Carol A. Milne

Education
Hot cast and Kiln-cast glass, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA 2000 – 2002
Graduate studies in sculpture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 1988 – 1989
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont, Canada 1985
French Language Studies, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France 1980

Solo Exhibitions
2023 Knotty & Nice, Culture Object Gallery, NYC, NY
2022 To Knit or Knot, Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC
2020 Vogue Knitting LIVE! New York City Marriott Marquis, NY, NY
2019+ Carol Milne: Knit Wit, Bainbridge Island Museum or Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
2017    Vogue Knitting LIVE! Seattle, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
            Carol Milne: Knitting Glass, Schiepers Gallery, Hasselt, Belgium
2015    Vogue Knitting LIVE! New York City Marriott Marquis, NY, NY
2014   Vogue Knitting LIVE! Seattle, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
            Vogue Knitting LIVE! New York City, Marriott Marquis, NY, NY
2013   Vogue Knitting LIVE!,Seattle, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
2010   Standing Tall:  Towers in Glass, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
2009  Facing the Future, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
2008  Glass Slippers, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
            In the Name of Love, installation of 38 glass sculptures, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA

 Notable Collections
Amazon Headquarters, Seattle, WA
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
Charleroi Museum, Charleroi, Belgium
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Glasmuseum Lette,  Coesfeld, Germany
The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey
Gustav Selter GmbH & Co KG, Germany
The Kamm Teapot Foundation, Sparta, NC
MusVerre Nord, Sars Poteries, France
Notojima Glass Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan
UVU Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT

Awards
2019 Amazon Artist in Residence, Amazon Headquarters, Seattle, WA
2017   Juror’s award, “All Things Considered 9: Basketry in the 21st Century”, NBO
2015   1 Special Citation & 1 Honorable Menion,  9th Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition,
           Cheongju, Republic of Korea
2015   Joan Eliot Sappington Award, “On the Fringe: Today’s Twist on Fiber Art”, Lake Oswego Fest.of the Arts
2011    2 Honorable Mentions,  Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
2011    Honorable Mention, Art of Our Century, UVU Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
2010   Silver Prize, International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Japan
2007  Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Award, Artist's Trust, Seattle, WA
2002  Jon and Mary Shirley Glass Scholarship, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA

