Biography, Experience, Current Projects and Fee Schedules

ARTIST STATEMENT
I work in glass and paint with color and light. Stained glass is an adventurous exciting art made out of a rigid glowing material held together by lead and the flow of my brush.

There is something infinite about this art with colors that change because of the weather and the sky. Since 1981 I have been creating architectural stained glass and permanent kiln fired glass painting, collaborating with professionals in the fields of art and architecture and religion.

It is a great pleasure to design my glass with the architect, and for the people who use the building.

I listen to the unique requirements of each individual commission and have respected deadlines and budgets over the past 20 years.

SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL GLASS PROJECTS
2001 Marian Woods, Hartsdale, NY
2000 South Carolina Aquarium, Charleston, SC
1998 Christ United Methodist Church, Honolulu, HI
1995 Adath Jeshurun Synagogue, Minnetonka, MN
1993 Greater Baltimore Medical Center Hospital, Towson, MD
1996 Collector’s Home, Short Hills, NJ

SELECTED AWARDS
2001 Ministry and Liturgy Award for Christ United Methodist Church.
1997 AIA Religious Art Award of Excellence for Adath Jeshurun Synagogue.

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1998 (Apr–Jul) Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY
1990 Port Washington Public Library, LI, NY
1983,85 Shoreham-Wading River Public Library, LI, NY
1962 Thenen Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000-3 (Dec13-Mar16) American Bible Society New York, NY.
       Testimony of Llight: American Stained Glass and Architecture in the 20th Century
1996-7 (Nov-Feb) The New York Biennial of Glass Exhibit, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
1997 The Glass Art Gallery, London, England
1997 Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
1995 Shinjuko Park Tower Gallery 2, Tokyo
1994 Clay and Glass Gallery, Toronto 1993 Society for Arts and Crafts, Boston
1991 Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY1990 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1989 Centre International du Vitrail, Chartres, France

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2002 Claudia Rowe, "Spiritual Reflections in Bits of Glass" The N Y Times,
       Westchester Edition, Sunday, Jan. 20, sect.14, p.1 and 10.
2001 Richard Gross, "The Glass Landscape in the South Carolina Aquarium:
       An Installation by Ellen Mandelbaum" Stained Glass, Summer, p. 113-16.
2000 "South Carolina Aquarium:Charleston, S.C." Architectural Record, Oct.p.118-25.
2000 "Glass Landscape Commissions" American Craft, vol. 60, no. 5 (Oct./Nov) p. 58.
1999 Judaic Artisans Today, Gaithersburg, MD, Flower Valley Press, p. 82-83.
1997 Andrew Moor, Architectural Glass Art, London, Reed International Books, p.121.
1995 "Synagogue with a View" Stained Glass, Winter, p. 314-16.
1986-2002 The Guild Sourcebook, Madison WI, nos. 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 6, 5, 3, 2, 1.
1991 Who's Who in American Art.

BY ELLEN MANDELBAUM
1988 "Matisse's Legacy in Stained Glass", New Work, no. 32, Winter , p.16-18.
1968 "Isolable Units, Unity and Difficulty", Art Journal, Spr, p. 256-61.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Stained Glass Association of America
AIA, Interfaith Forum on Religious Art & Architecture (IFRAA)

EDUCATION
1983,85 Pilchuck Glass School, WA
1963 MFA (High Honors) in Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1960 AB, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1960 (Phi Beta Kappa)
Seminars with glass artists: Ludwig Schaffrath, Johannes Schreiter,
                                         Jochem Poensgen, Albinus Elskus

TEACHING
1998 Present Occasional Special Workshops at Ellen Mandelbaum's Glass Studio
1963-67 History of Modern Painting; Modes of Expression in Painting,
       Hunter College, New York, NY
1965 History of Architecture, Pace University, New York, NY
1964-66 Docent, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

BACKGROUND
Ellen Mandelbaum Glass Art, business started 1980

For additional information about the artist, please consult www.emglassart.com.