Dan Clayman Lecture: Fragile Materiality

Join us for an evening with world-renowned glass artist Dan Clayman.

While an idea might drive the choice of a medium, materiality revolves around the physical properties and characteristics of materials used in creating the artwork. Dan will open his lecture with a brief history of the Contemporary Glass Movement and the subsequent expansion of glass in art and architecture. This historical section will be followed by a look into the artist’s work and process explorations from four decades of studio projects. The talk will conclude with the artist’s comments on the future of how glass will continue to evolve in so many realms of our lives.

Dan Clayman has been working with glass as his primary medium for over 40 years. His work reveals his interests in engineering, the behavior of light, and how the memory of experience acts as an impetus to his studio explorations. Working large and small, he employs technology from the simplest hand tool to the latest three-dimensional modeling and production tools.

An artist/educator, Daniel was the Effron Family Endowed Chair at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia from 2018 - 2021. He has been a visiting critic at the Rhode Island School of Design and Artist in Residence at Tyler School of Art and Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has lectured worldwide. He is the recipient of numerous grants and has just completed a permanent installation in Toledo for the Federal Arts in Architecture program. His work is included in over 30 public collections.

This special event is made possible by the generous support of Paul Wissmach Glass Company, a family-owned business that has been handcrafting high-quality, colorful glass in Paden City, West Virginia, since 1904.

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