1984 Wind Challenge Artist
Mark has made art for 40+ years, primarily working with cast glass. His main inspirations lie in minimalism, architecture, object sentimentality, and folk art.
Glass in combination with wood, metal, and other mixed media are a constant in his work. He is fascinated by the combination of crystalline and rough sand surfaces, the ability of glass to be both transparent and a solid, the tactility conveyed in material texture. For the last several years, he has taken to kiln-worked, etched, and printed glass processes used in combination with other materials which he designs and creates in his studio in Bucks County, PA.
Mark has been an instructor at Tyler School of Art and taught workshops at Sheridan, Tulane, Mass Art, Alfred, Pilchuck, and Hands-on-Glass. He was an Artist-in-Education with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for several years, and is currently a high school art teacher and the district supervisor of the art department at Springfield Township School District in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Glass in combination with wood, metal, and other mixed media are a constant in his work. He is fascinated by the combination of crystalline and rough sand surfaces, the ability of glass to be both transparent and a solid, the tactility conveyed in material texture. For the last several years, he has taken to kiln-worked, etched, and printed glass processes used in combination with other materials which he designs and creates in his studio in Bucks County, PA.
Mark has been an instructor at Tyler School of Art and taught workshops at Sheridan, Tulane, Mass Art, Alfred, Pilchuck, and Hands-on-Glass. He was an Artist-in-Education with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for several years, and is currently a high school art teacher and the district supervisor of the art department at Springfield Township School District in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
