AACG - Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass

Grants Awarded

The following is a list of all of the grants awarded by the AACG since 1991. To see a graph of annual grant amounts awarded over a ten-year span, click here. 

AACG Grants Awarded from 1991 to the Present

2013 Spring Grants ($30,400)

• American Glass Guild: Exhibition American Glass Now: 2013, May 3 – 29, 2013
• Bellevue Arts Museum:  Program Short Stories: Narrative Works by Nate Steigenga, Anna Torma, and Cappy Thompson, October 10, 2013 – January 19, 2014
• Bergstrom-Mahler Museum: Exhibition Glass Artists of the New North, September 15, 2013 – February 16, 2014
• Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery: Exhibition 6,000 Footprints, September 15, 2013 – January 5, 2014
• Columbus Museum: Exhibition Feel the Heat: Contemporary Glass Sculpture, November 24, 2013 – March 23, 2014
• David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University: DVD documentation of Anders Ruhwald’s residency, May 1, 2013 – January 31, 2014
• Morean Arts Center: Design & printing of glassblowing educational brochure, June 1 – December 1, 2013
• Museum of Glass: Exhibition Caution Fragile!, November 9, 2013 – September, 2014
• Reading Public Museum:  Gallery guide and “Art in the Afternoon” programs, July 1 – September 15, 2013
• SiNaCa Studios School of Glass: Artist fee for one visiting artist in series, April – September 2013

2012 Fall Grants ($19,000)

• Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the U of VA: For lecture by Preston Singletary; October 23-24, 2012         
• Art Museum of South Texas-Corpus Christi: For exhibition "Contemporary Studio Glass from the Collection of the Mobile Museum of Art; January 25 - May 5, 2013                    
• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: For exhibition "Cam Langley - A Retrospective;" January 12 - March 17, 2013       
• Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH: For exhibition "Josiah McElheny: Towards a Light Club;" January 26 - April 7, 2013                       
• Glass Art Society: For Day of Glass and Gallery Hop at 2013 GAS conference in Boston; June 12 - 15, 2013              
• Des Moines Art Center: Educational Programming for Exhibition: "Transparencies: Contemporary Art and A History of Glass; February 21 - May 26, 2013                                     
• Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center: For Museum of American Glass annual exhibit celebrating 30th anniversary of Creative Glass Center of America; April 1 - December 31, 2013

2012 Spring Grants ($65,000)

All spring 2012 AACG grants awarded were for 2012 projects in conjunction with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of contemporary glass in the U.S. 

• Berkshire Museum: For exhibition Tom Patti: Echoes in Space; June 16 – September 16
• Boise Art Museum: For exhibition William Morris and Alexis Rockman: The Art of Nature; December 15 – May 31, 2013
• Cedarhurst Center for the Arts: For exhibition The Walter Collection of Glass Art; October 27– January 13, 2013
• Columbia Museum of Art: For exhibition Born From Fire: American Studio Glass from the Collection; May 29 – July 12
• Craft and Folk Art Museum: For exhibition Glass’ Big Bang: Celebrating 50 Years of Studio Glass; September 29 – January 8, 2013
• Crocker Art Museum: For a series of programs led by Preston Singletary in conjunction with 50th anniversary exhibition; September 22 –23
• Durango Arts Center: For its Blown Glass Invitational exhibit featuring Chihuly and artists he has influenced; July 3 –30
• Fallbrook Art Center: For exhibition 15th Annual Galaxy of Glass and corresponding public programs; September 9 – October 21
• Foothills Art Center: For exhibition Chihuly Venetians: The George R. Stroemple Collection; April 7 – June 30
• Gallery North: For exhibition Art Glass to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Studio Art Glass movement; June 22 – July 27
• High Museum of Art: For Corning Museum of Glass Hot Roadshow and ancillary museum exhibit; September 12 -16
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: For exhibition 39th International Glass Invitational; August 11 – November 4
• La Quinta Arts Foundation: For featured Artist (Randy Strong) at La Quinta Arts Festival
• March 8 - 11
• Mesa Arts Center: To support one of four glass exhibitions from mid-September through early January
• September 14 – January 7, 2013
• National Liberty Museum: For exhibition Seeking Freedom; June 25 – October 1
• Oakland Museum of California: For exhibition Fifty Years of California Studio Glass; September 15 – February 24, 2013
• Orlando Museum of Art: For exhibition Contemporary Glass Sculpture: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Studio Glass; December 22 – March 31, 2013
• Pratt Fine Arts Center: For exhibition Another Look highlighting the work of 6 talented yet not adequately recognized Seattle artists; September 6 – 30
• Roseville Arts – Blue Line Gallery: For exhibition of glass artists from the region; October 11 – November 10
• The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts: For exhibition Green Art; May 17 – July 8
• The Crucible: For a two-day symposium and exhibition on 50 Years of Studio Art Glass 1962-2012: California’s Contribution; November 10 – 11
• The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art and Technology: For exhibition Littleton’s Grand Students: Legacies of the Father of American Studio Glass; July 1 – September 30
• Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum: For exhibition North Carolina Glass 2012: A Celebration of 50 Years of Studio Glass in America; October 28 – February 1, 2013
• Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center: For Celebration: 50 and Forward summer seminar; June 29 – July 1

