The Department of Craft/Material Studies presents a visiting artist lecture by Anna Mlasowsky on Tuesday, April 19 from 12:30 – 2:00pm at the Bowe Street Parking Deck, Room 535, 609 Bowe St., Richmond, VA.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in 1984 in East Germany, Anna Mlasowsky holds a BA in Glass from the Royal Danish Academy and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington. Anna received an Artist Trust Fellowship in 2017, was one of the Emerging Voices in Craft Shortlist Award recipients and was awarded an Emerging Artist residency at Centrum Foundation. Anna has been included in Museum collections of The Corning Museum of Glass, The Toyama City Museum and the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Art and Design, The European Museum for Contemporary Glass, The Northwest Museum of Art, The Bellevue Arts Museum and the Tacoma Museum of Glass and the Stockholm Architecture Museum.
Her work has been featured in American Craft, the Shanghai Museum of Art Magazine, PBS Discovery Channel Canada, and Half Cut Tea.
In 2018 she received the Aldo Bellini Award, the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence and was a Museum of Art and Design Burk Prize finalist. She was the Windgate Visiting Artist at SUNY Purchase College in the Spring of 2019 and is a Haas-Short Term Fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia in 2021/22.