“Unfortunate Consequences of Being Offered a Drink,” 2024, blown glass, 8 in. x 4 in. x 7 in. Photo credit: Mason Kovaks.
Windgate-Lamar Fellowship
2025
Within my work, I blur the lines between prop, performance, and artifact. I use Venetian glass-blowing techniques to create craft objects that rebel against the patriarchy. Glass is used as a metaphor to describe women as fragile, delicate, and beautiful, yet glass can be sharp and lethal. Venetian glass is predominantly male and has consistently excluded women from participating in this art form because of its “difficulty” and “masculine” nature. I am challenging this by creating feminine objects with these techniques, including myself in this contemporary era of glassmaking. I make these objects feminine in form, bright in color, and oversized, and I apply found material to go against the norms of craft. Community is important to me as I craft objects with a partner and collaborate with a photographer to make the final artworks. This is significant to me because community is what inspires me, more specifically, empowering the broader community of women. I create humorous, scandalous photos of myself accompanied by the outrageous props I crafted in glass. The photographic stills perform femininity, reclaim gender, express identity, and critique cultural norms. This is demonstrated with campy performances of cultural expectations of women. Subversion is vital to this body of work as it asserts feminine power, reversing male dominance and objectification.
Selected works
“Forms of Feminine Patterns; Stereotyped,” 2025, digital print, craft object made with blown glass flame-worked borosilicate, flock, sewing, 16 in. x 11 in. x 16 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Forms of Feminine Patterns; Stereotyped,” 2024, blown glass, flame-worked borosilicate, flock, sewing, 16 in. x 11 in. x 16 in. Photo credit: Mason Kovaks.
“Unfortunate Consequences of Being Offered a Drink,” 2024, blown glass, 8 in. x 4 in. x 7 in. Photo credit: Mason Kovaks.
“Chained by Male Dominance,” 2025, digital print, craft objects made with blown glass, flame-worked borosilicate, gold foil, 2 in. x 1 in. x 39 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Unfortunate Consequences of Being Offered a Drink,” 2025, digital print, craft objects made with blown glass, 8 in. x 4 in. x 7 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“‘Dealing’ with sexism in the workplace as a Woman,” 2025, digital print, craft object made with blown glass, found materials, 12 in. x 3 in. x 11 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Awarding Female Dominance,” 2024, digital print, craft object made with blown glass, wood, metal, 12 in. x 12 in. x 38 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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