Kit Paulson Lecture/Demo

Kit Paulson - Lecture/Demo

Thursday May 14th from 5pm to 7pm

Join us at the studio with visiting artist Kit Paulson for an exciting look into her work and process! Specializing in borosilicate flameworking with a focus on creating complex structural forms from small motifs, Kit Paulson creates works that celebrate the delicate nature of glass and the extraordinary detail possible when fragility is explored. Some of her pieces reimagine historical objects, rendering them in ghostly and reflective material. Others map hidden natural processes and forms, revealing them through a material that inherently captures light. Still others blend the two, giving shape to contraptions that never existed but appear as if they could have.

Kit Paulson received her MFA from Southern Illinois University and her BFA from Alfred University. She has taught across the United States and internationally at schools including Penland School of Craft; Pilchuck Glass School; Corning Museum of Glass; Bildwerk Frauenau, Germany; National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland; and Canberra Glassworks in Canberra, Australia. Kit has completed residencies including the S12 Gallery in Bergen, Norway, the Tacoma Museum of Glass, and a three-year residency at Penland School of Craft. Her work has been published in New Glass Review editions 36, 37, 38 and 41, and is in the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum. She currently maintains an independent studio practice in Penland, North Carolina, USA.