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Beth Hylen Education MS, Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC BA, English, Centre College of Kentucky, Danville, KY Business Courses: Corning Community College, Corning, NY Glass Studio Classes: Lampworking, glassblowing, slumping and fusing, pate de verre, stained glass, and Precious Metal Clay at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Studio Access to Glass, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Horizons, Snow Farms and private instruction. Completed Rio Rewards PMC® Certification Program 2007. Professional Experience Reference Librarian The Rakow
Research Library, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Teacher: “Precious Metal Clay and Glass” The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, March 8-9, 2008; Oct. 27 – 28, 2007. Beginning PMC workshop, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY, Aug. 2006. Teaching Assistant: Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 7/8-20, 2007; 7/6-18/2003; Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005; 2002; Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA, 2001; Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, 1998; The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, 2006, 1996-1997. Selected Exhibitions "Let It Snow" The Palace Theatre, Corning, NY, Nov. 5, 2008-Jan. 4, 2009. "Hot Glass 2008." Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Toledo, OH, Oct. 24-Nov. 14, 2008. "Lakeside-Statewide Juried art Exhibition." Art Association of Oswego, Oswego, NY. March-June, 2008. "Unique Perceptions." Community arts of elmira, elmira, NY. February 28-March 4, 2008.
“Clay & Glass Invitational 2007.” Atrium Gallery, Corning Community College, Corning, NY,
Dec. 7, 2007 – “Holiday Café.” 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY, Nov.-Dec. 2007. "The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes Member Exhibition." George Waters Gallery, Elmira, NY, Oct. 18 - Nov. 3, 2007. http://www.earts.org/index.asp?pageID=38&nid=53 “Hot Glass in the Bluegrass II.” Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY, March 24 - May 13, 2007. “Hot Glass 2006.” One SeaGate Gallery, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 3 – Nov. 3, 2006. Organized by The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo. www.acgt.org “Outside the Box: An Exhibition of Contemporary Arts,” 100 West Market St., Corning, NY, July 20-Aug. 13, 2006. http://www.stls.org/corning/blog/06.07.archive.htm#21a and http://www.stls.org/corning/blog/06.07.archive.htm#19
“Optical/Lyrical: Beth Hylen and Syau-Cheng Lai,” at 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY, Feb.
24 – April 1, 2006. 171 Cedar: www.171cedararts.com ; Lai:
www.syaucheng.com; “First Annual Member Artist Exhibit” featuring work from 16 regional artists. The Gallery @ The ARTS, Corning, NY, Jan. 14 – Feb. 28, 2006. http://www.earts.org/News.asp?ARTICLE4039=20760
“Art Libraries Society of North America, Member’s Exhibition.” Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY, April 15 – July 15, 2004. http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Library/art
“Glass Fashion Show.” Glass Art Society, National Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2004. “’Neck – Glass’ Sculptural Glass / Wearable Art” Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE, March–June, ‘03. “Fashions in Glass," The Corning Museum of Glass Shop, Corning, NY, May 16 - Sept. 2002. "Clay and Glass" Atrium Gallery, Corning Community College, Corning, NY, Dec 14th- Feb 4, 2001. "Fingerlakes Glass Artists," Glassart Gallery and Studio, Watkins Glen, NY, Sept. 7 - Nov. 12, 2001. "Glass Art from the Finger Lakes," Regional Exhibition, Glass Art Society and Whitehouse-Books.com, Market Street, Corning, NY, June 8-22, 2001.
"Glass Fashion Show," Glass Art Society, National Conference, Corning Museum of Glass,
Corning, NY, "Society of Glass Beadmakers Members Exhibition," Gathering VI, Radisson Hotel, Corning, NY, May 7-10, 1998. "Insiders: Works by ARLIS/NA and VRA Members," Art Libraries Society National Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 1998.
"The Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes Member Exhibitions." Recent Auctions
National Liberty Museum, “Glass Now 2007 Auction” October 6, 2007.
James Renwick Alliance, to benefit the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art
Museum,
James Renwick Alliance, to benefit the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Art Libraries Society, Silent Auction, Houston, TX, April 4, 2005. “Arts Mart” Preview Night Benefit, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Dec. 2, 2004 Selected Publications Featured artist: PMC Annual 2: Florence, KY. International PMC Guild, 2008. Full size book featuring highlights of work made in fine silver clay around the world. "Submerged" p 63 500 Necklaces: Contemporary Interpretations of a Timeless Form. New York: Lark Books, 2006. Introduction: Marjorie K. Schick. “Refractile,” p. 210. 500 Glass Objects: a Celebration of Functional & Sculptural Glass. Introduction by Maurine Littleton. New York; Lark Books, 2006, “Branches,” pp. 55; “Frozen Spring,” p. 337. Dounel, Desiree, “Library Exhibition Showcases Art of Librarians.” Knight News - News Issue: 4/27/04. Kohler, Lucartha. Women Working in Glass. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2003, pp. Featured artist, pp. 177, 194-195, p. 4. New Glass Review. Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, 2003. International juried competition. “Insiders: Works by ARLIS/NA and VRA Members. Works from the Exhibition at the ARLIS/NA and VRA Annual Conferences in Philadelphia” March 1998. Art Documentation, vol. 18, no. 1, 1999, pp. 36-37.