2011 Fall Grants ($77,150)

All 2011 grants were for exhibitions and projects related to the 2012 Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Studio Glass in America.

• Allentown Art Museum (PA): Exhibition of the Lerner Contemporary Glass Collection, October 7, 2012-January 13, 2013
• Art Institute of Chicago: Exhibition of contemporary glass to commemorate the 50th anniversary, six months in early 2012, dates pending
• Asheville Art Museum (NC): "Fire on the Mountain: Studio Glass in Western North Carolina," January 14-May 6, 2012
• Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA): Tom Patti: Echoes in Space, June 16 – September 16, 2012
• Boca Raton Museum of Art (FL): "Voices of Contemporary Glass: The 50th Anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement," January 18-June 3, 2012
• Dallas Arboretum (TX): 2012 Chihuly exhibit, May 5-November 5, 2012
• Fort Collins Museum of Art: "Colorado Collects Glass: A Celebration of the American Studio Glass Movement," December 10, 2011-March 18, 2012
• Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA): "Dan Daily: Working Methods," February 18-June 3, 2012
• Glass Art Society: Day of Glass at G.A.S. Toledo conference, June 13-16, 2012
• Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (TX): "Transference. This installation investigates the history of glass as musical instrument," February 4-May 13, 2012
• Illinois State University, University Galleries: "Studio Glass at 50: A Tradition in Flux," July 14-October 14, 2012
• Madison Chautauqua Festival of Art (IN): HOT GLASS: Madison Chautauqua Festival of Art® Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of American Studio Glass (Indiana), September 5-October 5, 2012
• Minnetristra (IN): "GLASS A Juried Art Show 2012, inaugural show in partnership with Ball State University (Indiana)," May 12-August 12, 2012
• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL): "Stephen Rolfe Powell: A Retrospective," October 6, 2012-January 5, 2013
• Muskegon Museum of Art (MI): "50 X 50: A Glass Invitational Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement," August 23-October 28, 2012
• Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale of Nova Southeastern University: Studio Glass Symposium with exhibition of works of Isabel De Obaldía, March, 2012
• Museum of Glass, Tacoma: "Scapes, a testament to generations of glass history, international influences, and the future of the movement," April 7, 2012-March, 2013
• Museum of Seminole County History (FL): "Glass Fascination: Form, Function and Art," January 17-March 17, 2012
• Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND): "Jon Offutt: Dakota Horizons, a special glass installation," April 6-August 19, 2012
• Smithsonian American Art Museum: Special panel discussion on the history of the Studio Glass Movement, May 13, 2012
• Sonoran Glass Art Academy (Tucson, AZ): 50-year Anniversary Celebration, as part of the Tucson Glass Festival, featuring lectures, demonstrations and exhibits by Laura Donefer, Henry Halem, and Tom Philabaum, March 22-April 27, 2012
• Taos Institute for Glass Arts (NM): "Taos Celebrates Contemporary Glass: A Fifty Year Anniversary of Art Innovation, September 14-October 7, 2012
• UrbanGlass Art Quarterly Magazine: Special issue of GLASS Quarterly: The UrbanGlass Arts Quarterly, January 1-June 1, 2012
• Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VA): "Harvey K. Littleton: Innovation and Process," November 2-December 21, 2012
• Tucson Museum of Art: Lectures by Fritz Dreisbach and Henry Halem commemorating the 50th anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement, February 4 and March 3, 2012

