The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, in conjunction with the 2024 NCECA Conference to be held in Richmond, VA, is proud to present STEVEN GLASS, A RETROSPECTIVE: TURNING POINTS IN CLAY/ A LIFE IN ART.  

Organized by The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, this exhibition celebrating more than 40 years of Steven Glass’s work highlights his creative approach to the art of functional ceramics.

Internationally recognized, Steven Glass has been the resident potter at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts School since 1982. He has studied with various important ceramic artists including Jack Earl and Tom Kerrigan at Virginia Commonwealth University and with Nino Caruso in Rome, Italy. He has also been the Artist-in-Residence at the Rufford Craft Centre in Nottinghamshire, England, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and part of an exchange program with Ewha University in Seoul, Korea. He has lectured internationally, most recently with solo exhibitions in Seol, Korea and London, England. His work and essays have appeared in numerous journals including Ceramics: Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, and La Ceramique Moderne.

Featuring over 45 works spanning over four decades, the exhibition is curated by Howard Risatti, recipient of NCECA Regional Award of Excellence (2020) and Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council of Fellows (2022).

“A genuine craft object is a physical embodiment of the maker’s artistic self

It is also a vessel preserving a moment of time from the maker’s worldly experience

The more beautiful the vessel the more profound this moment

Event after the maker passes, this moment remains something precious to ponder and cherish”

– Howard Risatti