Event Information
Foci MN Center for Glass Arts
2213 Snelling AveMinneapolis, MN 55407
About
Join us for an evening with acclaimed glass artist Sayaka Suzuki at Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Art for an artist talk and glass pâte de verre demonstration!
Sayaka explores the traditional art nouveau style of pâte de verre, a glass casting and mold making process using glass powders and frit. The results of pâte de verre are unique; from being completely opaque like marble, to translucent to transparent with opaque components. During the demo, Sayaka will build patterns with colored glass powders and provide examples.
Artist Talk 6pm
Pate de Verre Demonstration
Seating is limited, please RSVP here https://www.mnglassart.org/upcomingevents/suzuki
Artist Biography
Originally from Yokohama, Japan, Sayaka Suzuki is a Richmond-based artist having received her MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University. Suzuki creates works that explore her deep roots in Japanese culture in conjunction to her new adopted identity as an American immigrant. Exploring colors, designs and traditions of Japanese textiles, she explores this dual identity in forms of drawings, sculptures and installations.
Suzuki has taught widely including the Corning Museum of Glass, Bullseye Glass Research Center, Haystack Mountain School of Craft and Penland School of Crafts among others. Her works have been exhibited nationally including solo exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and Pensacola Museum of Art (FL) Group shows include the Washington Project for the Arts-Corcoran (DC), New Mexico Museum of Art ,Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Korea), and Museo Crocetti (Italy). Suzuki is a recent recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and was a recent fellow at the Vermont Studio Center.