Margot Elizabeth Glass
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I
Margot Glass grew up in New York City, and studied at The Art Students' League, Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Fashion Institute of Technology. Her educational and professional immersion decorative arts history and applied textile and decorative design techniques inspired her exploration of the dynamic relationship between stylization and imperfection in representations of nature in the subjects she chooses. Her paintings and drawings primarily focused on themes of ecology and fragile plant systems have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums the United States and internationally, and and her work is in private and public collections including such institutions as the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon, the Weatherspoon Museum, The Del Coronado Corporate Collection, Midwest Museum of American Art, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, The Mark Parker Collection and Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection. Her work has been featured in publications including Orion Magazine, Watercolor Artist, American Art Collector. She works in a variety of media primarily focusing on traditional metalpoint, homemade organic ink, oil and acrylic paint and watercolor. She was the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council STARS Artist Residency and is currently working on a commission project for Arts in Embassies. She is the recipient of an Oak Spring Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellowship in VA and a Lost & Found Lab Artist Residency, CT. She lives and works in Western Massachusetts and has been a visiting lecturer at university galleries such as Smith College in addition to other colleges and museums.