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PAUL CUNNINGHAM

Professional Experience

2002-Present Owner/Operator, Cunningham Glass, Seattle, Washington
1990-Present Glassblower, Benjamin Moore Inc., Seattle, Washington
1987-1997 Glassblower, Chihuly Inc., Seattle, Washington
1985-Present Glassblower, Assistant to Benjamin Moore, Richard Royal, Danny Perkins, Lino Tagliapietra, Dan Dailey, Dante Marioni, Fritz Dreisbach, and Dick Marquis.
1994-1997 Gaffer, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington
1990 Glassblower, SKLO Studio, Tokyo, Japan
1988 Glassblower, Chihuly Team, Niijima Glass Art Center, Niijima, Japan
1987 Glassblower, Rhode Island School of Design Workshop, Rhode Island


Teaching Experience

2005 Shapes for Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2004 Exploring the Vessel, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1999 Exploring the Vessel, Urban Glass, New York, New York
1998 Introduction to Glassblowing, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood Washington
1997 Fall Workshop, Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Toyama City, Japan
1996 9th Niijima International Glass Art Festival Workshop, Niijima, Japan

Glassblowing Workshop, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1994 The Glass Festival Workshop, Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Toyama City, Japan

Introduction to Glassblowing, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
1993 Goblet Workshop with Lino Tagliapietra, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, Washington
1992, 1993 Advanced Glassblowing with Lino Tagliapietra & Dante Marioni, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts


Exhibitions

2001 Lino Tagliapietra e Amici, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts

Group Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Sante Fe, New Mexico
2000 Group Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Group Show, Gallery Dorita, Atlanta, Georgia
1995-2000 The Pilchuck Exhibition, Sea Tac International Airport, Seattle-Tacoma, Washington
1999 Featured Artist, Riley Hawk Gallery, Kirkland, Washington

Master Crafts at Gumps, GUMPS, San Francisco, California
1998 Venezia Aperto Vetro, International New Glass, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy

25 Years of International Influence, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1997 The Society of Arts and Crafts Centennial Education Exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts

The New Glass Act at Gumps, GUMPS, San Francisco, California

Young Glass 1997, International Competition, Finalist, The Glas Museum , Ebeltoft, Denmark

Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1996 Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington

Coinware at Portia, Portia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

A New Generation, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1995 Glas Gallerie, Stockholm, Sweden

Hall's, Kansas City, Kansas
1994 Visions of the Northwest, Pismo Gallery, Denver, Colorado

Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue, Washington
1993 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1992 American Craft Museum, New York City, New York
1991 A Goblet Show II, Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, DC


Publications

2000 Pasatiempo, The Sante Fe New Mexican, "Exhibit Features National Glass Artists", May 5, 2000
1997 Seattle Times, "Glass Exhibition is a Mixed Bag" by Robin Updike, December.

New Glass Review 17: The Corning Museum of Glass: Art & Objects.

Young Glass, C. Sahl-Madesn, S. Blach, Ebeltoft, pp. 132-133.
1996 American Craft Magazine, American Craft Gallery, p. 71, June/July 1996.

Glass Magazine, Volume 64, G. Wichert, "A New Generation..." p.53.

Neues Glas/New Glass Review 2, p. 82.