Fall 2023 Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist: Anne Petters
Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist Anne Petters, a German-born visual artist known for creating technically innovative and creatively complex works in glass, will give a lecture and demonstration.
Petters received a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Institute for Ceramics and Glass Art, Hoehr-Grenzhausen, Germany and a MFA in Sculpture/ Glass from Alfred University, New York. Born in Dresden in 1978, she grew up in the German Democratic Republic and views the political change in her country, which she experienced as a displacement of reality, as a basic influence on her lifestyle and artistic work. Her interest in controlling and displaying moments of fleeting, vulnerable existence leads her to a poetic, metaphoric use of glass and other materials.
She has been awarded numerous Artist Residencies, including a fellowship at Wheaton Arts New Jersey, a one-year residential stay at the Edinburgh College of Art, the Emerging Artists in Residence at the Pilchuck Glass School and a Visiting Scholar Residency at the Southern Illinois University. In 2014, she received the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust Scholarship for excellence in British Craft and she is included in the Homo Faber Guide. She has taught as Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art and currently teaches at the City and Guilds of London Art School and at the University for the Creative Arts, UK.