The Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass opened Friday, March 6^th to showcase talented young area artists and celebrate national Youth Art Month.

The museum offered schools an opportunity to bring students to the museum to work in The Glass Studio with artists, Sara Rezin, Beth Wenger Johnstone, and Taylor Moeller-Roy.  Over the past several weeks, students from Appleton East, Berlin, Kimberly, Menasha, Neenah, New London, Oshkosh North, Renaissance School for the Arts, St. Mary Catholic, and Valley New School worked on their submissions. Many students created beads in the glass studio using flame working techniques, while others experimented with fused glass methods. The majority of the works exhibited were created during these workshops. Additional artwork created at the schools will also be on display during the exhibit which runs March 6 – April 5, 2020.

A public opening and awards ceremony was held Friday, March 6, when the following students received awards of recognition for their outstanding work:

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass Award
Apryl Jacobson
June
Appleton East HS
Chip Noffke, Instructor

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass Award
Jack Kasuboski
What’s Yours Is Mine
Appleton East HS
Chip Noffke, Instructor

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass Award
Divyasree Chintamani
Fall Trees & Autumn Breeze
Appleton North HS
Jessica Zitzelberger, Instructor

North Star Asset Management Award
Lauren Wilorm *
Looking Through
Neenah HS
Emma Santiago, Instructor

North Star Asset Management Award
Madeline Willett *
Elemento Fiore
Oshkosh North HS
Ray Rowe, Instructor

Jack Richeson & Company Art School and Gallery Award
Marco Moralez *
Lost In Space
Menasha HS
Erin Culligan, Instructor

Jack Richeson & Company Art School and Gallery Award
Cecilia Bruce-DeMuri *
Before the Eclipse
Berlin HS
Lori Rademann, Instructor

Jack Richeson & Company Art School and Gallery Award
Gracie Brownlow
Birds of a Feather
Berlin HS
Lori Rademann, Instructor

Oshkosh Fine Art Association Award
Ariane Lichtenberg
2 Face
Menasha HS
Erin Culligan, Instructor

Oshkosh Fine Art Association Award
Mallory Moen
Ya Man
St.Mary Catholic High School
Melissa Sirstins, Instructor

Pictured Above Left to Right
Lori Rademann, Cecilia Bruce-DeMuri, Ray Rowe, Madeline Willett, Emma Santiago, Lauren Wilorm, Marco Morales

Judges this year were Kathryn Dreifuerst, museum board member, Tami Erickson, Neenah Arts Council, Corrine Conrad, Oshkosh Fine Arts Association, and Shannon Piette, Jack Richeson & Co Art School and Gallery.

The museum would like to thank the following exhibition sponsors:  McCormick Foundation, the Ronald and Ruthellyn Musil Family Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Belgioioso, North Star Asset Management, The John E. Julien Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Jack Richeson & Co., Oshkosh Fine Arts Association, as well as season sponsors: Community First Credit Union and Boldt, and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the state of Wisconsin and The National Endowment for the Arts, and media sponsor: Wisconsin Public Radio.

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