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KATHLEEN MULCAHY
About the Artist
Kathleen began working with glass in 1969. After graduating
from Alfred
University she taught at Bowling Green State University for one
year. In
1976 she was invited to join the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University
and to take over the beginnings of a glass art program. While
there she
built one of the largest glass studios in a university setting,
developing a new and innovative curriculum for art students.
In June 1989, Kathleen stopped teaching after 14 years to
pursue her
work independently in her own studio in Oakdale, Pennsylvania.
Kathleen works with Ron Desmett, primarily a painter and glassworker,
to create her work. During this time they have built a glass
studio
and continue to add to it, exhibit widely and have worked on
several
large scale commissions collaboratively that include glass with
other materials.
In 1979 Mulcahy was the recipient of a National Endowment
for the Arts
Fellowship. In 1992, she was selected as Pittsburgh Artist of
the Year
and exhibited new works at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
In 1993
she received a third Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship
for new
works in glass. In 1994 she was artist in residence at Studio
Access to
Glass in Corning, New York through a grant from the Mid Atlantic
Arts
Foundation. In 1996 she was the recipient of the prestigious
Creative
Achievement Award through the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. In 1997,
she
was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des
Arts in Paris,
France. In July 1999, Kathleen will exhibited again at Butters
Gallery
in Portland, Oregon and in February 2000, also exhibit again
at Hodgell
Gallery in Sarasota, Florida. Quivering from the Persuasion
Series will
travel for two years (Sept. 1999- Aug. 2001) in the exhibition
Hot & Cool : Contemporary Glass Works.
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