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Katie Glusica

Fibers professor

Education

  • M.F.A., fibers, Savannah College of Art and Design
  • B.F.A., crafts, Virginia Commonwealth University

Credentials

  • Professor of fibers, 2020–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Freelance custom weaving, 2018, Mushaboom Design
  • Freelance rug restoration, repair, and individual and museum consulting services, 2014–present
  • Rug restoration/repair, sales and customer service, Savannah Galleries, Savannah, GA
  • Assistant manager, 2004–08, Christian Lorraine Oriental Rugs, Richmond, VA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • American Craft Council Emerging Voices Award Nominee, 2014
  • NICHE Awards Finalist, 2014
  • Excellence in Studio Practice, Emerging Artist Alumni Award by the Craft/Material Studies Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012
  • Best of Show, Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, 2010
  • Award for Best Thesis Proposal, Winter Quarter, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2010

Publications and presentations

Lectures

  • Lecture with Anna Bushman for collaborative exhibition, Reversible Perspective, at ArtSpace, Richmond, Va., 2015.
  • "Oriental Rug Repair and Restoration," lecture at Savannah Galleries, 2013.
  • Artist Lecture for the Chattahoochee Weaver's Guild, 2012.
  • Grad.Salon presenter, lecture on thesis proposal and graduate work at Smithfield Cottage, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2009.
  • "Oriental Rug Repair and Restoration," lecture in collaboration with Danny Kaminsky at Savannah Galleries, 2009.

Publications

  • "The Seen and Unseen: Weaving as a Metaphor for Wave/Particle Duality," Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2016.

Jurying

  • Marketplace Vendors, Textile Society of America Symposium, 2016
  • Fiber Student Drawing and Conceptualization Competition, Savannah College of Art and Design Fibers Department, 2014
  • Senior Fiber Student Drawing and Conceptualization Competition, Savannah College of Art and Design Fibers Department, 2013

Collections

  • Savannah College of Art and Design, Permanent Collection, 2018
  • Numerous private collectors 2010–19
  • Savannah College of Art and Design, Permanent Collection, 2008

Exhibitions

  • SCAD at Design Miami, work purchased and exhibited in an alumni showcase at the SCAD booth at Design Miami, Miami, 2018
  • Making Waves, a group exhibition with Lucrezia Bieler, Jennifer McCurdy, Robert Donne and myself at the Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Permanent Collections Gallery, Mesa, Ariz., 2017
  • Fold/Unfold, a group exhibition with weavers from around the U.S. who were invited to make contemporary versions of early American over-shot coverlets. I created a hand-drawn draft and draw-down for the show which took place at the Lyndon House Cultural Center in Athens, Ga., Catalogue published, 2017
  • Toast, a juried exhibition and auction of faculty, current student, and alumni work to benefit the Craft/Material Studies department at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., 2016
  • Reversible Perspective, collaborative exhibition in weaving, drawing, and light with Anna Bushman Artspace at Plant Zero, Richmond, Va., 2015
  • NICHE Awards Finalists Gallery, Buyers Market of American Craft, Philadelphia, 2014
  • Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, D.C, juried, The National Building Museum, 2013
  • Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pa., 2012
  • Juror: Cindi Strauss Assistant Director, Programming and Curator for Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2012
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Decorative Fiber, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, juried, 2012
  • Pushing the Limits, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, Va., 2012
  • Longitude, in conjunction with the HGA conference Convergence, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, Calif., 2012
  • CraftForms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pa., 2011
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Decorative Fiber, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, 2011
  • The American Craft Exposition, Decorative Fiber, Henry Crown Sports Pavilion, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 2011
  • N[e]W[e]ave, Common Wealth Gallery, presented by the University of Wisconsin Design Gallery, Madison, Wisc., 2011 
  • Smithsonian Craft Show, Decorative Fiber, The National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., 2011
  • the loom: on, around & through, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, 2011