Selected Group Exhibitions 
2023 Sur Le Fil, MusVerre le Nord, Sars Poteries, France
LEO: Light Emitting Objects, Culture Object Gallery, NYC, NY
2022 Harmony & Balance: Glass Lives With Light, AKM Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
32nd Anniversayr Gala: One-Of-A-Kind, Kittrell Riffkind Gallery, Dallas, TX
Outside the Box 3: Artworks with Unusual Mediums, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Joella March
Like Mother, White River Valley Museum, Auburn, WA
Collect Art Fair London, Represented by Culture Object
Design Lab 2022 at Bergorff Goodman, curated by Culture Object, NY, NY
2021 Craftforms 2021, juried by Carol Sauvion, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
LIT: Are We Not a Shining Light? Culture Object, NY, NY
Weave, Knit Stitch, Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC
2020 Excellence in Fibers VI, New Bedford Art Musuem, New Bedford, MA
From Many, One, Culture Object, NY, NY
30th Anniversary: One of a Kind, Kittrell Riffkind Artglass, Dallas, TX
Tools of the Trade: Reinterpreting Traditional Women’s Work, Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC
Warp & Weft, Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC
2019 Fiber, Form and Function, View Arts Center, Old Forge, NY
Domestic Matters: The Uncommon Apron, curated by Gail M. Brown, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
Uncommon Threads, curated by The Jealous Curator, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Fiberart International, Pittsburgh, PA
2018   BAMbiennial 2018: BAM!Glasstastic, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
           City of Shoreline Portable Works, Shoreline City Hall, Shoreline, WA
           Tactile, Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium
           Tenacious, Suzanne Zahr Gallery, Seattle, WA
           Following A Thread, Ballard Works, Seattle, WA
           Nevertheless, She Persisted, Mount Baker Neighborhood Center, Seattle, WA.
           All Things Considered 9:  Basketry in the 21st Century, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA
            Insight, Weisser Glass Gallery, Kensington, MD
            Revolution in the Making: The Pussyhat Project, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2017   Breaking the Glass Ceiling:  Women in Glass, Wayne Art Center,  Wayne, PA
            Making Our Mark:  Art by Pratt Teaching Artists, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
            One of a Kind – 27th Anniversary Show, Kittrell Riffking Art Glass, Dallas, TX
            All Things Considered 9:  Basketry in the 21st Century, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
            Baskets Revisited, Art Stop Gallery, Tacoma, WA
            Making it in Crafts III, The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Lafayette, IN.
            Fiber Fusion, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA.
2016   One of a Kind – 26th Anniversary show, Kittrell Riffkind Artglass, Dallas, TX
            Bound by Glass, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
            Glass Fashion Show, Glass Art Society Conference, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
            Madrona Fiber Arts, Hotel Murano, Tacoma, WA
2015   Like Mother, Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave, Shoreline, WA
            9th Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
            Creative Knitting, La Conner Quilt & Textiles Museum, La Conner, WA
            On the Fringe: Today’s Twist on Fiber Art, Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, Lake Oswego, OR
            Many Facets of Glass, Watson MacRae Gallery, Sanibel Island, FL
            Six Journeys, Matzke Fine Art & Sculpture Gallery, Camano Island, WA
            TEXTure, METHOD Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014   Reaching Beyond:  The NW Designer Craftsmen at 60, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
            Bellwether 2014:  Connect, Artwalk Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
            I Can’t Believe It’s Fiber, Museo, Langley, WA
            Considering the Kylix, Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ
            Tangible Evidence:  NWDC, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
2013   The Big Little Show, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
            Fiberart International 2013 (traveling), San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
            Teapots! 7th Invitational, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
            Fiberart International 2013, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
            34th Annual Mesa Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Art Center Museum, Mesa, AZ
            Stitch, artEast, Issaquah, WA
2012   NWDC at Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, W.
            10 x 10 x 10 Tieton 2012, Tieton, WA
            Bellwether 2012 reGeneration: Artwalk Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
            Touchables, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
            Teapots! 6, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
            The Clay Edge, Northwest Woodworkers Gallery, Seattle, WA
            Hot Tea!  13th Biennial Teapot Exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
            Earth & Fire:  Materials and Methods, Pratt Gallery at Tashiro Kaplan, Seattle, WA
2011    11.11.11, Community Artists Program, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
            7th Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
           Art of Our Century, UVU Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
           Beyond Glass, with Bill Baber and Michael Roco, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
           The Perfect Fit – Shoes Tell Stories, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
            NWDC Invitational, Matzke Fine Arts, Camano Island, WA
           The Perfect Fit – Shoes Tell Stories, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2010   The Perfect Fit – Shoes Tell Stories, Albany Institue of History & Art, Albany, New York
            Things We Hunt,  Allied Arts, Richland, WA.
            The Perfect Fit – Shoes Tell Stories, The Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
            The Int. Ex.  of Glass Kanazawa, Ishikawa & Notojima Glass Art Museum,  Ishikawa, Japan
           Art at the Port Juried Exhibition, Anacortes, WA
           Bellwether 2010:  Artwalk Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
           Contain: Vessels and the Art of Containment, Luke & Eloy Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
            31st Annual Mesa Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
2009  The Perfect Fit – Shoes Tell Stories, The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
           Fibers Expanded, Luke and Eloy Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
           Fragile Existence, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
           Containers, Containment and Contents, Art Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
2008  Molten Magic, North Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
           Pilchuck on Display: An Exhibition of International Glass Art, The Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA
           High Tech/Low Tech, Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, Portland, OR
           Northwest Designer Craftsmen Group Show, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA
           The CVG Show, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA
2007  High Tech/Low Tech, Kenneth J. Minnaert Arts Center, Olympia, WA
            Pilchuck on Display: An Exhibition of International Glass Art, The Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA
            Animalia, Allied Arts, Richland, WA
            Craft Biennial: A Review of Northwest Art & Craft, OCAC, Portland, OR
            Lucent: A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Glass, Calgary, & Edmonton, AB
2006  To Hold Within: Redefining the Container, Part I, Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA
            Pilchuck on Display: An Exhibition of International Glass Art, The Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA
            Pilchuck 20, 2nd Annual Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise ID
            Good Things/Small Packages: An Intimate Look at Small Glass, Public Glass, San Francisco,CA
            North American Glass 2006, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT, Juried by James Mongrain
            Crafts National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2005  Pilchuck on Display: An Exhibition of International Glass Art, The Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA
           New Hope 3rd Annual Indoor Sculpture Exhibit, New Hope, PA
           Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
2004  A Contemporary Garden Art Show, City People’s Mercantile, Seattle, WA
            Pilchuck on Display: An Exhibition of International Glass Art, The Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA
            Pilchuck Glass School Instructor’s Show, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
            Northwest Biennial: Building Wise, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
            Body Politics, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, Juried by Gene Gentry McMahon
2002  Pilchuck on Display: An Exhibition of International Glass Art, The Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA

