Jessica will join us for 2 days to give a series of beginning to advanced flameworking demos. Visiting intro, major, and graduate level courses. All demos are open to the public.  

Jessica Tsai is a Taiwanese-American artist and fabricator based in Philadelphia. She earned her BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. After years working as a mixed media art fabricator, Jessica was introduced to glass, and in 2019 she attended Salem Community College to complete the Scientific Glass Technology program. Jessica currently works as the flameworker for Blob Blob Studio and is a teacher’s assistant at Salem Community College for the glass art flameworking courses.

 

Through observation and study, Jessica aims to pay respect to the intricacies of nature, both beautiful and discomforting. Inspired by the challenge of recreating lifeforms in glass, Jessica loves the process, problem-solving, and detail required to achieve realism in a difficult material. Her work attempts to capture a quiet, often unnoticed moment in time. Nostalgia, anxiety, impermanence, and fragility are some current themes of her work.

 

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