Blown Away by Glass | Katherine Gray | TEDxUCSD

In Blown Away by Glass, artist and professor Katherine Gray recounts her inauspicious beginnings as an artist and educator. After receiving an unexpected and exciting opportunity, her career changed overnight. Through sharing her journey and experiences, she illustrates that one should never remain content that they’ve reached the peak of their career as they can never fully know their own potential.
Credits:
Director and editor: Chandler Evans
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Music: Te'Amir
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Video courtesy of Craft Contemporary.
Slide 1: Left to Right Clockwise: Roger Schreiber, Victor Bracke, Roger Schreiber, Roger Schreiber.
Slide 2: Left to Right Clockwise: Courtesy of the Chrysler Museum of Art; Fredrik Nilsen; Andrew K. Thompson
Slide 3: Russel Johnson
Slide 4: Courtesy of marblemedia Katherine Gray is a glass artist and art professor at California State University, San Bernardino. Gray creates functional art, including vases, chandeliers, candelabras, as well as works that "defy functionality." She makes use of transparency in her work and has based a lot of her work around the “polarities” in glass: both literally and metaphorically.
She received her undergraduate degree at the Ontario College of Art and her Master of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design. Her works are in the renowned Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, and the Tacoma Museum of Glass. Her works have also been exhibited internationally. Gray recently appeared as a resident evaluator on the Netflix show, Blown Away. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@billyscenic5610]

She's an amazing teacher. I love that the show is judged by an actual educator.

[@DanicaCidosa]

I didn't know anything about glassblowing before the show, so I'm super glad it exists because it is fascinant and glass is such a great art format.

[@reevesmom]

I took many glass classes in the 1990s and 2000s, and Kathy was the best instructor I ever had. Very glad for her success!

[@billyscenic5610]

You're so lucky.

[@alexangeles3611]

sorry, what award did she get in 2017?

[@billyscenic5610]

Fellow Canadian Scott Thompson saved the last gloryhole in Kids in the Hall.