Public Art
Nutcracker March 2007, “The Joking Jester”, “Gifted” & “All Wrapped Up” with J. Isaacson, Seattle
Nutcracker March 2006 “The Nutcroaker King” & “Frosty”, Seattle, WA
Nutcracker March 2005 “King Candy Cane” with Jasmine Isaacson , Seattle, WA
Ponies on Parade 2004 “Candy Cane” with Jasmine Isaacson, Seattle, WA
Pigs on Parade 2001 “Proscuitto” and “Swine St. Express”, Seattle, WA
Metro Transit bus shelter, glass mosaic working with middle school students, Seattle, WA  2003
Salmon Bay Elementary School, landscape renovation coordinator, Seattle, WA 2000-2002
Licton Springs Park Playground, design/build mosaic & tile elements with volunteers, Seattle, WA 1993 – 1996

Teaching
Kiln casting, hot glass casting, moldmaking and wax working Pratt Fine Arts Center, 2002 – present
Teaching Assistant for Susan Balshor’s beginning Kiln Casting, Pilchuck Glass School, 2004
Teaching Assistant for Hot casting and Kiln Casting, Pratt Fine Arts Center 2001 - 2004
Art Instructor, Salmon Bay Elementary School, Seattle, WA 1995 – 2007

Lectures & Workshops
2023 Presentation, Arizona Glass Alliance, Phoenix, AZ
Knitted Glass Workshop, Milkweed Arts, Phoenix, AZ
Lost Wax Threesome, Salem Community College, Penns Grove, NJ
2022 Knitted Glass Workshop, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2019 Knitted Glass Workshop, Milkweed Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2018   Knitting With Glass, The Studio @CMOG, Corning, NY
Lecture, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
            Knitted Glass Workshop, Weisser Glass, Kensington, MD
            Lecture, Arizona Glass Alliance, Phoenix, AZ
            Lecture, Glass Alliance New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
2017   Knitted Glass workshop, Espace Verre, Montreal, Canada
2016   Knitted Glass workshop, Tudor Rose Glass Works, Margate, Tasmania, AU
            Lecture, New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass Conference, Oct. 22, Auckland, New Zealand
            Knitted Glass workshops(2), DiCast Glass, Hamilton, New Zealand
            Knitted Glass workshop, Art Glass Array, St. Charles, MO
            Knitted Glass workshop, Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
            Knitted Glass workshop, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
            Knitted Glass workshop, Weisser Glass Gallery, Kensington, MD
2015    Knitted Glass workshop & Lecture, The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey
            Lecture, Toronto Knitters Guild, May 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
            Lecture, Northwest Designer Craftsmen, May 13, Seattle, WA
            Knitted Glass workshop, Weisser Glass Gallery, Kensington, MD
            Lecture, Snohomish Knitter’s Guild, April 14, Snohomish, WA
            Lecture, Madrona Fiberarts, February  13, Hotel Murano, Tacoma, WA
            Lecture (group), in conjuction with TEXTure exhibition, January 29, Seattle Public Library
            Knitted Glass workshop, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
2014   Wax workshops, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
             Knitted Glass workshop, Weisser Glass Gallery, Kensington, MD
             Knitted Glass workshop, The Ranch Center for Arts & Crafts, Snohomish, WA
             Knitted Glass workshop & Lecture, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
             Lecture, Seattle Knitter’s Guild, March 12, Seattle, WA
             Knitted Glass Workshop, Chicago Glass Collective, Chicago, ILL
             Lecture, Contemporary Quilt Association, February 8, Seattle, WA
             Lecture, Vogue Knitting LIVE New York City, January 19, New York, NY
2013    Knitted Glass workshop, The Glass Furnace, Istanbul Turkey
            Lecture, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, April 17, Pittsburgh, PA
            Lecture, Vogue Knitting LIVE Seattle, April 7, Bellevue, WA
            Lecture, Women Painters of WA, January 9, Seattle, WA

