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

Artist Statement
Exploring the inherent properties of glass is the focus for myself using it as an art making material. I search out aspects of transparency, optics and phenomenology in glass as starting points for constructing objects and installations. These associations and the traditional usage of glass in industry and consumer products all combine to form the ideas for my work.


Biography
Robert Geyer is currently a full time faculty member of the Glass program at Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, Alberta. He did his MFA in Glass at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and his BFA in Sculpture at the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, Canada. He is very interested in role of glass as an art making material in the world of contemporary art and has three years of international teaching experience at the Bildwerk academy in Frauenau, Germany.


Resume
Education
2005-2007    M.F.A. Glass, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
2002-2005    B.F.A. (Honors) in Sculpture, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, Canada.

Professional Experience
2007-2012    Faculty, Glass Program, Alberta College of Art and Design. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
2008    ACAD Marion Fund Award recipient for Innovation and Research in Teaching.
2008    Won Design Competition for Alberta College of Art + Design Smart Night. Designed, made and facilitated assistance of team of ACAD Glass Students to make 120 Center Pieces.
2007    Made Blown Glass Props for Watchmen feature Film

Selected Exhibitions
2009    Upcoming Solo Exhibition, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware. April – May, 2009

2008    The Academy Show, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, March 20 – April 19, 2008

2007    Constructions, CAA New York Area MFA Exhibition. Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York City. February 1 – March 26, 2007, Curated by Christian Rattemeyer, Curator of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Crystal Wonderland, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. May 2007
Hot Glass in the Blue Grass II. Loudoun House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky. March 24 – May 13, 2007
Real American Hot Dog 2, the Barber Shop Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

2004    Glass and the Bigger Picture Exhibition, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. June, 2004. Blown Glass
From Hands to Lips Drinking Vessel Exhibition, Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Toronto, Canada. June- August, 2004. Blown Glass

Awards
2009    Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant

2008    Won Design Competition for 2008 Smart Night Center Pieces. Hyatt Ballroom, March 15, 2008
Financial Award from the Marion Fund for Innovation in Teaching and Research to develop Living Glass History Project

2006    Rome Art and Culture Fellowship. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2006-2007    Graduate Academic Tuition Assistantship and Stipend, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA    

2005    British Columbia Arts Council, Senior Award for Visual Art. Victoria, Canada

2003-2004    All Institute Tuition Scholarship Award, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Publication
2007-2008    Tyler School of Art Catalog, Philadelphia, PA.
2006    Glass and Print by Kevin Petrie. p.36. A&C Black Publishers, London

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