The Tyler Glass program welcomes glass sculptor, artist and educator Nisha Bansil as its 2024-2025 Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist and Artist in Residence.

Bansil works in New York City and the Catskill Region of New York state, where she fabricates commissioned glass works as well as her personal projects. Her practice explores how remnants of phenomenological events found in nature relate to patterns that become ubiquitous, sacred and divine.

Bansil builds devices to render invisible, natural forces, like sound waves and motion, into visual forms in glass. She has been a resident artist at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, Bullseye Projects and The Chrysler Museum of Art.

She was most recently awarded a Maxwell Hanrahan fellowship and her work has been exhibited nationally. She teaches her techniques to students around the world with various institutions, including The Penland School of Craft, Corning Museum of Glass, Pittsburgh Glass, Creative Glass & The Bullseye Glass Co. and Urban Glass. Bansil works at The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a conservation mount maker and preparator.