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

Michael Meilahn
GMO Series “Field of Dreams” IV
Painted, burnished wood, blown and fabricated glass
2001 66 x 100 x 4

Michael Meilahn (born 1945; resides Pickett, WI)

Michael Meilahn earned his B.S. in Art in 1971 from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, where Doug Johnson, who had earned his M.F.A. from UW-Madison under Harvey Littleton, established a glass training program. Meilahn earned an M.S. in art from Illinois State University in Normal in 1974. Meilahn has operated a glass studio in Wisconsin since 1972. Though he has taught glass at various locations including Penland in North Carolina, and the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, Meilahn has focused his career on glass production and working on the farm he owns and operates in Pickett, Wisconsin. Meilahn has exhibited regularly at Edgewood Orchard Galleries in Door County since 1980. In 1982, Meilahn and his wife, Jane, co-curated The Wisconsin Movement – Glass In Form, at The Allen Priebe Gallery at the Oshkosh campus of the University of Wisconsin. Meilahn has consistently been included in important glass collections, exhibitions, and publications such as New Glass Review, published by the Corning Museum of Glass. Public collections containing his work range from the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, WI, to McDonald Corporation in Chicago. Meilahn frequently expresses his concern for the impact of genetic engineering on the food chain through his art.

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