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Jacqueline Knight is an Australian artist currently residing in Providence, Rhode Island. She is a glassblower, kilnworker and coldworker working in large-scale contemporary glass sculpture. Just recently, Jacqueline received her MFA from Alfred University, New York State with a full scholarship and stipend and was also awarded an Ian Potter Cultural Grant. There she taught glassblowing at the Alfred University Summer Session, 2008. Jacqueline currently teaches at Diablo Glass School in Boston and The Steel Yard in Providence. She is also teaching a glassblowing class at Pittsburgh Glass Center this summer. Jacqueline has been a TA at Pilchuck Glass School and Corning Museum of Glass and was a student at Pilchuck on a Board of Trustees Scholarship.
For her BFA, Jacqueline graduated in 2002 with first class honors at the Canberra School of Art, Australia and also received the Australian National University Public Art Collection Award. During this time Jacqueline studied at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Japan. She then was one of two Australians to be chosen for the highly competitive Jamfactory Contemporary Craft and Design Center program in Adelaide, Australia 2004 - 2005. In the last 10 years she has worked with and studied with many artists such as Harumi Yukutake, Nick Mount, Katherine Gray and Richard Whiteley. Jacqueline's work can be viewed in New Glass Review, Editions 27 & 29 and the book 500 Glass Objects. Her work is also showing in galleries and collections around Australia, China and the United States.
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