions workshop, 2003 Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, 2004 Back to top of page

		Selected Commissions Horizon House, Philadelphia, PA, Awards for Excellence, annual, 1994-1999 Scranton Area Foundation, Scranton, PA, Margaretta Belin Chamberlin Memorial Award, annual 1992-2003 Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce/Business Volunteers for the Arts Award, 1991 The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, Humanities Art Table award, 2001 Back to top of page

		Selected Collections Rouse and Associates New Jersey State Museum Memorial Hospital, Mount Holly, NJ Wolf, Block, Schoor and Solis-Cohen Wheaton Glass Museum Paul Stankard Collection Norman and Suzanne Cohn Clifton Sculpture Park Borowsky/Wagman Collection Morris Museum Corning Museum of Glass Newark Museum Ricardo Muti Fox Chase Cancer Center Henry and Linda Wasserstein Widener University School of Law Back to top of page

		Education Carnegie Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA Penland School of Crafts Back to top of page