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

Ginny Ruffner
Deep Tide
Flameworked, sandblasted, handcolored
1984 18 x 17.5 x 13.5

Ginny Ruffner (born 1952; resides Seattle)

Ginny Ruffner graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia with a B.F.A. in painting and drawing in 1974. One year later, she graduated summa cum laude from her alma mater with an M.F.A. She went on to teach at Pilchuck Glass School and later served on the board at Pilchuck and the Seattle Arts Commission. Ginny Ruffner is a former President of the Glass Art Society; in 2000 she was appointed as an Honorary Lifetime Member. She is the recipient of the first UrbanGlass Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Ruffner has enjoyed solo exhibitions at various galleries including Heller Gallery in New York City, Duane Reed Gallery in Chicago, and Maurine Littleton Gallery in Washington, D.C. The Seattle Art Museum presented a one-woman exhibit of her work and an installation entitled Mind Garden in 2002. Laumeier Sculpture Park Museum, St. Louis, MO exhibited an installation entitled, The Beauty of the Creative Process, in 2001. Groups exhibition range from Form and Fire: The Art of Contemporary Glass, at the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL, in 2003, to Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass. The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in New York City, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland, are just a few museums world-wide which hold Ruffner’s work in their collections. Typical of her early work, that which is included in this exhibition is a delicate, lyrical assemblage of lamp-worked glass rods and tubes sandblasted to create a soft luster, and colored by hand.

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