The Artist
Paul J Stankard
(1943- )
Born: 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
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
2001 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", Fuller
Museum 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