Author: Hylen, Beth. "Sketching Frederick Carder," Glass Art Society Journal 2008. Hylen, Beth. "Perfume Bottles: From Design Table to Dressing Table, at The Corning Museum of Glass, Rakow Research Library." Perfume Bottle Quarterly. v 20, no. 2 (Winter 2008), pp 14-15, ill. Hylen, Beth. Research for "Selective Bibliographies" IN: Petrova, Sylva. Czech and Slovak Glass in Exile. Brno: The Moravian Gallery, 2007, pp. [123-139]. Exhibition, 31 Aug. – 6 Jan. 2008. Hylen, Beth and Turner, Brad. "The Solarization of Glass." Fusion, v. 54, no. 2, May 2007, pp. 19-22, ill. (Journal of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society) “Chronology/Bibliography” in Warmus, William. Fire and Form. Palm Beach, FL: Norton Museum of Art, 2003. Website: www.warmus.us “Lampworking” bibliography in: Birkhill, Fred. Art of Flameworking. Corning, NY: Whitehouse-Books.com, 2000. “Glass Basics” bibliography, prepared for the ARLIS/NA panel session “Glass in the Ohio Valley…” National Conference, Pittsburgh, 2000. From Vellum to Video: The Corning Museum of Glass Library, Glass Art Society Journal 1991, part 1, pp. 116-119. “Bibliography,” [20th century Italian glass], Muriel Kurasik Gallery, The Venetians: Modern Glass 1919-1990. William Warmus, Curator. New York: the gallery, 1989, pp. 75-78. “Index” [to New Work, nos. 27-34, 1986-1988]. New Work (New York Experimental Glass Workshop), no. 35, Fall 1988, pp. 40-41. Professional Activities and Awards
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Glass Art Society Lecture, "sketching Frederick Carder," Portland,
Oregon, June 19-21, 2008. - Glass Art Society History Advisory Board, 2008. - Art Libraries society, Panelist, "Shattering Glass Walls: The Corning Museum Breaks Out" Panel "Bye-Bye B.I.: Innovative Approaches to Library Instruction," Denver, Colorado, May 1-5, 2008. Beth Hylen's wprk "Silver Winter" won an Honorable Mention at the Lakeside-Statewide Juried Art Exhibition at the Art Association of Oswego www.oswegoarts.org - Panelist, 2008 International Flameworking Conference, Salem Community College, 2008 http://www.salemcc.edu/glass/flameworking/committee.html --Selection Panel, Artists crossroad Grant, The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes, 2007, 2008 - New York Foundation for the Arts, Strategic Opportunity Stipend award, Nov. 2006 for travel to the Hot Glass 2006 exhibition in Toledo. - Carder Steuben Club, Lecture, “Frederick Carder – the Artist,” Sept. 15, 2006. http://brokenshards.homestead.com/CARDERSTEUBENCLUB.html - American Cut Glass Association, Lecture, “Explore the Rakow Research Library,” July 20, 2006. http://www.cutglass.org/index.html -Selection Panel, Artist Crossroads Grant, The ARTS of the Southern Fingerlakes, 2005. -Mentioned in the Archives of American Art: Interview with Doug & Dale Anderson, Conducted by Tina Oldknow, at the collectors' apartment in New York, NY, July 21 and 22, 2005 http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/andersd05.htm -Art Libraries Society of Western New York Professional Development Award, April 2004. -Nominated as a candidate for the Saxe Award, for outstanding artist assistant or teaching assistant during the 2001 Pilchuck Glass School summer program. -Glass Art Society, National Conference, “Big Bead Bash II” exhibition at the Radisson Hotel, Corning, NY, June 2001 (exhibition coordinator/curator). -Corning Museum of Glass, Annual Seminar on Glass, Lecture “The Rakow Research Library: Past, Present, and Future,” May 2001. (Part two of a three-part lecture) -Glass Art Society, National Conference. Professional Practices Panel, “Library Resources for Glass,” Tucson, AZ, 1997 -The Glass Art Center, Somerville, MA. Board of Trustees (founding member), 1994-1999. -Glass Art Society, National Conference. Fund-raising Committee: “Goblet Grab,” 1994-1996. -Founding Member, Studio Access to Glass, Corning, NY, a non-profit educational glass studio created for public access, 1990-1994. -Art Libraries Society/Western New York. President, 1991; vice-president, 1990. -Glass Art Society. National Conference Organizing Committee; National Conference Speaker, 1991. -Art Libraries Society/Western New York, organized meeting in Corning, Spring 1989. -International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women. Upcoming: - The Corning Museum of Glass Studio, “PMC & Glass” class teacher, March 8-9, 2008 - Panelist, 2008 International Flameworking Conference, Salem Community College, March 28 - March 30, 2008. http://www.salemcc.edu/glass/flameworking/committee.html
- Art Libraries Society, Panelist, “Shattering Glass Walls: The Corning Museum Breaks Out”
Panel “Bye-Bye B.I.: Innovative Approaches to Library Instruction,” Denver, Colorado, May
1-5, 2008
- Glass Art Society, Lecture, “Sketching Frederick Carder,” Portland, Oregon, June 19-21,
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“Cezanne” Holiday Show and Sale, Community Arts of Elmira, 362 Gallery, Elmira, NY, Nov. 16 –