BIOGRAPHY
Lucartha Kohler was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania but spent most of her youth in the Harrisburg /Hershey area. She attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Moore College of Art in Philadelphia majoring in fine art and fashion design. By chance she relocated to Southern New Jersey in an area known for glassmaking since the 18th century.
Over a 20 year residency in New Jersey she took advantage of her proximity to glass factories and Wheaton Village to train herself in the traditions and applications of many glass making techniques.
A quest for more information and technical skill led her to Penland School for Crafts for a Glass Concentration. Over time she developed her own methods of forming and decorating glass based on ancient processes. The subject matter of her art is based on images from ancient cultures and is unique in its fusion of symbolism and figuration.
In 1985 she moved to Philadelphia from South Jersey and has recently moved again to Durham NC where she plans to live and work. In addition to her studio production and sculpture, Lucartha teaches, demonstrates and conducts workshops at venues including The University of the Arts and Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia PA, The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY, Wheaton Arts, a glass center in Millville NJ and The Glass Furnace, a glass school in Istanbul, Turkey.
Her work has been shown in many one woman and group exhibitions in the US and abroad including the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA, The Design Arts Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, and Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
Lucartha is a recipient of both New Jersey and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Visual Artist Fellowships and 2 Masterworks Fellowships from The Creative Glass Center of America in Millville NJ. A Wales/Philadelphia Artist Residency, a British-American Arts Council travel grant, a Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant and an Independence Foundation Fellowship.
Her work is in a number of museums and included in many public and private collections. She has been written about in a variety of publications including her own books "Glass: An Artists Medium" and “Women Working in Glass”.
RESUME
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SELECTED ONE WOMAN EXHIBITIONS
2013 Cary Art Center, Cary NC 2008 Window on Main, Gallery 50, Bridgeton, NJ
2006 Window on Broad, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA,
2003 Zenith Gallery, Washington DC
2001 Brodsky Gallery, Educational Testing Service, Princeton NJ
2000 Zenith Gallery, Washington DC , Sculpture from the Tarot
Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, The Fools Journey
1999 Window on Broad, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA,
PNI Gallery, Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia PA.
1998 White Flint Arts Program, White Flint Mall, Bethesda MD
1997 Design Arts Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA
1995 Fleisher Art Memorial, Faculty Gallery, Philadelphia PA
1994 JAB Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1992! Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ The Glass Gallery,
Festival of Light VI, Bethesda MD
1990 Esther M. Klein Gallery: University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Giannetta Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
1981 Susanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1980 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 Hillsbouough Gallery of Art, Hillsborough NC, , Lucartha Kohler, Ginny Runge
1998 MorganContemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, " Myth and Form, Lucartha Kohler ! and Margot Gotoff 1995 JAB Gallery, Phila PA, Lucartha Kohler, Cast Glass, Don Friel, Blown glass
1994 Kittrell Riffkind Art Glass, Dallas, TX, Glass, Two Artists, Two Interpretations
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Chapel Hill Town Hall, 3 Person Show
2012 Frank Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, 3 @ Frank, Blueshow, consignment artist ongoing
Curio, Block Gallery, City of Raleigh Arts Commission, Raleigh, NC
Come Out & Play Outdoor Sculpture Show, JimGin Farm, Pittsboro, NC
Winter Show, Green Hill Art Center, Greensboro NC
North Carolina Botanical Garden Sculpture Show, Chapel Hill, NC
2011 North Carolina Botanical Garden Sculpture Show, Chapel Hill, NC
DAC Storefront project, 322 Chapel Hill St, Durham NC
Frank Gallery, Chapel Hill NC, Black and White
Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA Philadelphia Women Working in Glass
2010 North Carolina Botanical Garden Sculpture Show, Chapel Hill, NC
2010 Scrapel Hill II, University Mall, Chapel
2009 Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ, Glass Under Glass
Museum of American Glass, Millville NJ, Past Fellows
2008 Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Teapots
Steep in Thought, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg PA, Art of the State
Icebox at Crane Arts, Philadelphia PA, Global Warming
Works Gallery, Philadelphia. “10th Goblet Invitational”
Zenith Gallery, Washington DC, ‘Trees of Life”
2007 Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ, “Celebrating Connections”
The Gallery of American Craft. Wheaton Arts, Millville ,NJ, “Recent Work from Past Fellows”
Works Gallery, Philadelphia. “9th Goblet Invitational”
2006 Works Gallery, Philadelphia. “8th Goblet Invitational” City Hall, Philadelphia , PA. Twenty years of Art in City Hall
2005 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News VA, Out of the Mold*
JCC Art Gallery, Baltimore MD, Let There Be Light
