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

Jon Clark
Lizard Green
Glass, stone
2000 10.25 x 13.5 x 5.5

Jon Clark (born 1947; resides, Elkins Park, PA)

After earning a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in River Falls in 1970, Jon Clark traveled to England and earned his M.A. from the Royal College of Art in London. Clark is currently Professor and Chair of the Arts Department at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Clark has served as Visiting Faculty at Pilchuck Glass School, and as a member of the Board of Directors of The Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, NJ, and the Glass Art Society. He has twice received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts. Jon Clark has routinely enjoyed one-man shows at Snyderman Gallery in Philadelphia. In 2000, he was included in Millennium Glass: An International Survey of Studio Glass at the Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY. He has also exhibited in dozens of other show including World Glass Now, held in 1988 at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, in Sapporo, Japan; and Contemporary American and European Glass – The Saxe Collection, which traveling coast-to-coast from The American Craft Museum in New York to The Oakland Museum in California. Clark’s work is contained in various permanent collections including the Corning Museum of Glass, and his alma mater, the Royal College of Art, London, England. Clark draws upon figurative elements and landscape to create highly personal, metaphorical work.

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