Paul Stankard
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Born 1943 in Attleboro, Massachusetts
Education
Salem Community College, Pennsgrove, New Jersey
Rowan University, 1997
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Glassboro, New Jersey
Muskingum College, 2007
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, New Concord, OH
Salem Community College Honorary Associate Degree
Awards and Special Honors
Salem Community College, Honorary Associate Degree in Fine Art, New Jersey, 2008
Muskingum College, Honorary Doctor of Fine Art New Concord, OH, 2007
Salem Community College, Honorary Member of Phi Theta Kappa International
Honorary Society, New Jersey, 2007
National Liberty Museum, Artist as Hero Award, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
Art Alliance For Contemporary Glass, Lifetime of Innovative Achievements in Art, Chicago, 2003
American Craft Council, College of Fellows, New York, 2000
Salem County Community College Glass Center, “Paul Joseph Stankard Gallery,” Dedicated in 1999
Urban Glass, Urban Glass Award - Innovation In A Glassworking Technique, New York, 1998
Rowan University, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, New Jersey, 1997
New Jersey Council of County Colleges, Excellence Award, New Jersey, 1993
New Jersey State Council of the Arts Award for Excellence, New Jersey, 1986, 1989
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenan, WI
Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, AL
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
GlasMuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Hsinchu Cultural Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The JBSpeed Museum, Louisville, KY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Morristown, NJ
Musee des Arts Decoratif, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France
Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
National Museum of American Art - The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Newark Public Museum, Newark, NJ
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Lorretto, PA
Suwa Museum, Toyoda, Japan
Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI
Documentaries/Books
“Paul Joseph Stankard: A Glass Maker’s Pilgrimage Through Nature,”
DVD/Video, Robert Hahn, Shanrac Productions, 2003
“Paul J. Stankard: Homage to Nature”, Ulysses Grant Dietz, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1996
“PAUL STANKARD “INVENTING ILLUSIONS,” Bates-Renaud, Kirsten, Video, 1996, 46mins.
Select Media
Martha Stewart Living, “Glass Art with Paul”, CBS, June 2003
Modern Masters, “Glass Artist: Paul Stankard”, HGTV, November 2003
“Craft in America”, an annual PBS Peabody Award-winning Documentary Series, October 2009
Selected Bibliography
The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, The University of Hawaii, 2005
The Contemporary Glass Art of the World, Wang Jianzhong, Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House,
China, 2005
International Glass Art, Richard Wilfred Yelle, Schiffer Publishing, Inc., Atglen, PA 2003
The 8th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, The University of Hawaii, 2003
Contemporary Glass Exhibition, Habatat Galleries and Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua
University, Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group, 2001 Artists in Glass, Dan Klein, Mitchell
Beazley, Great Britain, 2001
Glass Art From Urban Glass, Richard Wilfred Yelle, Schiffer Publishing, Inc., Atglen, PA 2000
“La Nature Selon Paul Stankard,” La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, Thomas Zoritchak,
March/April 1999
“One on One - Preserving the Woodlands,” American Style, Jeffrey R. Sipe, Summer 1999
“Delicacy & Detail,” New Jersey Outdoors, Carol Baldwin, Winter 1999
American Glass: Masters of the Art, Lloyd E. Herman, Smithsonian Institution, 1998
International New Glass 1998, Attilia Dorigato, Dan Klein, Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Electa, 1998
“Glass - An Artist’s Medium”, Lucartha Kohler, Krause Publications, WI, 1998
Traveling Exhibition Services/University of Washington, DC, 1998
“Crystal Cathedrals,” House & Garden, Georgia Dzurica, May 1998
The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa ‘98, Kanazawwa City, Japan, 1998
Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections From The Glick Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indiana, 1997
Glass Today By American Studio Artists, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, 1997
Glass Today - By American Studio Glass From Cleveland Collections, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Ohio, 1997
Calido! Contemporary Warm Glass, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, 1977
The ‘97 Hsinchu International Glass Art Festival, Hsinchu Cultural Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 1997
“Nature Revealed: A Conversation with Paul Stankard,” Glass Art, Shawn Waggoner, Volume 12,
Number 3, March/April 1997
Glass Art, Peter Layton, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1996
“Into the Heart of Glass,” Art and Antiques, Terry Trucco, December 1996
“Paperweights are Transformed into Fine Art Museum,” Art Matters, Burton Wasserman,
September 1996
Glass Art 3: The Belkin Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia, 1996
“Paul Stankard,” Glass Craftsman, Loretta Radeschhi, No.7 feature Article, April/May 1996
The ‘95 Hsinchu International Festival For Glass Arts, Hsinchu Cultural Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan
The Art Of The Paperweight - Challenging Tradition, Lawrence H. Selman, Paperweight Press,
California, 1993
“Glass: Capturing the Dance of Light,” National Geographic, William S. Ellis, Vol. 184, No. 6,
December 1993
Survey of Glass in the World, Tsuneo Yoshimizu, Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co., Ltd., 1992
Glass From Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art: 1962-1992 and Beyond, Jane Bedula, The Morris
Museum, 1992
The International Exhibition Of Glass Kanazawa ‘92, Kanazawa City, Japan 1992
