Beth Lipman

Beth Lipman (born 1971, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary artist working in glass. She is best known for her glass still-life compositions which reference the work of 16th- and 17th-century European painters.^[1]

Biography

Beth Lipman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1971. Her mother was a self-taught painter whose collection of books on folk painting influenced Lipman at an early age. At 16 she attended a summer art camp at the New England Craft Program.^[2]

Lipman attended the Massachusetts College of Art in 1989, then transferred to the Tyler School of Art at Temple University to finish her degree. She graduated from Tyler in 1994 with a BFA in glass and fibers.^[3]

Career

While at school, Lipman applied to an apprenticeship at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.^[4] After the apprenticeship, she completed a number of residencies at programs including the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WA, in 2003; the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, in 2006; and The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, in 2006 and 2011.^[5]

Lipman originally worked as a solo artist, but in 2003 she began working with a team to create large-scale works such as "Bancketje (Banquet)," which was created as part of a residency at WheatonArts, Millville, NJ, and is now part of the collection at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C..^[6]

In addition to working as an artist, Lipman has held a number of positions. She served as the education director for UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY from 1997 until 2006.^[4] During that time, she was also the head of the glass department at the Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA (2002-2004) and the studio director of education and artist services at the Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts (2004-2005). From 2005 until 2011, she was the arts and industry coordinator at the Kohler Arts Center. Lipman has taught at many schools, including New York University, New York, NY; Parsons School of Design, New York, NY; the Corning Museum of Glass; Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC; and the Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA.^[7]

Lipman's work is represented in a number of museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Corning Museum of Glass; the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA; the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, among others.^[5]

She has won numerous awards and honors, including the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2013), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2012), the United States Artists Berman Bloch Fellow (2011), the UrbanGlass Young Talent Award (2006), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (2005), the Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant (2001), and the National Endowment for the Arts Grant (2001).^[7]

References

Further reading

• Frantz, Susanne; Milosch, Jane. From the ground up: Renwick Craft Invitational 2007. Smithsonian American Art Museum. pp. 30–43. ISBN 9780979067815. 
• Ellen J, Keiter; Neil, Watson; Tina, Oldknow. Shattering glass: new perspectives : November 11, 2007-February 24, 2008, Katonah Museum of Art. Katonah Museum of Art. pp. 20–21. ISBN 9780915171736. 
• Beth, Lipman; Judith, Tannenbaum. After you're gone: an installation by Beth Lipman [exhibition] August 22, 2008-January 18, 2009. The Museum. 
• Page, Andrew (Spring 2010). "Mortality, Frozen: The Still Lives of Beth Lipman". Glass (118): 22–27. ISSN 1064-900X. 

External links

• Lipman's website
• "Biography: Beth Lipman". Corning Museum of Glass. Corning Museum of Glass. Retrieved 17 December 2015. 
• Video overview of Precarious Possessions installation at Ringling Museum of Art