Claire Kelly Studio Tour and Talk
On September 26, 2020 we visited the Studio of glass artist Claire Kelly.
Claire graduated with her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alfred University in 1996. In 2004 she was granted the EnergyXchange fellowship in Burnsville, North Carolina. In 2008 Claire moved to Providence, RI to work with acclaimed glass artist Toots Zynsky. She has been an instructor at Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Centro Fundacion del Vidrio in Spain. She has been a resident artist at the Pittsburgh Glass Center and received the Rosenberg Residency at Salem State University in MA. Recently she was an Artist in Residence at the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass where she created a new body of work using specialty glass from Effetre, a glass company based in Murano, Italy. She continued this investigation at a residency at Salem Art Works in Salem, NY in September of 2018. Claire was selected to be a demonstrating artist at the Glass Art Society Conference in Venice, Italy in 2018 and was a visiting resident artist at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA in the fall of 2018. Claire’s work is on exhibition at major institutions and galleries in the United States and internationally.