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JENNIFER
HALVORSON 
Jennifer Halvorson
American b. 1984 "Examining everyday objects within the home, I aim to alter or combine forms in ways to illustrate their emotional significance. Some of my sculptures are designed to personify the object or display a human presence, while other pieces aim to evoke an emotional understanding with the viewer from the objects alone."
-Jennifer Halvorson |
Jennifer Halvorson
Thirst - green, 2012 Cast glass, cast bronze 2.75 x 4.25 x 3.5 inches - available - Jennifer Halvorson
Thirst - orange, 2012 Cast glass, cast bronze 3 x 4 x 3.25 inches - available - Jennifer Halvorson
Thirst - yellow, 2012 Cast glass, cast bronze 2.25 x 4.25 x 4 inches - available - Jennifer Halvorson
Benevolence, 2013 Cast glass 4.75 x 9.75 x 5.75 inches - available - Jennifer Halvorson
Bounty, 2013 Cast glass 5 x 10.5 x 7.5 inches - available - JENNIFER HALVORSON (b. 1984) is an artist and educator. Born in St. Louis, she earned dual B.F.A. degrees in Metal and Glass at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2005, she also studied abroad at the Australian National University in Canberra.
After completing her undergraduate studies, Jennifer traveled to Denmark as a Fulbright Scholar. She continued studying glass at Danmarks Designskole in Copenhagen and became assistant to glass artist Steffen Dam and Micha Karslund. Jennifer earned her Master of Fine Arts in Glass from the Rochester Institute of Technology, within the School for American Crafts. She was a resident artist at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center in fall 2010, and a visiting scholar within the glass department at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale spring 2011. From fall 2012, Jennifer has been working as an Assistant Professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She teaches a range of courses within the studios of glass, metal and sculpture. Jennifer has also taught kiln cast workshops in the United States and the United Kingdom. Jennifer's work has been exhibited internationally throughout the United States and Europe. Her work has been featured in New Glass Review 32 and 35, published by the Corning Museum of Glass, and exhibited at SOFA Chicago, fall 2013, 2016 and 2017. Jennifer Halvorson’s sculptures revolve around objects that are manipulated or collaged to express uneasy emotions that occur within the individual. EDUCATION
2008-2011 MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar, Danmarks Designskole, Copenhagen, Denmark 2005 Exchange Student, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, School of Art, Exchange Student Main Focus: Glass / Contemporary Study: Metal Enameling 2002–2007 BFA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS 2017 Provost Immersive Learning Grant, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA 2015 Aspire Junior Faculty Creative Arts Grant, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA 2010 Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ, USA 2007-2008 Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Denmark SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2017 Ball State University School of Art: Fostering Dialogue and Collaboration SOFA Sculptural Objects, Functional Art + Design, SOFA Chicago, IL Current Reflections on the Natural and the Manmade Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX A Cup of Sugar, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery, Binghamton, NY Momentum, The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, River House Arts, Toledo, OH Young Glass, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark / The Glass Factory, Sweden / The National Glass Centre, UK 2017 GAS Members Juried Exhibition, Glass Wheel Studio, Norfolk, VA Expression: Creative Glass Center Invitational, The Gallery of Fine Craft, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ 2016 Ball State University School of Art: Embracing the Past, Making the Future, SOFA Sculptural Objects, Functional Art + Design, SOFA Chicago, IL Transparent Femininity, Long Gallery, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, United Kingdom Glass Invitational 2016: Jennifer Halvorson and Robert Calafiore Exhibit A, Corning, NY 2015 Mend, Bullseye Resource Center, Mamaroneck, NY Expressions: Creative Glass Center Invitational, The Gallery of Fine Craft, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ Positive Negative 30: Uncanny Valley, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 2014 Captured Light Glass Biennial, Art Association Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Enduring Desires of the Fleeting Moment, Solo Exhibit, Leeds Gallery, Earlham, IN 2014 Taos Art Glass Invitational, David Anthony Fine Art Gallery, Taos, NM GATHERING: Contemporary Glass from the Heartland, Gallery 924, Indianapolis, IN Navigating Intuition, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN 2014 Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL EQUAL: Modern Family in Contemporary Art, Tipton Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN A New Look at Glass, Solo Exhibit, Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, WI Positive Negative 29: Open, Tipton Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 2013 Sculptural Objects, Functional Art + Design, SOFA Bullseye Gallery, Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 43rd Mid-States Craft Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts, Evansville, IN Food: Friend or Foe, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA Creative Glass Center Alumni Biennial, The Gallery of Fine Craft, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ Echo of the Object, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design, Wroclaw, Poland Wheaton Glass: The Art of the Fellowship, Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ Food as Subject for Craft, Craft is America Study Center, Los Angeles, CA 2012 Solace of the Commonplace, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN INVITATION /news from the glass studios/ Sponsored by Galerie Pokorna, hosted at Czech Center, New York City, NY Crafts National, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS Emerge 2012, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR The Art of Seduction: Exquisitely Crafted Temptations, The Rouse Gallery, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD 2011 Beyond Useful and Beautiful: Rethinking Domestic Craft, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX Bittersweet, Solo