2011 Spring Grants  ($55,500)

All 2011 grants were for exhibitions and projects related to the 2012 Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Studio Glass in America.

• Bergstrom-Mahler Museum (WI), “The Legacy of Littleton: Harvey Littleton and his Wisconsin Glass Program Students”
• Bowling Green State University Foundation (OH), to fund workshops and demonstrations with Japanese glassmakers, as well as an exhibition.
• Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College, Howard Ben Tre Solo Exhibition
• Flint Institute of Arts (MI), to fund educational programming related to an exhibition of Contemporary American Paperweights.
• Jack & Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts (IN), “Light & Flow: 50th Anniversary of Contemporary Studio Glass”
• Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, “Young Guns: The Legacy of Littleton and Labino”
• Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Fifty Years: Contemporary American Glass from Illinois Collections”
• Morean Arts Center (FL), to fund Mavericks in Motion, youth education camps dedicated to creation of glass art.
• Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley (WI), “Transcendence – Celebrating 50 Years of the Studio Glass Movement.”
• Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, to fund major invitational of past Creative Glass Center of America fellows
• Museum of Arts and Design (NY), “Alchemists and Magicians”
• Norton Museum of Art (FL), “Beth Lipman: A Still-Life Installation”
• Palm Springs Art Museum (CA), “Contemporary Glass” and “Michael Petry: The Touch of the Oracle”
• Racine Art Museum (WI), “Cutting Edge: Exploring Glass Jewelry – RAM Honors 50 Years of Studio Glass Art”
• Rockford Art Museum (IL), “Into the Light: Illinois Glass”
• Telfair Museums (GA), “Blown, Assembled and Cast: A Celebration of Contemporary Glass”
• The University of Arizona Museum of Art & Archive of Visual Arts (Tucson), Matt Eskuche’s “trash glass” artwork, Agristocracy

2010 ($44,500)

• Bellevue Arts Museum (WA), "Eyes for Glass: the Price Collection."  $5000
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MA), Catalog for "Dale Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass." $7,500
• Flint Museum of Art (MI), "Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect."  $5000
• Glass Roots (Newark, NJ), Flo Perkins workshop.  $1000
• Mobile Museum of Fine Art (AL), "Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush: A Life in Glass." $4,000
• Morean Art Center (St. Petersburg, FL),  "Ricky Bernstein: Kitchen Dreams."  $3000
• Museum & Arts Center (Sequim, WA), "Transcendence – The Magic of Glass, an Exhibition of Contemporary Glass."  $1000
• National Museum of the American Indian (New York, NY),  "Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire and Shadows." $4,500
• Pratt Fine Arts Center (Seattle, WA), "The Brychtova Forum – Women Artists Working in Glass: Celebrating Innovation and Vision Across Generations."  $4500
• Sonoran Glass Art Academy (Tucson, AZ),  To support a retrospective exhibition of Ana Thiel at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. $3,000
• Tucson Museum of Art (AZ),  "Borderlanda," Einar and Jamex de la Torre. $3,000
• Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center (Millville, NJ), Pino Signoretto residency.  $4000

2009 ($59,250) 

