Michael Glancy
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University of Denver
The University of Denver is currently ranked 82nd among all public and private "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report in the 2012 rankings....
in 1973 and a second BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...
in 1977. He earned an MFA in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...
in 1980, where he studied with Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.-Biography:Chihuly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington. He enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959...
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Glancy is a member of the adjunct faculty in the Jewelry & Metalsmithing Dept. at the Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...
. He has also been an invited faculty member at the Pilchuck Glass School
Pilchuck Glass School
Founded in 1971 by Dale Chihuly, Anne Gould Hauberg and John H. Hauberg , Pilchuck Glass School is an international center for glass art education. The name "Pilchuck" comes from the local Native American language and translates to "red river"...
in Stanwood, WA.
In 2003 Glancy was included in the exhibition"Fire and Form," curated by William Warmus for the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. In the book accompanying the show, Warmus wrote: "Michael Glancy magnifies nature in order to reveal its underlying structure...the flat glass panels that form sculptural bases for his artworks...unfold into and inspire the vessels that sit astride them."
His work was recently acquired for the exhibit One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
in New York City, on display December 22, 2006-September 3, 2007. Glancy's glass and metal sculpture can be found in museum, public and private collections, worldwide.
Glancy has worked for close to 15 years with Providence Based glass artist Myles Baer. Baer has assisted with cold working techniques including engraving and sandblasting of both the glass vessels and their base plates.
Glancy lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two sons, is an avid sailor, and races a wooden Beetle Cat
Beetle Cat
A Beetle Cat is a catboat first built in 1920 in New Bedford, Massachusetts by members of the Beetle family. Over 4,000 have been built. Beetle, Inc., now in Wareham, Massachusetts, is the sole builder of Beetle Cat boats....
sailboat out of the Edgewood Yacht Club
Edgewood Yacht Club
Edgewood Yacht Club is an historic yacht club in Cranston, Rhode Island at 3 Shaw Avenue.The club was constructed by Murphy, Hindle & Wright in 1908 in a shingle style...
in Edgewood, RI.