American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement
May 15 - August 24, 2003

Hank Murta Adams
Stray Cat
Glass, copper, hydrastone
2002 23 x 11 x 11

Hank Murta Adams (born 1956; resides Troy, NY)

Hank Murta Adams was a student of Dale Chihuly at the Rhode Island School of Design. He graduated from RISD with a B.F.A. in painting in 1978. He continued his education at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and Pilchuck Glass School in Washington. Hank Adams subsequently worked as an artist, and as an educator at schools and universities ranging from the Toledo Museum School to UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY. Adams has been awarded three Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been featured in numerous one-man exhibitions ranging from J&L Lobmeyr Glass in Vienna, Austria in 1984, to Remnant: Hank Adams, at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, in 2001. Adams’ work was selected for Creativity and Collaboration: Pilchuck Glass School at 30 in Seattle, WA, in 2000. Other group shows range from the triennial traveling exhibition, Americans in Glass, to World Glass Now, held in 1988 at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan. Adams’ work was recently published in a 2002 article entitled, The Collection of Sara and David Lieberman in American Craft Magazine. Adams’ imagery comprises iconoclastic busts in expressive designs.

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