• Columbus Museum of Art (OH),  "Chihuly Illuminated."  $4500
• Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum (Seattle, WA),  Maria Grazia Rosin, "Gelatine Lux."  $5000
• Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA),  "Josh Simpson: A Journey in Glass."  $3000
• Glass Art Society (Seattle, WA),  public programs during its 40th Annual Conference in Louisville, KY.  $3000
• Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ), Preston Singletary, "Echoes, Fire, and Shadows."  $5000
• Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington), "A Survey of Contemporary Flameworking, 2010."  $2500
• Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (Louisville), "Mark Peiser: A Life with Glass" and "Glass Jewelry: An International Passion for Design."  $5000
• Knoxville Museum of Art (TN), Anne Wilson installation.  $1500
• Lowe Art Museum (Coral Gables, FL), "The Art of Ricky Bernstein."  $4000
• Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), "Klaus Moje."  $5500
• Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA), Beth Lipman and Ingalena Klenell residency.  $4000
• Palm Springs Museum of Art (CA), "Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass."  $5000
• Pratt Fine Arts Center (Seattle, WA), Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen and Jiri Harcuba  residencies. $2,000
• Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota, FL), "Contemporaneous Glass: A Collaboration in 3 Parts by Ron Desmett, Kathleen Mulcahy, and Martin Preskop."  $2750
• The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art, and Technology (Newark), residencies of 3 artists.  $1500
• Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center (Millville, NJ), "Rising Stars: Contemporary Glass Artists for the 21st Century."  $5000

2008 ($62,250) 

• Bellevue Arts Museum (WA), "Etsuko Ichikawa: Traces of the Molten State."  $1,750
• Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA), "Contemporary Glass Among the Classics." $5,000
• Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA), "Il Vetro Veneziano: Contemporary Venetian Glass."  $1,000
• Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (TX), two concurrent exhibitions, one from local private collections and the other of three emerging artists. $2,500
• Hunterdon Museum of Art (Clinton, NJ), Hank Murta  Adams exhibition.  $2,000
• Knoxville Museum of Art (TN), "Josh Simpson: A Legendary Journey in Glass." $1,500
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "Pioneers of Contemporary Glass: Highlights from the Barbara and Dennis DuBois Collection." $5,000
• Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA), "Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire and Shadows." $5,000
• New Britain Museum of American Art (CT), "Contemporary Glass: Chihuly and Beyond."  $4,500
• New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe), "Flux: Reflections on Contemporary Glass."  $4,500
• Orlando Museum of Art (FL), "Therman Statom: Stories of the New World." $3,500
• Pittsburgh Glass Center (PA), Susan Taylor Glasgow exhibition.  $2,500
• Portland Art Museum (OR), Klaus Moje exhibition.  $5,000
• Pratt Fine Arts Center (Seattle, WA), Bandu Dunham, Mitchell Gaudet, and Jeffrey Sarmiento exhibition.  $1,000
• Racine Art Museum (WI), exhibition and workshops by Therman Statom. $2,000
• Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), "Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass."  $5,000
• Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts (VA), "All in the Family" (works by 15 artists from 7 families). $3,000
• Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah, GA), "Myth, Object, and the Animal: William Morris Glass Installations." $3,500.
• Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center (Millville, NJ), "Treasures from the Collection: American Museum of Glass."  $4,000

2007 ($51,500) 

• Carroll County Arts Council (Westminster, MD), "SiO2: The Mystery of Glass."  $500
• Cincinnati Art Museum (OH), "Celebrating Contemporary Craft."  $5000
• Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA), "The Machinery of Heaven." (Steven Easton)  $4000
• Galveston Arts Center (TX), "2nd Texas Juried Glass Exhibition." $2000
• Katonah Museum of Art (NY), "Shattering Glass." $6000
• Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (Louisville), "Master Maker: Stephen Rolfe Powell: A Retrospective."  $2500
• Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences (Peoria, IL), "Native Species." (William Morris)  $2000
• Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (NY), "Poetics of Space." (Michael Taylor)  $4000
• Mint Museum of Craft + Design, (Charlotte, NC), "White Light: Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman."  $4000
• Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA), "Mining Glass.'' $4000
• Nova Southeastern University (Ft. Lauderdale, FL), glassblowing demonstrations. $2000
• Pilchuck Glass School (Stanwood, WA), digitalization of historic reel-to-reel tapes. $4000
• Pratt Fine Arts Center (Seattle, WA), visiting artists residencies. $1000
• Springfield Museum of Fine Arts (MA), "Josh Simpson: A Visionary Journey in Glass 1972-2007."  $2000
• The Newark Museum (NJ), "Art of Glass from Galle to Chihuly." $7500
• The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art & Technology (Newark, OH), artist residency.  $1000

