Ann Morhauser | |
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Born | 1957 (age 66–67)
Camden, New Jersey, U.S. |
Alma mater | California College of the Arts |
Known for | Handmade glass art |
Website |
annieglass |
Ann Morhauser (also known as Annie Morhauser, born 1957) [1] is an American glass artist based in California. She is the founder of Annieglass, a glassware, tableware and glass sculpture company. [2] [3] Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [1] [4] In 2022, she was recognized as the Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year.
Morhauser was born in Camden, New Jersey. [1] Raised in Collingswood, New Jersey, She attended Paul VI High School. [5] She studied glassmaking and graduated from California College of the Arts in 1979. [6]
After graduation, Morhauser started her career making and selling glass plates at craft fairs and museum shops. Later, she worked in a glass gallery in California. [7]
Morhauser started Annieglass, a glassware, tableware and glass sculpture company in 1983 in Santa Cruz, California, and then moved her headquarters to Watsonville in 1996. [6] She hand-crafts her pieces [8] and utilizes a technique called slumped glass to mold the pieces. She applies gold, color, or platinum to glass and fires it in a ceramic kiln over a ceramic mold. The heat and gravity make the precious metals or color fuse to the glass as well as making the glass slump into the mold. [4] She has received a patent and FDA approval for this technique. She also has a technique to fuse recycled glass together and shape it with a waterjet, for which she has applied for a patent. [7] [9] [10]
Some of her pieces have also displayed at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York [11] [12]
Morhauser’s artworks are a part of the Luce Foundation Collection of American Craft, an exhibit assembled for the study of American folk artists and contemporary craft, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [7]
In 2022, Morhauser was recognized as the Artist of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Arts Commission. [13]
Ann Morhauser | |
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Born | 1957 (age 66–67)
Camden, New Jersey, U.S. |
Alma mater | California College of the Arts |
Known for | Handmade glass art |
Website |
annieglass |
Ann Morhauser (also known as Annie Morhauser, born 1957) [1] is an American glass artist based in California. She is the founder of Annieglass, a glassware, tableware and glass sculpture company. [2] [3] Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [1] [4] In 2022, she was recognized as the Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year.
Morhauser was born in Camden, New Jersey. [1] Raised in Collingswood, New Jersey, She attended Paul VI High School. [5] She studied glassmaking and graduated from California College of the Arts in 1979. [6]
After graduation, Morhauser started her career making and selling glass plates at craft fairs and museum shops. Later, she worked in a glass gallery in California. [7]
Morhauser started Annieglass, a glassware, tableware and glass sculpture company in 1983 in Santa Cruz, California, and then moved her headquarters to Watsonville in 1996. [6] She hand-crafts her pieces [8] and utilizes a technique called slumped glass to mold the pieces. She applies gold, color, or platinum to glass and fires it in a ceramic kiln over a ceramic mold. The heat and gravity make the precious metals or color fuse to the glass as well as making the glass slump into the mold. [4] She has received a patent and FDA approval for this technique. She also has a technique to fuse recycled glass together and shape it with a waterjet, for which she has applied for a patent. [7] [9] [10]
Some of her pieces have also displayed at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York [11] [12]
Morhauser’s artworks are a part of the Luce Foundation Collection of American Craft, an exhibit assembled for the study of American folk artists and contemporary craft, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [7]
In 2022, Morhauser was recognized as the Artist of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Arts Commission. [13]