2024 Visiting Artist Workshop with Jiyong Lee
5 day workshop from June 19-23, 2024
Wednesday-Sunday 9am-5pm (with a daily 1 hour lunch break)
Prerequisite: No experience required
Registration Deadline 5/7/2024
Course Description:
This workshop will explore various creative practices with cold glass techniques including, saw cutting, carving, grinding, lamination assemblage with HXTAL NYL1, polishing, and various surface finishing methods. During the workshop the group will discuss a variety of problem-solving techniques and critical thinking with using glass as an artistic medium.
Artist Biography: Jiyong Lee is a studio artist and educator who lives and works in Carbondale, Illinois as a professor of art and head of the glass program at Southern Illinois University. As an instructor, he also has taught at the Pilchuck Glass School, the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Penland School of Crafts, the Domaine de Boisbuchet in France, Canberra Glassworks in Australia, Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin, Ireland, and various other art institutions and universities nationally and internationally. He has won a number of honors, including 2021 Finalist of Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, Bavarian State Prize from International Trade Fair, Munich Germany. His work was featured in American Craft Magazine, Neues Glas (Germany), New Glass Review of Corning Museum of Glass, and American Art Collector.