Anna Mlasowsky
Anna Mlasowsky (born 1984) is a German artist. She is known for her experimental and boundary pushing work in glass and is recognized as one of the leading female artist working in glass today. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Art and Design New York, the European Museum for Contemporary Glass, the Museum of Northwest Art, the Bellevue Arts Museum, the Glass Factory Museum in Boda, Sweden, the Tacoma Museum of Glass, USA and the Stockholm Architecture Museum in Sweden. Her work has been featured in American Craft, the Shanghai Museum of Glass Magazine, PBS  Discovery Channel Canada, and Half Cut Tea. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass (USA) the Toyama Glass Art Museum (Japan), the Castello Sforzesco in Milan (Italy), the Museum of American Glass (USA) the Glasmuseum Ebeltoft(Denmark) the European Museum of Modern Glass (Germany) and the Seto City Art Museum (Japan) . Biography. Mlasowsky grew up in East Germany and first encountered glass makers in 2005, while traveling in northern Norway during her Euopean Volunteer Service there. She saw glass makers working in a small village on the Lofoten Islands and the following year she  enrolled to study glass at Engelsholm Højskole in Denmark. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Glass, in 2011.She has worked as an independent artist, educator and curator since. In 2016 she completed a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the University of Washington. She currently lives and works in Seattle, WA, USA. Anna received an Artist Trust Fellowship in 2017, was one of the Emerging Voices in Craft Shortlist Award recipients and was awarded an Emerging Artist residency at Centrum Foundation. In 2018 she received the Aldo Bellini Award , the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence and was a Museum of Art and Design Burk Prize finalist. In 2021–2022, Mlasowsky is a Haas Short Term Fellow and Artist in residence at the Science History Institute, studying the history of rare earths. used in Glass today, the socio-ecologic impact of their extraction, and the way they enable a globalized society. Awards. 2021         Silver Prize, Toyama International Glass Prize, Japan 2019           Chihuly Emerging Artist Award, Seattle, USA                   Windgate Award, Suny Purchase College of Art, New York, USA 2018           Aldo Bellini Prize, Castello Sforzesco, Milano, Italy                   Finalist: Burke Prize, Museum  of Art and Design, NY                   „BAM“, Biennial John and Joyce Price- Award of Excellence, Bellevue Arts Museum, USA 2017           Jurors Choice Award, Annual International Irvin Borowksy Prize in Glass, USA                   Finalist: Emerging Voices in Craft Awards, American Craft Council, USA 2015           Punch Gallery Award, Members Choice Award, USA 2014           Page Hazelgrove Annual Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA         TAG Grant, Award for Advancement of Technology in Contemporary Glass, USA         Silver Award Winner: Emerge Competition, Bullseye, USA         Otto Waldrich Prize, Coburg Glass Prize, Germany 2013           UK Glass Prize, 1. Preis, England 2011           Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Projekt Award, Denmark                   Finalist: Stanislav Libenski Award , Tschechien                   Finalist: European Advancement Award for young Glass, Stadtmuseum Zwiesel, Germany  2010         Kaleidos Award, Upsala, Schweden Grants. 2021           Haas Short Term Research Fellowship, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, USA Artworks Archive, Accelerator Grant, USA                   Awesome Foundation Grant, for “Das Schaufenster“, USA 2020           COVID-19 Relief Grants: The Artist Fellowship, Seattle Artist Relief Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Art, 4Culture Artist Relief, Artist Relief Project                 SmArt Venture Grant, Office Of Arts and Culture, Seattle, USA 2019           4Culture, Project Grant, Seattle, USA                   Scholarship Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, USA 2017           Artist Trust Fellowship, USA 2016           Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center Residency, USA 2015           Scholarship, Glass Art  Society, USA Scholarship, Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists, USA 2013           IASPIS Grant, Swedish Ministry for Arts and Culture, Sweden 2012           Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass school, USA                   Artist Grant, Alexander Tutsek Stiftung, Germany 2011           Penland school of Craft: Isaac & Sonia Luski Scholarship, USA 2010           Danske Nationalbankens Jubilaeumsfond af 1968, Denmark 2009           Augustinus Fonden, Denmark                   Student scholarship University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland 2008           Scholarship Pilchuck Glass School, USA                   Scholarship, The Corning Museum of Glass scholarship, USA                   Artist Grant, Ingenör Vald. Selmer Trane og hustru Elisa Tranes Fond, Denmark                   Artist Grant, Krista & Viggo Petersens Fond, Denmark Residencies. 2022           Tacoma Museum of  Glass, Glass Studio Residency Program 2021           Haas Short-Term Fellow and Artist-in-Residence at the Science History Institute, USA                   Visiting Artist residency Tyler School of Art, Glass Department, USA                   Innovators in Glass Residency, Pilchuck Glass School, USA   2020         Artist in Residence, Urban Glass, NY University and Pratt Institut New York, USA 2019           Windgate Artist in Residency, Suny Purchase College of Art, New York, USA 2018           Sculpture Space Residency, USA                   Visiting Artist, University of Hawaii Manoa, Oahu, USA 2017           Emerging Artist Residency Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, USA                   Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnston, USA 2016           Corning Incorporated Specialty Glass Residency, Corning , USA 2014           Bullseye Resource Center Bay Area Artist in Residence, Emeryville, USA 2013           Artist in Residence, Pittsburgh Glass Center, PA, USA                   Artist in Residence, The Glass Factory Museum, Boda, Sweden The Corning Museum of Glass Studio Residency, Corning, USA AA2A residency Program, National Glasscenter, University of Sunderland, UK 2012           International Ceramic and Glass Art Exchange Program, Seto, Japan 2011           Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, CGCA residency Fellowship, NJ, USA                   Toyama City Institute of Glass Art residency, Toyama, Japan Selected Public Lectures ans Performances. 2021           Lecture: “Anders-artig-keit”, Konstfack University of Arts & Design, Sweden                   Lecture: “Enabeling Transparency” für das Symposium  “Craft Ways-Tending through Craft” Center for Craft and the Warren Wilson College, USA 2019           Host of the Paneldiscussion: Suny Purchase College of Art, NY, USA, on issues faced by female immigrant artists in the US (invited speakers: Sera Boeno, Roxana Fabius, Katya Grokhovsky, Yulia Topchiy) 2018           Lecture: “Behind the Glass“, Corning Museum of Glass, NY, USA                   Live-Performance: Bellevue Arts Museum, USA, “Chorus of One”, collaboration with Alethea Alexander and Alexandra Bradshaw-Yerby (University of Washington Dance Department)                   Lecture: American Craft Council Salon Series, Minnesota, USA 2017           Lecture: “Technology Advancing Glass”, Glass Art Society, Norfolk, USA 2016           Paneldiscussion: “Technology  in Art” Panel, Atoms and Bytes Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum,USA                   Live-Performance: “Straight Line Thinking”, University of Washington, USA 2015           Paneldiscussion: „kilnforming and new developments“ Bullseye Projects, Portland USA                   Live-Performance: of "△▽" with Ellen Jing Xu, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, USA                   Live-Performance: “Lineage”, Per4m4rum, University of Washington, USA 2014           Lecture: „Page Hazelgrove Lecture“, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA 2012           Lecture: „Emerging Artist Lecture“, Glass Art Society, Toledo, USA 2012           Lecture: Program-Seto City Art Museum, Seto, Japan