page_title: Ginny Ruffner
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Ginny Ruffner / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Glassware in the Indianapolis Museum of Art
context_page_description: Ginny Ruffner is an American glass artist based in Seattle, Washington. She is known for her use of the flameworking technique. She also started painting on glass after seeing The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, a glass painting by Marcel Duchamp.
context_section_description: Ruffner's first solo exhibition was at Georgia Tech Gallery in Atlanta in 1984, followed by solo and group exhibitions at museums such as the Corning Museum of Glass; High Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Museum of Arts and Design; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Glass; Museum of Northwest Art; and Toledo Museum of Art, among others.
  Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Detroit Institute of Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
  She was profiled on the NPR show Weekend America on March 18, 2006.
  She was the subject of a documentary, Ginny Ruffer: A Not So Still Life (2010), which won the Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival that year.
caption: Stella at the Louvre, 1990
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