PAUL STANKARD

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Stankard finds many corresponding themes between his work and that of Walt Whitman:

“As an artist who has worked with my hands in glass for 35 years, the line "the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery" continues to amaze me. And the native flowers he chose to write about like pokeberries and common mullein are easily overlooked, ordinary. He speaks of the ant's perfection, the egg of a wren. 

Experiencing the plant kingdom with Whitman energizes me. I have internalized his works with my feelings to recapitulate and rework those feelings in glass. His work informs my aesthetic and elevates my expectations of myself as an artist. What Whitman did with words, I seek to do with glass on a visual level. My dream is to articulate fresh information about nature in glass. My work is driven by respect for living things, and by delicacy and detail. I try to match Whitman's depth of feeling with my own passion and skill. You have to bring something to Whitman - it isn't immediately available at first. I want from the viewer the same openness, curiosity, and maturity that are needed for Whitman's work.”

 Paul Stankard is one of the most prestigious and world-renown glass artists, famed for encasing his extremely delicate sculptures of flowers and insects in globes or cubes of clear glass. He is the recipient of numerous awards and holds two honorary doctorates. Stankard's work has been shown across the United States and Europe and in Japan and Taiwan. He is currently a Fellow at the Corning Museum of Glass and serves as a founding board member of the Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, New Jersey.

 

Education

Salem Community College, Pennsgrove, New Jersey

Rowan University, 1997, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Glassboro, New Jersey

Muskingum College, 2007, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, New Concord, OH

Salem Community College Honorary Associate Degree

Selected Public Collections

  • Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

  • Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH *

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL *

  • Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenan, WI *

  • Birks Museum, Milliken University, IL

  • Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, AL

  • Boston Fine Arts Museum, Boston, MA

  • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

  • Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

  • Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

  • Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

  • Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY *

  • Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH

  • de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA

  • Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI GlasMuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark

  • Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, Dearborn, MI*

  • Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

  • Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

  • Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV

  • Hsinchu Cultural Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  • Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

  • The JBSpeed Museum, Louisville, KY

  • Karnnert Art Museum, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL

  • Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

  • Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

  • Mint Museum Randolph, Charlotte, NC

  • Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO

  • Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

  • Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL

  • Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Morristown, NJ

  • Musee des Arts Decoratif, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France

  • Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  • Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

  • Museum of Glass:  International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA

  • Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Arts, Millville,NJ*

  • Muskingum University, New Concord, OH

  • Newark Public Museum, Newark, NJ

  • New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

  • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

  • Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

  • Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art,

  • The Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.

  • Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

  • Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada *

  • Salem Community College, Carney’s Point, NJ *

  • Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

  • Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Lorretto, PA

  • Suwa Museum, Toyoda, Japan

  • The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

  • The Sandwich Historical Society Glass Museum, Sandwich, MA

  • The Works, Ohio Center for History, Art and Technology, Newark, OH

  • Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

  • University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI

  • Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

  • Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD

  • Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

  • Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI                                          *major collection

 Selected Public Exhibitions 

2006 "Floating World: Exhibition of Paul J. Stankard," Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, MI
Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, WI
"Northern Light: Exhibition of International Glass Art Celebrating 10 Years of North Lands Creative Glass," North Lands Creative Glass, Edinburgh, Scotland
"Paul Stankard - Glass Flowers and Walt Whitman,"  James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Artist Lecture, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian  American Art Museum, Washington DC

2005 Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
"The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, " University of Hawaii,  Honolulu, HI
"Paul J. Stankard: Paperweight," Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
"Where there's Smoke...Ceramics and Glass," Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
"Blowing Hot, Cutting Cold: 35th Anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement," Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL
"Sculpting in Glass," Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
"Magnificent Extravagance: Artists and Opulence," Charles A Wustrum, Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

"Kanaz Forest of Creation Glass Art Exhibition," Kanaz Forest of Creation, Japan, 2005

2004 Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ
Museum of Arts and Design, NY

2003 "Poetic Vision of Nature: The Solo Exhibition of Paul Stankard," Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2002 "The 8th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition," University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, (catalog)
"Paul Stankard: Homage to Nature A thirty Year Retrospective," Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

2001 "2001 Contemporary Glass Exhibition," Beijing to Shanghai, China

2000 "Paul J. Stankard," Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY
"Defining Craft I," American Craft Museum, New York City, NY

1999 "Glass!, Glorious Glass!," Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC