Glass Faculty

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  • Victoria Ahmadizadeh

    Victoria Ahmadizadeh

    Adjunct Professor

    Victoria Ahmadizadeh writes poetry in which the speaker longs to transcend the limitations of corporeality and urban life. These writings are then made tactile as images and objects. Glass serves as a central element in her work—its sharp…

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  • Megan Biddle

    Megan Biddle

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Megan Biddle is an interdisciplinary artist whose work orbits between sculpture, installation and drawing. She produces experiment- and process-driven work with an emphasis on materials and their distinct characteristics. As an observer of nature…

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  • Kayla Cantu

    Kayla Cantu

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Kayla Cantu is an artist who parallels qualities of glass and everyday materials to the human body. Through questioning society’s understanding of normality and abnormality, her practice explores curiosities of discomfort surrounding unruly…

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    Amber Cowan

    Adjunct Faculty

      Amber Cowan is a sculptor using the material of glass as her primary medium. She is currently working with a process which involves flameworking, blowing and hot-sculpting recycled, up-cycled and second-life glass from thrift stores, flea…

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  • Jessica Jane Julius smiling at the camera.

    Jessica Jane Julius

    Associate Professor and Program Head

    Jessica Jane Julius is an artist, educator, collaborator and performer who creates glass installations, objects and imagery that examine how fear is infiltrating the ways in which we navigate the world and presents a look at the anxieties and…

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  • Paige L Morris

    Paige Morris

    Adjunct Faculty

      Paige L Morris is an interdisciplinary artist and educator in Philadelphia, PA. Building upon her foundation in glass, Morris utilizes material poetics, sound, and video performances to examine language, the complexities of love, and the…

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  • Amy B. Ritter

    Amy Ritter

    Adjunct Faculty

    Amy Ritter is an artist and educator whose interdisciplinary work explores class dynamics and the American Dream. Her work comprises of sculptural installation, photography, video, and public sculpture. She grew up in the rural town of Orefield,…

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  • Judith Schaechter

    Judith Schaechter

    Adjunct Faculty

      Judith Schaechter lives and works in Philadelphia. Her work is collected internationally and is represented in the collections of the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert in London and the Hermitage,…

  • Kristen Neville Taylor

    Kristen Neville Taylor

    Adjunct Faculty

      Kristen Neville Taylor creates immersive installation-based environments designed to lead the viewer through a phenomenological and pedagogical experience that probes the events that shape human perception of nature. Taylor is a recent…

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  • Davis Hanscom Thal

    Davis Thal

    Adjunct Faculty

    Davis Hanscom Thal is a Philadelphia-based glass artist and educator whose practice explores the intersections of materiality, identity, and nature through a queer lens. A graduate of Temple University’s Film and Media Arts program, Thal…

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