Rebecca Arday

Rebecca Arday’s work interweaves art, science, and history. Utilizing glass and other amorphous, ephemeral materials, she explores (im)permanence and (in)stability in relation to the personal and societal. Often working in miniature scale, her pieces distill gigantic notions into intimate, animate, uncanny things.

She holds an MFA from the Department of Art at The Ohio State University (2021) and BFA in glass from the School for American Crafts at the Rochester Institute of Technology (2008). Her work has been included in exhibitions across the United States and internationally including the Burchfield Penney Art Center, SUNY Buffalo State University (Buffalo, New York, USA), The Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, Delaware, USA), The National Art Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft / Glas - Museet for Glaskunst (Ebeltoft, Denmark), the National Glass Centre (Sunderland, United Kingdom), Geppart Gallery (Wroclaw, Poland), Giant Mountains Museum (Jelenia Góra, Poland), The Glass Factory (Boda Glasbruck, Sweden), Tianyuan Glass Museum (Tianyuan, China), Glazenhuis (Lommel, Belgium), and S12 Galleri og Verksted (Bergen, Norway). Also an educator, she has taught workshops at Pilchuck Glass School (USA) and Penland School of Crafts (USA), and online with Glass School (UK). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Glass in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies and the Director of the National Casting Center Glass Studios at Alfred University in Alfred, NY.