| Statement | |
| "In my work and my life, I like to have a harmony, a yin-yang, a balance between the right brain and the left brain. For me, it's important to be both a good crafts person and an artist. I delight in the technical aspects of glass. One minute it works, the next it falls on the floor and breaks, or it comes out of the kiln in pieces. So it's like being on the edge of the medium, and I like that aspect a lot. However, I have a large enough technical grasp that I'm free to express what I want to do with the material, especially with the new technique I developed with crushed glass. I lay down the glass, like doing a sand painting, and then fuse it together. This process allows me to blend color and to be more spontaneous. Drawing with the crushed glass also has permitted me to work more freely, especially in my bowls. I just sit down and make them for sheer joy." ~ Quoted from Out of the Fire, Bonnie Miller, 1991 |
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| Education | |
| Selected Shows | |
| 2003 | Sixth Annual Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, MUSEO, Langley, Washington |
| 2002 | Fifth Annual Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, MUSEO, Langley, Washington |
| 2001 | Fourth Annual Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, MUSEO, Langley, Washington |
| 1997 | "Calido" Contemporary Warm Glass, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona |
| 1996 | Academy of Arts Glass Exhibition, Easton, Maryland |
| 1995 | Sea/Tac Airport "Masters of Glass Exhibit", Sea/Tac, Washington |
| SOFA Miami & SOFA Chicago Exhibition (Marx Gallery), Miami & Chicago | |
| American Craftsman Vessels, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York | |
| Marx Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | |
| 1994 | Gallery Mack, Seattle, Washington |
| Habatat Galleries, International Glass Invitational, Boca Raton, Florida | |
| Craft Alliance, "Contemporary Glass," St. Louis, Missouri | |
| Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia | |
| 1993 | Vespermann Glass Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia |
| Habatat Galleries, Twelfth International Glass Invitational, Boca Raton, Florida | |
| Tarble Arts Center, "Material Vision," Charleston, Illinois | |
| Vertu Gallery, "Glass Act II," Cincinnati, Ohio | |
| 1992 | Marx Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| Contemporary Crafts Gallery, "Kilnformed Glass," Portland, Oregon | |
| "The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 92," Kanazawa, Japan | |
| Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada | |
| Peyton Wright Gallery, "American Glass," Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
| 1991 | The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Sea/Tac International Airport, "Pilchuck Glass," Sea/Tac, Washington | |
| Bellevue Art Museum, "The Frozen Moment," Bellevue, Washington | |
| Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo & Yokohama, Japan | |
| William Traver Gallery, "Out of The Fire," Seattle, Washington | |
| 1990 | Gallery Mack, Seattle, Washington |
| Vespermann Glass Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia | |
| "The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 90," Kanazawa, Japan | |
| Craft Alliance, "National Glass Invitational," St. Louis, Missouri | |
| 1989 | Art Options, Santa Monica, California |
| The Glass Art Gallery, "Tenth Anniversary Exhibition," Toronto, Canada | |
| Contemporary Crafts Gallery, "Contemporary Glass 89," Portland, Oregon | |
| 1988 | The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Robert Kidd Gallery, "National Invitation," Birmingham, Michigan | |
| Contemporary Crafts Gallery, "Invitational," Portland, Oregon | |
| Kerns Art Center, "NW Glass," Eugene, Oregon | |
| 1987 | The Glass Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| Japan Glass Artcrafts Association, "Glass 87 in Japan," Tokyo, Japan | |
| New Bedford Glass Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts | |
| Signature Gallery, "Glass From The West," Boston, Massachusetts | |
| 1986 | The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Huntington Museum of Art, "New American Glass Focus," Huntington, West Virginia | |
| Washington State Capitol Museum, "1985 Pilchuck Faculty," Olympia, Washington | |
| Washington Square, Public Art Trust, "Art & Function," Washington, DC | |
| Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado | |
| 1985 | Gallery Mack, Seattle, Washington |
| Edith Gottschalk, SM Gallerie, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Musee de Rouen, France | |
| Musee des Beaux-Arts, France | |
| Kulturmuset, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Washington State Capitol Museum, "Governor Invitational," Olympia,Washington | |
| 1984 | The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin |
| "Americans in Glass," (European Tour 1984 - 1986 ) | |
| Heller Gallery, "Glass America," New York, New York | |
| Traver Sutton Gallery, "Pilchuck Glass," Seattle, Washington | |
| 1983 | Bellevue Art Museum, "NW Crafts Regional," Bellevue, Washington |
| A.S.A. Gallery, "Warm Glass," Albuquerque, New Mexico | |
| Bicentennial Pavilion, "Museum Art Night," Tacoma, Washington | |
| Awards | |
| Publications | |
| 1998 | The Art of Stained Glass: Designs from 21 Top Glass Artists, Chris Peterson, Rockport Publishers, Inc., Gloucester, MA |
| 1992 | Contemporary Kilnformed Glass, Bullseye Glass Co., Portland, OR |
| 1991 | Out of the Fire, Bonnie Miller, Chronicle Press, San Francisco, CA |
| 1990 | Professional Stained Glass, March, Chris Peterson, Brewster, NY |
| 1989 | Contemporary Glass, Susanne Franz, Abrams Publications, New York |
| 1989 | Glass: A Contemporary Art, Dan Klein, Rizzoli Publications, New York |
| 1989 | Glass Work Magazine, Portfolio, October, No. 3, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1989 | American Craft Magazine, Portfolio, Feb/March, New York, New York |
| 1988 | New Glass Review, #9, Corning Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 1984 | New Glass Review, #5, Corning Museum, Corning, New York |
