Glass Faculty

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Glass Faculty

  • Jessica Julius
    Associate Professor of Instruction and Program Head
    Glass

    Jessica Jane Julius

    • Email: jessica.julius@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-280-6521
    • Office: Tyler 120C
    • Website: www.jessicajjulius.com

    • 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 complexities of our current “culture of fear.”  

      She is the co-founder of the artists’ collective and performance group, The Burnt Asphalt Family, who produces collaborative, participatory and edible works. Together they have performed at prestigious venues including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Chrysler Museum and Urban Glass. Her...

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    Associate Professor, Program Head of Sculpture and Director of Graduate Studies
    Glass, Sculpture

    Sharyn O’Mara

    • Email: sharyn.omara@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-777-9128
    • Office: Tyler 130J
    • Website: www.sharynomara.com

    • Sharyn O’Mara is an artist and educator whose interdisciplinary works explore the marks of language and the language of marks. Her practice is comprised of drawing, sculpture, glass, printmaking and installation.
       
      O’Mara’s current work involves reflections on empathy and longing while living in a media-possessed culture that so often feels devoid of intimacy and trust. Deeply connected to her dogs, in one body of mixed-media works, she works with the residue of their existence—nose prints, shed hair, cremains—taking otherwise overlooked materials and phenomena and...

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  • Adjunct Professor
    Glass

    Victoria Ahmadizadeh

    • Email: victoria.ahmadizadeh@temple.edu
    • Website: www.vahmadizadeh.com

    • 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 softness, slick transparency and rich colors are used as a means for translating poetic metaphor. 

      MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University 
      BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Glass

    Megan Biddle

    • Email: megan.biddle@temple.edu
    • Website: www.meganbiddle.com

    • 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, she responds to the elusive and subtle, reflecting on variations of time, cycles of growth and erosion.

      MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University
      BFA, Rhode Island School of Design

  • Kayla Cantu
    Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Glass

    Kayla Cantu

    • 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 bodies and perceptions of identity. She received her BFA from West Texas A&M University, her MFA in Glass from Rochester Institute of Technology, has exhibited her work internationally, and has attended residencies and fellowships at Pittsburgh Glass Center and WheatonArts. 

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  • Adjunct Professor
    Glass

    Amber Cowan

    • Email: tuc16990@temple.edu
    • Website: www.ambercowan.com

    • 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 markets and post-production factory runs. She was the recipient of the 2014 Rakow Commission from The Corning Museum of Glass and her work is in the collections of the RISD Museum and the Shanghai Museum of Glass.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
      BFA, Salisbury University

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Foundations, Sculpture, Glass

    Brynn Hurlstone

    • Email: Brynn.hurlstone@temple.edu
    • Phone: 419-266-3096
    • Website: http://www.brynnhurlstone.com

    • Brynn Hurlstone is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and fabricator who creates consumptive, sensorial objects and environments that invite engagement. She considers trauma and its relationship to precarity, unspeakability, isolation, connection, and release by allowing material reactivity and subjective experience to speak reciprocally through her work.

      Hurlstone is the owner of Second Generation Glassworks, the co-founder of the Glass Impact nonprofit coalition, and the former Director of Operations of Public Glass in San Francisco. She has exhibited nationally in group and solo exhibitions, including the prestigious Wind Challenge, Art of the State at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the recent national exhibition Through a Glass Darkly at Delaware Contemporary Museum, which was hailed as the “new guard of glassmakers” in Glass Magazine.


      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture 2023
      BFA, Bowling Green State University 2008
       

  • Paige L Morris
    Adjunct Associate Professor
    Glass

    Paige L Morris

    • Email: Paige.Lizbeth.Morris@temple.edu
    • Office: Suite Hot Glass Studio

    • 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 human search for truth and meaning. Her practice actively investigates agency and desire as a method for unlearning her patriarchal conditioning. 

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  • Judith Schaechter
    Adjunct Professor
    Glass

    Judith Schaechter

    • 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, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 and her work was in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. 1n 2013, Judith was inducted to the College of Fellows of the American Craft Council. She received a lifetime achievement award from the Glass Art Society in 2022.

      In 2020-21, Judith’s work was the...

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  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Glass

    Kristen Neville Taylor

    • Email: kristen@temple.edu
    • Office: 120D
    • Website: www.kristennevilletaylor.com

    • 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 alumna of Vox Populi gallery, a recipient of the Laurie Wagman Prize in Glass and co-founder of the Philadelphia art gallery and collective, Little Berlin.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University