Artists selected for the 2009 BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass are:

Artist Statement
Memory is a concept that can trigger a sensation or an idea, which comes through in the form of a feeling or an emotion as opposed to a vivid image.  I am interested in work that evokes a sensory experience felt by and through the body.  For me, art is an experience beginning with perception and internal feelings.   It is through these concepts and their relationship with the body that I develop my work. I work with both kiln cast and blown glass seeing as the fluidity and transparency of the material resembles fabric in its sensuality and seduction.  My castings are more elegant and serious while my blown glass is more whimsical and fun.  The depressed urban landscape around Ohio gives me a subject matter to experiment with different techniques of incorporating image into my work.  I create narratives that speak about lost heritage and icons in our surroundings that are deemed not important any more.  These soft and pallid images signify a memory that is now fading away like the antique buildings that are left abandoned or the relics of family heritage passed down through generations lost to an antique store for me to find.   The process of taking these images and carving into glass by hand is a metaphor for all of the “hand-made” industries that have been discarded to machines. My cast glass propeller talks about myself pushing forward in my career as an artist at a fast pace.  The doily pattern on the surface gives a feminine quality to a seemingly masculine object.  I have been thinking a lot about gender as it relates to objects and how it interplays with the mechanical work that I do in my job as a professor technician. Sometimes my mechanical side disguises my soft feminine side but I let them both show through in my work.

Biography
Nadine Saylor has been blowing glass for twelve years and worked with many different masters in glassblowing. She went to the University of the Arts for Photography in the mid nineties where she studied the human form creating shapes with the light and shadow reflected on the fleshy body. During her graduate Studies at Alfred University, she began casting glass as well as working in mixed media sculpture. Her sculptures address feminine concerns and are bold yet delicate at the same time. Her work deals with recollections from childhood and objects of memory.  She recently has been making glass oilcans, hairbrushes and doilies that have different patterns incorporated in them. “My “Pink Leopard Print Oil Can” talks about the fashionability of our economy and denotes that the oil industry was once popular in Ohio and since has faded away.” Her cast doilies provide a surface to display these objects and make us wonder where these handmade objects have disappeared to in our culture as they were once passed down through generations of familial heritage.

Resume
Education
2005- 2007         Alfred University, School of Art - Master of Fine Art – Sculpture Dimensional Studies - Glass Area.
2002        Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA - Attended Workshop with Hiroshi Yamano,“Glass “Silver Foil Applications”.
2000    Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME – Attended Workshop with Dick Marquis and Ruth King.
1999        Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC - Awarded Scholarship to Attended Workshop with Pamina Traylor.
1999        Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL - Attended Workshop with Pino Signoretto, “Solidworking and Sculpting”.    
1998        Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME - Attended Workshop with Dimitri Michaelides.
1998        Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL - Attended Workshop with Fritz Dreisbach.
1997        Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL - Attended Workshop with Ruth King “Blown Sculpture”.
1997        ‘The Studio’ at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY - Attended Workshop with Katherine Gray.
1993 -1996        The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA - BFA in Visual Arts /Photography.
1989 -1992        Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA - Associates Degree in Photography.

Professional Experience
2009        Featured Artist,    Tacoma Museum of Glass,  Tacoma, WA
2008    Artist in Residence, Sculpture Space, Utica NY
    Instructor, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, Glassblowing and Casting.
    Team teaching with co instructor Eddie Bernard, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2007 – 2008    Adjunct Faculty, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2007    Artist in Residence Assistant to John Buck, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
    Team teaching with co instructor Eddie Bernard, Pittsburgh Glass Center – “Glass Sculpture”
2006        Teacher for summer glassblowing workshop, ‘The Studio’ at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY
    TA for Pamina Traylor and Eddie Bernard, ‘The Studio’ at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY
2005 - 2007        Teaching Assistantship, Alfred University for Glass Casting and Glassblowing, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2005        Summer Staff, Cold Shop Technician, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2003 – 2005    Teacher for introductory and intermediate glassblowing, Public Glass, San Francisco, CA
2000 – 2005        Teacher for introductory glassblowing, Bay Area Glass Institute, San Jose, CA
1999 – 2005    Full-Time Sculpture Assistant, Paul DeSomma and Marsha Blaker DeSomma, Santa Cruz, CA
2002 – 2003    Summer Staff, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2002    Freelance Assistant in Fine Art, Sculpture, James Nowak Inc., Seattle, WA
2001 – 2003    Visiting Artist, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
    Assistant Teacher for glassblowing first and second year, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1998        Teacher for high school and adult glassblowing students The Crefeld School, Philadelphia, PA
1997 – 1998        Teacher for intermediate glassblowing, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL
    Artist-In-Residence, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL

Selected Exhibitions
2009        Friends of Fire Nation, Parkwood Gallery, Toledo, OH.        
2008        Hot Glass Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art Auction, Toledo, OH.       
    Instructor Exhibition, Penland School Art Gallery, Penland, NC
    National Juried Show Lancaster County Art Association, Lancaster, NY.
2007    Alfred on 25th, Florence Lynch Gallery, Masters of Fine Arts Group, Show, New York, NY
    Southern Tier Biennial, Cattaraugus Council for the Arts, Awarded Juror’s Special Merit, Olean, NY
    Masters of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY.
2005    Beyond Tradition: Techniques in Contemporary Glass Art, San Francisco Airport Museum, San Francisco, CA.
    Figurative Glass Exhibition, Masaoka Glass Design, Carmel Valley, CA.
    Group Show, Santa Cruz County Building, Santa Cruz, CA.
2004        Santa Cruz Glass Association, Michaelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
    From Photography to Glass, L. H. Selman Ltd ‘The Glass Gallery’, Santa Cruz, CA.
2003        Art and Place, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA.                
    Bay Area Glass – Group Show, Triton Art Museum, San Jose, CA.
2002        Altas Longas Veta Brevis, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA.
    California Glass Exchange, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
1998    47th Annual All Florida Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL.

Awards and Honors
2008    Awarded “Strategic Opportunity Stipend” for work at Sculpture Space in New York.
    Artists in the Community Grant - “Conversations and
    Collaborations” - Installed at Central School, Almond NY.
2005    Graduate Teaching Assistantship - Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
2002    Nominated for Corning Award for Outstanding Student - Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA.
1999    Harvey and Bess Littleton Scholarship – Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
1997    Scholarship - ‘The Studio’ at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY.

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