$ 2,500.00
17.25″h x 21.25″w x 2.25″d
Unique wall hanging. Vitrolite & enamels in aluminum frame.
For more than 50 years, Henry Halem has been exhibiting and promoting the beauty and mystery of glass as a medium. Halem has been a pioneer in American glass – casting it, hanging it on walls and creating new works that have helped expand the vocabulary of glass as abstract, cutting-edge and also a political medium.
Born in the Bronx in 1938, Halem graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in ceramics. He studied and received his MFA in ceramics George Washington University in 1968, Halem did post-graduate work in glass at the University of Wisconsin with Harvey Littleton. It was there he became part of the newly emerging American studio glass movement and one of its leaders in bringing it to American colleges and studios.
Henry came to Ohio in 1969 to begin the Glass program as part of Kent State’s growing Art Department. Henry brought glass artists from around the world to his Kent classroom and Blossom programs until his retirement in 1998. That same year, President Carol Cartwright presented the President’s Medal to Halem, citing his creative accomplishments, excellence in teaching, and service to both the University and glass community.