Cristalomancia: Contemporary Art In Glass, Centro De Arte Vitro, Mexico, 1992 “Nature Reflected in
Glass,” New Jersey Outdoors, Jim Morris, Fall 1992
“Paul Stankard Talks About His Life and Work,” GLASSWORK, Aoki Tommmoko, July 1992
New Glass Review 13, The Corning Museum of Glass Masterpieces of Glass, Robert J. Charleston,
Harry N. Abrams, NY, 1990
Art That Works - Decorative Arts of the Eighties Crafted in America, Lloyd E. Herman, University of
Washington Press, Washington, 1990
Masterpieces of American Glass, Jane Shadel Spillman and Susanne K. Franz, Crown Publishers,
Inc., 1990
Video and Television: “Paul Stankard: Inventing Illusions,” aired nationally on Public Television - 27
min. feature, 1997-98
47 min. video, K.Bates-Reynaud, New York, NJ
“Labore Est Orare: by Paul Stankard,” Art Glass Association of Southern California, 1994
“American Craftsman; Paul J. Stankard,” NHK Enterprises, Public Television, Tokyo, Japan, 1993
Selected Public Exhibitions
“Floating World: Exhibition of Paul J. Stankard,” Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art,
Midland, MI 2006
“Floating World: Exhibition of Paul J. Stankard,” Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ, 2006
“Northern Light: Exhibition of International Glass Art Celebrating 10 Years of North Lands Creative
Glass,” North Lands Creative Glass, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006
“Floating World: Exhibition of Paul J. Stankard,” Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 2006
“Paul Stankard - Glass Flowers and Walt Whitman,” James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Artist
Lecture, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum , Washington DC, 2006
“Floating World: Exhibition of Paul J. Stankard,” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, WI, 2006
“The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition,” University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, 2005
“Paul J. Stankard: Paperweight,” Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
“Where there’s Smoke...Ceramics and Glass,” Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State
University, Boone, NC, 2005
“Floating World: Exhibition of Paul J. Stankard,” Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, 2005
“Blowing Hot, Cutting Cold: 35th Anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement,” Lakeview Museum of
Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 2005
“Sculpting in Glass,” Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2005
“Magnificent Extravagance: Artists and Opulence,” Charles A Wustrum Museum of Fine Arts,
Racine, Wi, 2005
“Kanaz Forest of Creation Glass Art Exhibition,” Kanaz Forest of Creation, Japan, 2005
“Floating World: Exhibition of Paul J. Stankard,” Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village,
Millville, NJ, 2004
“Floating World: Exhibition of Paul J. Stankard,” Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, 2004
“Poetic Vision of Nature: The Solo Exhibition of Paul Stankard”, Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taipei,
Taiwan, 2003
“The 8th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition,” University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, 2002 (catalog)
“Paul Stankard: Homage to Nature A thirty Year Retrospective”, FullerMuseum of Art, Brockton,
MA, 2002
“2001 Contemporary Glass Exhibition,” Beijing to Shanghai, China, 2001
“Paul J. Stankard,” Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY, 2000
“Defining Craft I,” American Craft Museum, New York City, NY, 2000
“Glass!, Glorious Glass!”, Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, 1999
“Fresh Flowers,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, 1999
“Visual Poetry,” Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, 1998
“American Glass: Masters of the Art,” Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, 1998
“Windows to the Tropics,” The Museum of Selby Gardens, Sarasota, FL, 1998
“Venezia Aperto Vetro,” Venice, Italy, 1998 (catalog)
“International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa ’98 Design Center Ishikawa, Kanazawa, Japan, 1998
(catalog)
“Calido! Contemporary Warm Glass ,” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, 1997 (catalog)
“The ‘97 and ‘96 Hsinchu International Glass Art Festival,” Hsinchu Cultural Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
1997, 1996 (catalog)
“Masters of Contemporary Glass Selections from the Glick Collection,” Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indianapolis, Indiana, 1997 (catalog)
“Glass Today by American Studio Artists,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 1997
(catalog)
“Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections,” The Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, Ohio, 1997 (catalog)
“Contemporary Flameworked Glass,” Museum of American Glass - Wheaton Village, Millville,
New Jersey, 1997 (catalog)
“International Contemporary Glass Exhibition,” Hsinchu Cultural Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 1996
(catalog)
Professional Associations
Present Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, New Jersey
Founding Board Member, 1983 - Present
President 1989 - 1992
Present Fellow, Corning Museum of Glass Corning, New York
1999-Present
Faculty, Flameworking, Salem County Community College, Salem, New Jersey
1999 Faculty, Flameworking, Kanazu Forest of Creation Foundation, Ezra Glass Studio,
Fukui, Japan
1998-Present
Faculty, Glass Art Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York
1995-96 Faculty, Glass Art
1998 Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey
1985-Present
Faculty, Glass Art, Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina
1997 Curator, “Contemporary Flameworked Glass,” The Museum of American Glass at Wheaton
Village, Millville, New Jersey
1997 Faculty, Flameworking, International Flameworking Master Class, North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland
1996-Present
Faculty, Flameworking, The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York