Exhibit, Gallery One One, Brazee Street Studios, Cincinnati, OH Silver Linings, Bellowe Family Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY Prague Festival, PF11, International Meeting of Glass Artists, American Cultural Center, Prague, Czech Republic Forget me not, Solo Exhibit, Vergette Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Nest, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA domesticity: how we live, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2010 Stanislav Libensky Award, Exhibition, Queen Anne’s Summer Palace - Belvedere, Prague, Czech Republic 20/20, Metal Alumni Exhibition, School of Art and Design Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL Presence within Absence, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Joy Gallery, Rochester, NY 2009 Generously Odd: Craft Now, Lexington Art League Gallery, Lexington, KY 2008 Embellished Traditions, Solo Exhibit, Danmarks Designskole, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007 The Legacy of University of Illinois Glass, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL 2007 B.F.A. Graduate Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 2006 Reinterpreting the Vessel, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 B.F.A. Graduate Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2012-Present Assistant Professor, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana Instruct undergraduate glass courses surveying blowing, fusing, casting and cold working. Instruct beginning sculpture and metal course covering modeling and fabrication. Instruct Graduate Seminar courses. Served as Graduate Coordinator working on the development and organization of MFA program. 2017 & 2015 Instructor, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Taught “Casting on a Different Plane, Press Molds”, one-week kiln cast workshop. 2016 Visiting Artist, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wroclaw, Poland Gave a presentation and demonstrations on the press mold process. 2016 Visiting Artist, National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom Gave two lectures, one on my work and one of kiln cast press molds. Instructed two day press mold workshop to 12 second year students and 8 graduate students. 2015 Visiting Artist, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Presented a lecture on my work as well as the process of kiln cast press molds. 2014 Teaching Assistant, Joanna Manousis, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Assist with “Internal Structures”, one week kiln cast workshop. 2014 Visiting Artist, University of Wisconsin, Steven-Point, Wisconsin Presented a lecture on my work and solo exhibition that was installed in the university gallery. Gave presentations and demonstrations on honeycomb mold making as well as press molds. 2013 Teaching Assistant, Wonjoo Park, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington Assist with “Transparent Metamorphosis”, three week kiln forming and casting workshop. 2011 Visiting Scholar, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois Involved in graduate critiques throughout the semester. Instruct one week press mold workshop for students within the glass department. WORK EXPERIENCE 2014 Commission of the Life is Priceless Foundation, New York City A foundation supporting research for depression Commission of the Emens Auditorium, Ball State University A program celebrating Emens 50th Anniversary 2012 Commission of the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards A program of The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation 2008 Artist Assistant, Steffen Dam & Micha Karlslund, Ebeltoft, Denmark Assist in glass hot shop and cold shop for a four month period. PUBLICATIONS 2016 Exhibition Review, by Lindsay Woodruff, GLASS: The Urban Glass Art Quarterly, Spring 2016 Number 142 2016 Art Glass Today 2, by Sandra Korinchak, Schiffer Publishing 2014 Exhibition Review, by Cortney Heimerl, GLASS: The Urban Glass Art Quarterly, Summer 2014 Number 135 2014 New Glass Review 35, The Corning Museum of Glass 2012 Jiyongians; Cortney Boyd, Jennifer Halvorson and Wes Valdez, by John Drury, NEUES GLAS, Spring 2012 (1/12) 2011 Member Profile, by Scott Benefield, GAS News, Volume 22, Issue 4, Glass Arts Society Newsletter 2011 New Glass Review 32, The Corning Museum of Glass 2009 500 Enameled Objects, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. – Lark Books 2007 500 Metal Vessels, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. – Lark Books PUBLICATIONS AUTHORED 2017 “The Original Approach to Rapid Production: Fenton Glass Company and the Potential of Pressed Glass”. GAS News, Glass Arts Society Newsletter, Volume 28, Issue 3, Fall 2017. Page 20 - 21. Digital Print 2012 “The newly unveiled 2012 Rakow Commission work by Denmark’s Steffen Dam examines the experience of a flower from 24 angles”. The GLASS Quaterly Hot Sheet, October 22. Digital Print AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 2014 First Place 3D, Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford, IL 2013 Highly Commended - Bullseye Glass Category, The Glass Prize 2013, Warm Glass UK 2012 Best of Show and First Place Awards, 2012 Indiana Glass Artists Exhibition, Anderson, IN Awarded Emerging Artists in Residence (EAiR), Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Partial Scholarship, Corning Museum of Glass, The Studio, Corning, NY 2011 NICHE Student Award Finalist, Mixed and Miscellaneous Media, NICHE Magazine 2010 GAS Conference Student Scholarship, Glass Art Society, Louisville, KY 2007 Educational Endowment Scholarshop, Honoroable Mention, SNAG Organization Outstanding Senior Award, Metal, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois Allie D. Hughston–Enochs Memorial Scholarship Outstanding Graduating Senior, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois Partner Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA NICHE Student Award Finalist, Fibers, NICHE Magazine 2006 Bronze Tablet/University Honors, University of Illinois Outstanding Senior Award – Glass, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois PERMANENT COLLECTIONS 2017 National Glass Centre Collection National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom 2011 Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship Collection Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Millville, NJ 2007 Medical Science Building University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL |
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