Cassandra Straubing’s sculptural work addresses issues of domestic, agricultural, and industrial labor using multiple mediums and processes including glass and metal fabrication. She employs a wide range of glass-forming techniques including casting, blowing, hot forming, and non- traditional glass processes to create her artwork.
Straubing is currently the Glass Faculty Head and Studio Coordinator at San Jose State University in California. She received her MFA in Glass in 2007 from Rochester Institute of Technology, and received her BFA in Studio Art from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2002. She served on the Board of Directors for the international Glass Art Society for six years, acting as President from 2015-2017. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including shows in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Portland. Recent publications include Corning Museum of Glass New Glass Review 32, The Urban Glass Art Quarterly Winter 2010-11, and Playing With Fire exhibition catalogue- Oakland Museum of Art 2012.
