Marshall Hyde is a curator and mixed media artist working primarily with glass since 1990. He earned an MFA in glass and sculpture from Southern Illinois University in 1995 and works in a variety of glass processes. He has more than ten years' experience working in museums, serving on the board of directors of the Illinois Association of Museums and was an AAM peer grant reviewer.
Marshall has been a teaching assistant at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Pilchuck Glass School, and was twice nominated for the Saxe Award at Pilchuck.
Since 2003 Marshall has worked with British glass artist Jaqueline Cooley on several large-scale public art projects in the UK.
He has exhibited and sold his work at the London Luau, the HukiLau, and every Tiki Oasis since 2004.
Marshall was a co-chair of the 39th Glass Art Society conference in Corning, New York in 2009.
He lives and works in Corning with his wife, glass artist and educator Caitlin Hyde.
Presentation with Jaqueline Cooley at BECon 2009, Portland
ARTIST STATEMENT
I make stuff. Mostly glass. And it better make me laugh.
Or thrill me.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
1995 MFA Sculpture/ Glass; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
1982 Atelier 17, Paris, France, printmaking studies with Stanley W. Hayter
1978 BFA Printmaking, Painting, Sculpture; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Recent Professional Experience
2000- now Self-employed artist and curator
2009 Co-Presenter, with Jaqueline Cooley, "How to Cast Glass Across the World", BECon, Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, OR
2009 Co-chair, 39th Glass Art Society Conference, Corning, New York
2009 Co-organizer of Same Difference exhibition, featuring contemporary glassmakers from Stourbridge and Frauenau, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, New York
2009 Co-Presenter, with Caitlin Hyde, International Flameworkers Conference, Salem Community College, Carneys Point, NJ
2008 Tiki, Fire & Ice 2300˚, glassmaking demonstration, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
2007 Flameworkers’ Forum, residency at Bullseye Glass Co., Portland, OR
2005 Organized and curated The Exquisite Corpse in Glass: Figurative Flameworkers Play a Surrealist Game, an invitational exhibition, Castellani Art
Museum, Niagara University, Niagara, NY
2004 Flameworking demonstration, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Publications & Media
2009 A Conversation with Milon Townsend: Caitlin & Marshall Hyde, Milon Townsend, cover story of The Glass Bead, A Quarterly Publication of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers,Vol XVI, Issue2
2009 The Penland Book of Glass, Ray Hemachandra, ed., Lark Books, 2009
2006 Flamework 2006: Part I Conversations with Seven Artists: A Collective Consciousness, Debbie Tarsitano, Glass Art, Vol 20, No 3
2005 The Exquisite Corpse in Glass: Figurative Flameworkers Play a Surrealist Game, exhibition catalogue, Castellani Art Museum