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Education:
Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Glass Art at The School of American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 2007
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California, 2003
Board of Directors and Residencies:
2012-’18 President, Board of Directors, international Glass Art Society (GAS) (‘15-’17)
2015 GAS conference Co-Chair, San Jose, CA
2008 Bullseye Glass Company, Artist in Residence, Portland, OR
2004 Water Street Glassworks, Artist in Residence- Benton Harbor, MI
Awards:
2012 Jurors Choice Award, Benefit Auction, Bay Area Glass Institute, San Jose, CA
2011 Dorothy and George Saxe Fellowship Award, Bay Area Glass Institute, San Jose, CA
2010 Emerge “Kiln Casters Award”, Bullseye Gallery. Portland, OR
2008 “Exhibition First Place Award”, Cabrillo Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2007 “Alumni Scholarship Award”, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
“Library Purchase Prize”, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
2003 "Emerging Student Artist," California Glass Exchange, CA
Publications and Publicized Interviews:
Playing With Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement. Oakland Museum of California exhibition catalogue, 2012
In The Make interview http://inthemake.com/cassandra-straubing/ 2012
New Glass Review 32, Corning Museum of Glass, 2011
The Urban Glass Quarterly, Art: Design: Culture, Number 121, Winter 2010-11
Emerge Bullseye Glass Company exhibition catalogue, 2010
Bay Area Glass Institute auction catalogue, 2009, 2011, 2012
Comcast South Bay Focus: Art Glass, CA, aired September 20, 2008
PBS: Open Studio artist interview, IN, aired December 30th, 2004
Public Lectures and Discussions:
2013 Panel discussion: Artist talk on curent body of work, Oakland Museum of Art, CA
Glass blowing Space Cadet performance, Bay Area Glass Institute, CA
2012 Panel discussion: University Glass Program Educators, California Glass Exchange conference, CA
Mold making demonstration, California Glass Exchange conference, CA.
2011 Bullseye Glass Company, Santa Fe, NM.
Palo Alto High School Sculpture Department, Palo Alto, CA
2009 Panel discussion on glass casting, BECON, Bullseye Glass Conference, Portland, OR
2008 Santa Monica College, CA
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA
Solo Exhibitions:
2015 A Fragile Narrative, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2014 Poetic Ghost Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Remedies- MFA Thesis gallery exhibit and installation, Rochester, NY
2004 Entrapment- Gallery exhibition and installation, The Gallery of Water Street Glassworks, Benton Harbor, MI
2002 In Suspension- Gallery exhibit and installation, Dexter Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2018. Evolve, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 The Creative Process, Habitat Gallery, Detroit, MI
2014 SOFA, Habitat Galleries, Chicago, IL
Translating Reality, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
International, Habitat Gallery, Detroit, MI
2013 SOFA, Bullseye Galleries, Chicago, IL
Chroma Culture, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR
eXpose, Habitat Gallery, Detroit, MI
SOFA Chicago, IL
2012 Playing With Fire: Artists of the Studio Glass Movement, Oakland Museum of California Art, CA
This Fragile Skin, Emeryville Bullseye Gallery, CA
SJSU Faculty Exhibition, Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, San Jose, CA
2011 GlassWeekend 2011, Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Arts, NJ
SOFA Santa Fe, NM
2010 Domesticity; How We Live, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
Fragile Strength, Two Person Art Exhibition, Cabrillo Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Emerge 2010 Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 SJSU Faculty Exhibition, Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, San Jose, CA
Bullseye Residency Emerging Artist Exhibition, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 The Unbreakables- A Glass and Ceramics Exhibition, Cabrillo Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2007 Hot Glass In The Bluegrass, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Roles, Rights, and Rituals, Pen and Brush, New York, NY
Glass Art Society International Student Exhibition, Pittsburg, PA
2006 Glass Art Society International Student Exhibition, St. Luis, MO
Habitat for Humanity Glass Exhibition, Gallery R, Rochester, NY
2005 [Si] [Fe] [Cu] A Dialogue of Elements, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Teaching Experience:
2018 Glass Faculty Head and Area Coordinator- Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Glass Sculpture,
Casting, and Blowing Department of Art and Art History at San Jose State University, CA. 2007-current
2016 Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Instructor- Material Samples for Mold Making workshop, ME
2012 Bay Area Glass Institute, Instructor- Investment Mold Casting workshop, San Jose CA
2010 California Educators Conference, Instructor- Imagery on Fused Glass workshop, San Jose, CA
2009 Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Instructor- Metal Working for Glass Artists workshop, Rochester, NY
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Instructor- Glass Ladle Casting workshop, CA
2007 RIT Instructor- Glass Casting, Mosaic, and Torch work, Rochester, NY 2006-2007
RIT Teaching Assistant to Bette Rogers- Quilting, Rochester, NY 2006-2007
2006 Ox-Bow School of the Arts, Teaching Assistant and Studio Technician for Karen Willembrink-Johnson, Hank Adams, and Jerry Catania for various levels of glass classes, Saugatuck, MI 2003-2006
2005 Teaching Assistant to Jerry Catania for Beginning and Intermediate Glass Blowing and Glass Casting, Water Street Glass
Works, a non-profit glass art school, Benton Harbor, MI 2004-2005
Organizations and Memberships:
GAS member 2005-current
SJSU Glass Guild faculty advisor 2007-current
BAGI non-profit glass organization 2007-current
Apprenticeships and Studio Experience:
2009 Glass Art Society conference Board Assistant NY, KY, WA 2009-2011
2007 Robin Cass, artist assistant, RIT, Rochester, NY. 2006-2007
2004 Glass Studio Technician, Water Street Glassworks, Benton Harbor, MI 2004-2005
2003 Designed, fabricated and installed professional glass equipment including one 350-pound crucible glass furnace, two glory holes,
three annealing ovens, and miscellaneous studio equipment for Water Street Glass Works, a non-profit glass art school, Benton
Harbor, MI
2003 Glass Studio Technician, Oxbow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI 2003-2006