 Print Media
Crane, Dorothee, “Zwei rechts, zwei links mit Bruchgefahr”, Patchwork Professional, 05/2023, pp.52-59.
Velez, Jani, “Extreme Knitting”, Homespun, May 2018, pp 84-85.
Orlando, Jordie R., ed.   Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Odd is Art.  Orlando, FL, 2018.  P.16.
Kroll, Cosima, ed.  Creative Extremes:  The world’s most amazing creative projects.  Stuttgart,Germany: frechverlag GmbH, 2017.  pp. 92-95.
Townsend, Jen and Renée Zettle-Sterling.  Cast:  Art and Objects Made Using Humanity’s Most Transformational Process. Atglen, PA:  Schiffer,              2017.  p.243.
Klotz, Uta M., “Carol Milne – Knitting”,  Neues Glas/New Glass art & architecture, 50677 Koln, Germany, Issue  02/2017. P. 36-39.
Rooney, E. Ashley. Artistry in Fiber, Vol. 2: Sculpture. S.l.: Schiffer, 2017. Print. p 140-141.
Wild, Stephen.  Laura Donefer’s Crazy Corning Glass Fashion Show. Blurb.com. 2016.
Purchia, Barbara, and E. Ashley. Rooney. Glass Art: 112 Contemporary Artists. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2016. Print.
Tibballs, Geoff and Robert L. Ripley. Ripley's Believe It or Not!: Eye-popping Oddities 2016.  Random House, 2015. P.204.
Hurley, Susan.  “Designer Edge: Carol Milne’s glass knits”, Homespun Magazine, North Ryde, NSW, 2113, April 1, 2015, p.27.
Isaacson, Steven.   Carol Milne Knitted Glass: How Does She Do That?, Createspace, 2013.
Denny, Shannon Munro. “Heart of Glass”, Knitting magazine, Issue 121, October 2013.
Kramer, Nicola. “Knitting with Glass”, Knit Today magazine, Issue 86, June 2013.
Martin, Brigitte,  Humor in Craft, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.  2012.
“A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Glass:  Lucent”, Glass Art Society of Canada, 6/1/2007, p. 24.
Pigs on Parade, The Marrathon Group, Seattle, WA, September 30, 2001, p. 131 & 143.

TV/Video
Video Interview by Phillip Townsend for Nancy Guppy's ArtZone
International Foundation For Women Artists (IFWA), interview at Vogue Knitting LIVE New York, Jan 2015
“An Evening With: TEXTure – Visual Arts and Poets Create”, Seattle Channel, Seattle, WA, January 29, 2015.
 “Draw on Clouds, Build it, Draw it, Play it, BiDiPi #48”, VSauce 2, November 27, 2014.
Carol Milne’s Youtube channel