2004 Kentucky Museum of Arts &Design, Louisville KY. Goblets
City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, Luminosity
2003 Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ, 20/20
Stedman Gallery, Rutgers, Camden, NJ, Out of the Fire
Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester MA, New Traditions
2002 Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro PA Philadelphia Sculptors
2001 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Art Matters*
City Hall, Philadelphia , PA, Images in Glass
Pittsburgh Center for Art, Pittsburgh PA, Sculpture Now
Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA, Invoking the Source*
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Old World, New World, Common Ground
Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh PA, Idols, Icons and Archetypes
Wayne Art Wayne, PA, Philadelphia Sculptors*
2000 Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, Figures: Alone And Together
1999 Budapest Gallery, Center, Budapest, Hungary, Old World, New World, Common Ground
Gallery of American Crafts, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, Artists of the Creative Glass Center of America
Vitrum Gallerie, Philadelphia, PA, Premonitions
Peters Valley Gallery Without Walls, Morristown, NJ, Art In The Open
1998 Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual, 1998
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, Philadelphia Sculptors,*
Aichi Prefecture Museum , Seto, Japan, Cold Fusion*
1997 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 30 Years of Collecting Contemporary Crafts
The Gallery of American Crafts. at Wheaton Village, Millville ,NJ, A Woman's Approach to the Figure
Washington Square, Washington D.C., Transferring Energy
Morgan at Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. For/by/about women
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, CALIDO* traveled to Missippi Museum of Art ,Whatcom
Museum of History and Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum,
Philadelphia College of Textiles, Paley Design Center, Philadelphia PA, 1 Screen, 2 Souls, 4 Hands*
Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, The Varieties of Religious Experience
1996 City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, Art in City Hall, 1 Screen, 2 Souls, 4 Hands
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual, Crafts,*
Lyons/Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX, Northeast Aesthetic
Miller Gallery, NY, NY, Figurative Invitational, Annual
Philabaum Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, Homo Vitreous
Sandscript, 1996,
1995 Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, One of a Kind, One of Many, 1995
Miller Gallery, NY, NY, Figurative Invitational, Annual
Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ Interior Motives
Grohe Gallery, Boston, MA, Bare Essentials
Sable V Gallery, Wimberly.TX A Gathering of Glass
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual, Crafts,*
Flagler Museum, Palm Beach , FL, Please Be Seated, Masters of the Art of Seating*
Ariana Gallery, Royal Oak, MI, Glass a Woman’s Touch!
The Gallery at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, Glass
1994 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Face to Face, Portraits and Self Portraits
Miller Gallery, NY, NY, Figurative Invitational, Annual
Vermont State Craft Center, Manchester, VT, The Ubiquitous Bowl II
Owen Patrick Gallery, Phila PA, Sculptural Glass Goblets
1993 Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ, My Cup Runneth Over
New York Experimental Glass Workshop, NY, NY, Goblet Exhibition
1992 Abington Art Center - Abington, PA, Ancient Sources
Borowsky Gallery, Gershwyn Y, Phila PA. Artists Confronting the inconceivable
1991 Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, The Awakened Goddess, Festival Mythos
Dawson Gallery, Rochester, NY, From the Creative Glass Center
1990 Holsten Galleries, Stockbridge,MA, Stockbridge Invitational
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, Expressions in Glass
1989 Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, NJ Skies: Artists‘ Interpretations of the Cosmos
Grohé Glass Gallery, Boston, MA, C.G.C.A.: A Seven Year Legacy
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Sculpture in the Park
Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, The Masque: The Face of Women
1988 Hildebrandt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Artistry in Glass
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, Taking Shape: Sculptural Glass*
1987 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, Alliance in the Park
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA, Three Rivers Arts Festival,*
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, Stalking the Light*,
Heller Gallery, New York, NY, Glass America,
1986 Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual*
1985 Penns Landing, Philadelphia, PA, Sculpture Outdoors
1984 Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ, In a Sense*
Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ, NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition*
1983 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Fourth Biennial NewJ ersey Artists
1982 Beaver College, Glenside, PA, Sculpture '82
Pavillion Galleries, Mount Holly, NJ, New Jersey Great Ideas
1981 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, Exploration in Glass*
Habitat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI, Ninth Annual National Glass Exhibition
1980 Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, Fiber, Metal, Clay: New Jersey Artists*
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2003 Women Working in Glass, Schiffer Publications, Ltd.
