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Mitch LaPlante, Sculptor
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About the Artist
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Mitch LaPlante Résumé Sculpture is a relatively
new passion. I have worked as a Sociologist for over twenty years, doing
research to help improve the participation of people with disabilities in
society. Several years ago, I had the urge to create with my hands. I had been
following the studio glass movement for some time, and then I found Public
Glass, a school and facility in San Francisco, where I blew my first bubble in
1998 and have never looked back. EDUCATION 2004 Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts (Instructor: Dante Marioni) 2002
Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts (Instructors: Josiah McElheny and Jan Erik Ritzman) 2001
Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts (Instructor: Brian Pike) 2000 Pilchuck
Glass School (auction production team volunteer, aka “pole turner”) 1999
Pilchuck
Glass School (Instructor: Debora Czeresko) 1998-2005 Public
Glass, San Francisco 1985
Ph.D.
in Sociology, Stanford University 1978
B.A.
in Sociology, Cornell University PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005
Instructor,
Public Glass “Making large blown and assembled work” 5 week class 2003-5 Secretary,
Board of Directors, Public Glass 1985-pres. Associate Professor
of Sociology, University of California, San Francisco AWARDS
2004
Outstanding
Contribution to the Exhibition, Valley Sculpture Artists Annual Exhibition (one
of three top prizes) MUSEUMS Harvest Grape Cluster, COPIA Museum,
Napa, California. Permanent collection. MUSEM SHOWS
2005-6 San
Francisco Airport Museums, Beyond Function: Techniques in Contemporary Glass
Arts, curated by Tim Taylor, July
2005-January 2006 2005
Copia
Museum, Napa CA, Botanica, curated
by Liz Lopez and Neil Harvey, August 26-September 20 SOLO SHOWS
2001
Micaela
Gallery, San Francisco GROUP SHOWS
2005
Montclair
Gallery, Oakland, CA. Annual Glass Show, curated by Susan Tuttle and Janet Thompson, December 10-January 15.
Clark
Gallery, Lincoln, MA, Annual Salon Show, curated by Pamela Clark, November 29-December 23.
1212
Gallery, Burlingame, CA, Hot Shop,
curated by Mary Ellen Durka, November 10-December 25.
Public
Glass, San Francisco, CA, Not so Clear, curated by Therese Francia Martin, ArtSpan, September 17-October 7.
Pilchuck
Auction, Seattle, WA. Pilchuck on Display, October 20-21.
Pacific
Rim Sculptors Group, San Francisco, CA, Summer Members Show, Obediant Nature , curated by Jo Ann Northrup, Senior Curator, San
Jose Museum of Art, July 28-September 23
Cambridge
Art Association, Cambridge, MA, 8th Annual National Prize Show, juried by Joseph Thompson, Director,
Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art, May 3-June 23
Thatcher
Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Carpe Lumen, curated by Christian Scheiss (a neon plasma
cherry sculpture in collaboration with Ed Kirshner), March 7-April 24.
Virginia
Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Show for Aisian tsunami relief (February 1-3) 2004
San Diego Art Institute
47th Annual International Exhibition, Peter Gordon juror.
Sacramento
Fine Arts Center, Valley Sculpture Artists Annual Exhibition, PeterVandenberge,
juror 2003
Public
Glass, San Francisco
Virginia
Breier Gallery, San Francisco 1999
In
Sight Gallery, San Francisco INSTALLATIONS
1999
Pilchuck
Glass School, Stanwood Washington PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Glass Alliance of Northern California
(GLANC) Glass Art Society International Sculpture Center Pacific Rim Sculptors Group (PSRG) Valley Sculpture Artists GALLERY REPRESENTATION Art-Scape, Walnut Creek, CA (www.art-scapegallery.com) Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA (www.clarkgallery.com) CODA Gallery, Palm Desert, CA; Park
City, Utah; SOHO, New York (www.codagallery.com) Glass Gallery, Napa, CA (www.ggallery.net) Phillips Fine Art Galleries, San Jose
and Carmel, CA (www.phillipsgalleries.com) Public Glass, San Francisco (www.publicglass.org) Saori Russell Fine Art, San Francisco
(www.srfineart.com) Virginia Breier Gallery, San
Francisco (www.vbreier.com) CONTACT INFORMATION 415-676-8234; email: mitchlaplante@earthlink.net;
web images: http://www.mitchlaplante.com |
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