 Online Periodicals
Hayley Evans. "Carol Milne Intricately "Knits" Glass To Create Dainty And Beautiful Objects."  BeautifulDecay. A. H. Fallah, Dec. 2015
"GLASS SCULPTURE | CAROL MILNE." Feel Desain. La Stampa, 19 Nov. 2015.
Avital Maor. "How Current Design Echoes Traditional Craft Practices.(Hebrew)" DIZ 8.15. Designer/Israel, Aug. 2015, p.37.
Inigo Del Castillo . "Artist Uses Glass Instead of Yarn to Create Amazing Knitting Sculptures." Ideas.Time Magazine, 14 Nov.  2014.
Kevin Hartness . "Knitting with Glass?" BostonGlobe.com. N.p., 23 Oct. 2014.
Lela Nargi. "Blast Off." Twist Collective Winter 2014. Twist Collective, Jan.-Feb. 2014.
Kurt Shaw . "Morgan Contemporary Glass Teapots Exhibit Pours on the Creativity." Trib Live.Tribune Review, 18 May 2013.
Rachel Hobson. "Knitted Glass From Carol Milne." Make: We Are All Makers. Makezine, 8 Sept. 2011        

Website Publications
Taggart, Emma.  “8 Contemporary Glass Artists That Shatter the Boundaries of the Craft” , 10 May 2018. Web.           https://mymodernmet.com/contemporary-glass-art/.
From Colossal. "The Art of Glass: Motion, Space and Form." Friends of Glass. Friends of Glass, 08 Dec. 2015.
Christina Lan. "23 Art Designs That Enraptured Us in 2015." BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed, 7 Dec. 2015.
Michelle K Hogan. "Carol Milne Knits Glass to Create Sculptures That Are Both Cozy and Fragile."  Inhabitat Sustainable Design                           Innovation Eco Architecture Green Building. Jill Fehrenbacher, 07 Dec. 2015.
Tchoupakov, Anya. "Knitted" Glass Is Both Cozy-And Delicate | The Creators Project." The CreatorsProject. The Creators Project, 22                   Nov. 2015.
Léa Benatar. "Knit Glass Sculptures by Carol Milne." Fubiz. Fubiz Media, 18 Nov. 2015.
"These Knitted Glass Sculptures Will Confuse and Amaze You - Techly." Techly. Zac Zavos & Zolton Zavos, 11 Nov. 2015.
Christopher Jobson . "Delicate 'Knit' Glass Sculptures by Carol Milne." Colossal. Christopher Jobson,10 Nov 2015.
Kelsey Fox. "30 Most Amazing Glass Artists Alive Today." Graphic Design Degree Hub. N.p., July 2015.
"Knitting Glass/Carol Milne." My Knit Affair. Craft Affair UG, 25 June 2015.
Meredith Etherington-Smith . "Antenna: Glass Makes New Waves." Antenna Column: Glass Makes New Waves. Christie's: The Art People,              17 Mar. 2015.
Inigo Del Castillo . "Artist Uses Glass Instead of Yarn to Make These Amazing Knittings." Lost At E Minor: For Creative People. Lost At E                 Minor, 23 Oct. 2014.
Katy Cowan . "The Impossible Craft of Knitting with Glass." Creative Boom. Katy Cowan, 16 Oct. 2014.
Sara Barnes. "Incredible Knitted Sculptures Made Entirely out of Glass." My Modern Met. My Modern Met, 16 Oct. 2014.
Christopher Jobson . "Carol Milne Knits with Glass." Colossal: Art, Design and Visual Culture. Christopher Jobson, 15 Oct. 2014.

Publications as Author
"In the Studio." Surface Design Journal 2016th ser. 40.1 (2016): 74-77. Print.
 “I Knit With Glass To Create Unique Sculptures." Bored Panda RSS. Bored Panda RSS, 18 Nov. 2015.
“It’s All About Connections”, Glass Line Magazine, vol 29, No.2, August/September 2015.
"Stitching Us All Together." CNC. Center for Knit & Crochet, 1 Oct. 2014.
"Knitting with Glass." Contemporary Canadian Glass. Glass Art Canada, 1 Aug. 2011.
“Creative Process”, Fiberarts Magazine, Loveland, CO, Summer 2011, p. 24-25.
In the Name of Love,  blurb.com, 11/14/2009.
Glass Slippers,  blurb.com, 7/17/2008.
Knitted Glass:  Kiln cast lead crystal bowls, blurb.com, 7/15/2008.
“Gift Bombs”, GAS member profile, GAS news, Glass Art Society, January 2008.