2003 The Glass Furnace, Lucartha Kohler, Glass Art, January/February 2000 Philadelphia City Paper," Glass Act",, Review, Robin Rice, September, 21
1998 Glass: An Artists Medium, Lucartha Kohler, Krause Pub
1997 Pate de Verre and Kiln Casting of Glass, Jim Kervin and Dan Fenton, GlassWear Studios
Philadelphia City Paper, April 18-24, Review, Robin Rice
Glass Magazine, Spring 1997, Number 66, Preview, Warm is Hot, by April Kingsley
1996 Seven Arts, Dec. 1996, Vol.4 Number 12, Visual Arts; Folding Screens at City Hall, Irene Cherkassky
Harmony's Realm of Light, Lucartha Kohler's Glass Sculpture, Glass Art, January/February, Volume 11, Number 2
1994 Profile, Zanne Miller, Art Matters, Vol. 14, Number 5, Dec. 1994-Jan. 1995
Glass Magazine, Number 56, Summer 94, review
1992 Artists Confronting the Inconceivable, American Interfaith Inst., Philadelphia, PA
Glass Magazine, Number 48, Summer 92, review
1991 Corning Glass Review 12, Neues Glas, 2/91
1990 Gallery Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 1990
1981 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
1977 Survey of Contemporary Glass, ’77, Corning Museum Microfiche.
AWARDS
2003 Cultural Specialist, grant, US State Department
GCP,Glass Group, Philadelphia, grant
Spring-Ford High School, Artist in Residency
2001 Independence Foundation, Fellowship in the Arts
1999 Leeway Foundation, Window of Opportunity Award
1995 Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority Design Competition, finalist
1992 Artists Confronting the Inconceivable Bronze Award
1991 Wales/Philadelphia Visual Artists Exchange, Artist Residency
1990 Masterworks Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America
1990 British American Arts Association Travel Grant
1989 Visual Arts Fellowship, Crafts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1988 Exhibition award, Charles Allis Art Museum
1988 Masterworks Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America
1984 In a Sense, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, competition award
1983 Visual Arts Fellowship, NJSCA
1982 New Jersey Great Ideas, 1982. exhibition award
1980 Arts Inclusion Design Competition, NJSCA
EXPERIENCE
2008-09 Professional Institute for Education, Inspirations, summer intensive
2008 PAEP and PA Board of Education joint residency
2007 PAEP Artist in Residence, Residency artist
2007 Exton Elementary School, Exton, PA
2007 St Denis Elementary School, Havertown, PA
2006 Meredith Elementary School, Artist Residency
2005 Owen J Roberts Elementary School, Artist Residency
2004 Sabold Elementary School, Artist Residency
2003 Springford High School, Artist Residency
2005 Curate glass exhibit “Out of the Mold” Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
2000-06 Philadelphia Sculptors, curate annual 5 School Student Show with Paul Hubbard
2004-05 Salem Community College, Glass Center advisory committee
1996-04 Creative Glass Center of America, Board of Trustees
1984-86 Designer, Wheaton Industries, January 1984 - December
1977-83 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Curator, Crafts Gallery, Board of Directors
1972-76 New Jersey Teen Arts Festival, County co-coordinator
1970-76 Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Commissioner and chair
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008-09 Professional Institute for Educators, Inspirations, Summer Intensive
1999-09 University of the Arts, Phila. PA Adjunct faculty
2004 Sculptor’s Guild, Yerevan University, Armenia (Lecture)
2003 Worcester Center for Crafts, New Traditions workshop
2004 Urban Glass, Brooklyn NY
1999-03 Salem County Community College, Glass Center
1997-10 The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass
1994-02 Wheaton Village, Millville NJ
1995-02 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2002 The Glass Furnace Glass School, Istanbul, Turkey
1994-09 Fleisher Art Memorial, Phila. PA, Faculty
1994-98-01 Tyler School of Art, Phila PA
1995 Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
1992-01 Demonstrate glass bead making, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ!
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2005 Civ World Award presented to Harry Belafonte
2001 Art Table Award
1994-99 Horizon House, Philadelphia PA, Awards for Excellence, annual
1992-2011 Scranton Area Foundation, Scranton, PA, Margaretta Belin Chamberlin Memorial Award, annual
1991 Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce/Business Volunteers for the Arts Award, 1991
1989 The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor's Awards for Excellance in the Arts, Humanities and Science
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2005 Civ World Award presented to Harry Belafonte
2001 Art Table Award
1994-99 Horizon House, Philadelphia PA, Awards for Excellence, annual
1992-2011 Scranton Area Foundation, Scranton, PA, Margaretta Belin Chamberlin Memorial Award, annual
1991 Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce/Business Volunteers for the Arts Award, 1991
1989 The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor's Awards for Excellance in the Arts, Humanities and Science
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Rouse and Associates Borowsky/Wagman Collection
New Jersey State Museum Morris Museum
Memorial Hospital, Mount Holly, NJ Corning Museum of Glass
Wolf, Block, Schoor and Solis-Cohen Newark Museum
Museum of American Glass Ricardo Muti
Paul Stankard Collection Fox Chase Cancer Center
Norman and Susanne Cohn Henry and Linda Wasserstein
Clifton NJ Sculpture Park! Widener University School of Law
Sabold Elementary School Meredith Elementary School
Exton Elementary School St Denis Elementary School
Museum of American Craft! Lehigh Valley Hospital
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh,PA
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Penland School of Crafts