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2006 ($52,750) 

• Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art (Sturgeon Bay, WI), "Richard Jolley: Sculptor of Glass from 1985 – Present." $2000
• Friends of the Conservatory (Columbus, OH), public lecture series in conjunction with Chihuly "Mille Fiori" exhibition. $3000
• Fullerton Art Museum, CA State University, San Bernardino, group exhibition. $2500
• Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ), "Richard Jolley: Sculptor in Glass from 1985 – Present." $2000
• Huntsville Museum of Art (AL), "Josh Simpson: A Visionary Journey in Glass." $2000
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), "Glass: Material Matters." $8000
• Montgomery Museum of Fine Art (AL), Sonja Blomdahl exhibition. $2250
• Museum of Arts & Design (NY), "GlassWear" (contemporary glass jewelry). $2000
• Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA), "Transparently Built: Glass Installations by Mildred Howard, Jean Shin, Jo Yarrington, and Harumi Yukutake." $2500
• Pratt Fine Arts Center (Seattle, WA), residencies of Roger Parramore and Cappy Thompson. $1000
• Rockford Art Museum (IL), "He and She: Vallien/Hydman-Vallien." $2000
• San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design (CA), "California College of Art: A Legacy in Studio Glass." $2000
• Smithsonian Archives of American Art (New York, NY), Nanette Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America. $5000
• Society for Contemporary Craft (Pittsburgh, PA), Raphael Prize exhibition. $3000
• The Mint Museums (Charlotte, NC), "Observations--works by Ann Wolff." $3000
• The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art, and Technology (Newark), residency of glass artist. $1000
• The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA), artists residencies. $2000
• Vero Beach Museum of Art (FL), "Studio Glass: Then and Now." $4000
• Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center (Millville, NJ), "Celebrating Connections: Contemporary Glass by Mid-Atlantic Artists." $3500

2005 ($47,750) 

• Worcester Center for Crafts (MA), "Shining Light on New England:  the New England Glass Perspective." $5000
• The Works:  Ohio Center for History, Art and Technology (Newark, OH), residency of Bill Gudenrath. $1750
• Ringling School of Art and Design (FL), glass art from Sarasota collections. $3500
• Museum of Glass:  International Center for Contemporary Art (Tacoma, WA), "Karen LaMonte:  Absence Adorned." $5500
• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL), Cappy Thompson exhibition. $3500
• International Society of Glass Beadmakers (Cleveland, OH), juried exhibition of contemporary glass beads. $3500
• California Center for the Arts (Escondido), "Through the Looking Glass." $2,500
• Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (TX), "Reflected Light." $2,500
• Krannert Art Museum (Champaign, IL), "Eye, Form, Symbol: The Jon and Judith Liebman Collection of Contemporary Sculpture in Glass." $4,000
• Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Evanston, IL), "Sculpting in Glass: Recent Works by Contemporary Artists." $4,000
• Peninsula Fine Arts Center (Newport News, VA), "Out of the Mold: A Survey of Contemporary Cast Glass." $2,500
• Pittsburgh Glass Center (PA), "Well Hung: Chandeliers Revealed." $2,250
• Pratt Fine Arts Center (Seattle, WA), Residencies of Fritz Dreisbach and Kirstie Rea. $1,500
• Robert Hull Fleming Museum (Burlington, VT), "Tony Jojola and Preston Singletary: New Traditions in Glass." $2,750
• Theatre of Yugen (San Francisco, CA), theatre set for "The Old Man and the Sea." $1,000
• Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH), "Part Object, Part Sculpture." $2,000

2004 ($57,500) 

• Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, "Dale Chihuly: A Retrospective." $4,500
• College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI), "American Glass: The Murano Influence." $3,500
• Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center (Millville, NJ), "Particle Theories." $8,000
• The Mint Museums (Charlotte, NC), "Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection." $3,000
• North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh), "Fusion: Contemporary Glass from North Carolina Collections." $4,250
• Galveston Arts Center (TX), "Texas Juried Glass." $2,000
• International Museum of Art & Science (McAllen, TX), "American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement." $5,000
• Sandwich Glass Museum (MA), "Josh Simpson Retrospective." $5,000
• Museum of Arts & Design (NY), "Paul Stankard: A Floating World." $8,000
• Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, Nassau Bay (TX), "Glass: An Artist's Medium. " $3,750
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (TX), "Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection. "  $2,500
• Burlington City Arts (VT), "Material Vision." $5,000
• Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art (WA), "Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection." $3,000

2003 ($43,900) 

• Asheville Art Museum (NC), "Looking Within, Mark Peiser, the Art of Glass." $5,000
• Eugene Glass School (OR), flameworking documentary. $1,500
• Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (FL), educational program for K-12 teachers and students in conjunction with the exhibition, "Chihuly Across Florida: Masterworks in Glass." $5,000
• Carnegie Art Museum (CA), "Amend/Stinsmuehlen-Amend: Recent Works in Glass and Paint." $3,500
• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL), online catalog of the museum's contemporary glass collection. $1,000
• Oakland Museum of California, "Marvin Lipofsky: A Glass Odyssey." $3,800
• Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences (IL), Exhibition of works from the George Stroemple collection of Chihuly blown glass and drawings. $1,500
• National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (IA), "Glass Behind the Iron Curtain: Czech Design, 1948-1978." $2,400
• Glassworks Foundation (KY), "Celebration of Glass: a civic festival of contemporary glass art." $2,600
• Glassworks Foundation (KY), "Chihuly Baskets." $1,000
• Louisville Visual Art Association (KY), "A New Millenium: A New Light: An International Survey of Architectural Glass Art." $2,800
• The Speed Art Museum (KY), "The Light Within: Glass Sculpture from Louisville Collections," an exhibition of contemporary glass. $2,700
• Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design (formerly American Craft Museum)(NY), "Libensky and His Students." $3,800
• Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art (WA), "Glass of the Avant-Garde." $2,300
• Pilchuck Glass School (WA), Glass art exhibition and catalogue, presented during the 2003 Glass Art Society meeting. $1,500
• William S. Fairfield Public Gallery Foundation, Ltd. (WI), "American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement. $3,500

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2002 ($35,295) 

• Columbia Museum of Art (SC), "Defining Craft: Collection for the new millennium." Exhibition support, $3,500
• Evergreen State College (WA), digital video project of work by Cappy Thompson. $1,200
• Glass Art Society, Support of student exhibition and publication about it in the GAS Journal. $1,800
• Gulf Coast Museum of Art (FL), exhibit of large scale work by Florida artists Susan Gott, Paul Larned, and Duncan McClellan. $1,930
• Hockaday Museum of Art (MT), "Etched, Fused and Blown: Five Montana Contemporary Glass Artists." $1,310
• Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, "The Glass Vessel: An International Invitational Exhibit." $2,225
• Kentucky Folk Art Center, traveling exhibition of works in neon. $2,130
• Knoxville Museum of Art (TN), "Richard Jolley: Sculptor of Glass." Exhibition support. $3,200
• Museum of Craft and Folk Art, (San Francisco, CA), "Fusing Traditions: Transformations in Glass by Native American Artists." Catalog support. $4,000
• Norton Gallery of Art (West Palm Beach, FL), "Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass." Catalog support. $4,000
• Museum of Glass/International Center for Contemporary Art (Tacoma, WA), "The Inner Light: Sculpture by Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova" (opening exhibition). Exhibition support. $3,000
• Tweed Museum of Art (Duluth, MN), "Wiiken Collection of Glass." Catalog support. $4,000
• Urban Glass (NY), 25th Anniversary exhibition, Urban Glass Award Winners at the Corning Gallery at Steuben. $3,000

2001 ($17,400) 

• Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Howard Ben Tré, "Interior/Exterior." $3,500
• Rahr West Art Museum (WI), "Dancing with Light." $1,500
• Yeshiva University Museum, Sydney Cash, "Introspective Retrospective." $700
• Milwaukee Art Museum, Panel Discussion in conjunction with "Chihuly over Venice." $2,400
• Queens Museum of Art (NY), "Heart of Glass," eight international contemporary artists. $2,700
• Rochester Institute of Technology, "Visionary Women." $3,100
• Columbus Museum of Art (OH), "The Glass Sculpture of Christopher Ries." $3,500

2000 ($18,500) 

• Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, exhibition catalog. $3,500
• Centre College Glass Program, HDTV program on Lino Tagliapietra. $3,500
• American Craft Museum, "American Glass Artists in Venice." $3,500
• William S. Fairfield Public Gallery Foundation, travelling exhibition. $3,500
• Lowe Art Museum, exhibition catalog. $4,500

1999 ($20,800) 

• Glass Art Society, Student Workshop at Expo II. $2,500
• Liberty Museum and Education Center, Program, Training, Book. $4,000
• Tampa Museum of Art, Catalog, Clearly Inspired. $4,000
• Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL, American Glass: Masters of the Art. $4,400
• Boise Art Museum, Judy Hill Exhibition. $3,000
• Illinois State University, Visiting Artist Program. $2,900

1998 ($9,300) 

• Fort Lauderdale Museum, Catalog, Contemporary Glass,.$4,000
• Renwick Gallery, Catalog, Glass! Glorious Glass. $4,000
• West Virginia Public Television, Video, Blenko Glass. $1,300

1997 ($12,000) 

• American Craft Museum, Catalog, 4 Acts in Glass. $2,000
• Bellevue Art Museum, Catalog, Heir Apparent. $2,000
• Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Exhibit, Wisconsin Glass. $500
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Catalog, Glass Today. $4,000
• Illinois State Museum, Catalog, Fire and Ice. $1,500
• Lakeview Museum, Exhibition, Blowing Hot/Cutting Cold. $2,000

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1996 ($17,750) 

• Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Catalog, Christopher Ries. $1,000
• Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Catalogue, Klaus Moje. $1,500
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalog, Glass Today. $5,000
• Glass Art Society, Honoree, Annual Dinner. $1,500
• Huntington Museum of Art, Catalog, Belkin Collection. $1,750
• Milwaukee Art Museum, Catalog, Recent Glass. $4,000
• Mint Museum of Art, Catalog, S. Rogers Exhibition. $500
• Tucson Museum, Exhibition, Calido! $2,000
• University of Illinois, I-Space Exhibition. $500

1995 ($8,000) 

• Krannert Art Museum (University of Illinois), Exhibition, William Carlson. $1,000
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalog, Modern Glass. $5,000
• Seattle Art Museum, Catalog, Holding Past. $1,000
• Toledo Museum of Art, Thurmon Statom Residency. $1,000

1994 ($2,200) 

• Ohio State University Museum, Student Exhibition. $500
• Santa Barbara Museum, Chihuly Exhibition. $1,000
• Urban Glass. $500
• National Glass Team ("the B Team"). $200

1993 ($28,500) 

• Corning Museum, Sculpture Gift (Tom Patti) with CCCA. $27,500
• Milwaukee Art Museum, Catalog, Tiffany/Ben Tre. $1,000

1992 ($3,340) 

• Pilchuck Glass School, Sosin Memorial Fund (Scholarships). $1,000
• Toledo Museum of Art, Saxe Collection Exhibition. $1,000
• Urban Glass, Article in Glass Magazine. $840
• Whatcom Museum, Exhibition, Pilchuck Glass. $500

1991 ($4,596) 

• Creative Glass Center of America, Expenses. $623
• Glass Art Society, Postage. $350
• Illinois State University, Scholarships. $1,000
• Philadelphia College of Arts, Scholarships. $1,000
• University of Illinois, Scholarships. $1,000
• Urban Glass, Glass Magazine to museums. $1,125

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