| HELEN LEE |
helenylee at gmail dot com | 857.928.0540 | |
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| EDUCATION |
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| 2006 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI MFA in Glass, GPA 3.85/4.0 (honors) |
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| 2000 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA BSAD in Architectural Design, Humanities Concentration in Writing; GPA 4.9/5.0
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| NON-DEGREE EDUCATION |
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| 2008 | The Crucible, Oakland, CA Introduction to Neon with Christian Schiess and Norman Moore |
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| 2007 | Bay Area Glass Institute, San Jose, CA 2-Day Glassblowing Workshop with Boyd Sugiki and Lisa Zerkowitz |
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| 1996- 2004 |
The MIT Glass Lab, Cambridge, MA Advanced Glassblowing Classes with Chris Taylor and Peter Houk. Intermediate and Beginning Glassblowing Classes with Peter Houk, Brendon Edwards, Dan Spitzer, Saro Stanley, and Page Hazlegrove |
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| 2001 | Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Intermediate Blown Glass Design with Nick Mount |
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| 2000 | The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Skills, Discipline, and Expression with Ben Edols and Kathy Elliot |
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| 1999 | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME Beginning Glassblowing with Kait Rhoads
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| TEACHING + ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE |
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| 2008 | Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Teaching Assistant for Chris Taylor's Making a Hard Thing Harder Class |
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| 2007- 2008 |
California College of Art, Oakland, CA Lecturer: Sculpture 1 |
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| 2007- 2008 |
Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA Glassblower-in-Residence |
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| 2007 | Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Teaching Assistant for Joe Cariati and Ken Rinaldo’s Mind Meets Matter Class |
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| 2007 | Public Glass, San Francisco, CA Glassblowing Instructor: Beginning Italian Techniques |
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| 2004- 2006 |
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Teaching Assistant for the Glass Department |
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| 2000- 2006 |
MIT Glass Lab, Cambridge, MA Technical Instructor: Beginning and Intermediate Level Glassblowing Classes |
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| 2006 | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME Teaching Assistant for Peter Houk's Playing Around with the Graal Idea Class |
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| 2005 | Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Teaching Assistant for Peter Houk’s Imagery and the Blown Form Class |
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| 2005 | Black Lotus Yoga Project, Cambridge, MA Teaching Assistant for Dave Emerson's Yoga for Women wiith Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Classes |
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| 2002- 2004 |
Simple Syrup Glass Studio, Brockton, MA Glassblowing Instructor: Beginner and Intermediate Level Classes and Workshops |
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| 1999 | Snow Farm, Sunderland, MA Teaching Assistant for Peter Houk's Glassblowing Workshop
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| EMPLOYMENT |
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| 2002- 2008 |
Freelance Graphic Designer, Cambridge, MA + Oakland, CA Print and Web Design |
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| 2007 | Elephant Pharm, Berkeley, CA Graphic Designer |
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| 2002- 2004 |
Simple Syrup Glass Studio, Brockton, MA Production Glassblowing Assistant to Emily Abbott, Dave Naito, Amy Rueffert, Brian Corr, Rob Lewis and Whitney Cornforth |
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| 2002 | Martha's Vineyard Glassworks, Martha's Vineyard, MA Production Glassblowing Assistant to Mark Weiner, Keith Bump and Kurt Arsenault |
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| 2000- 2002 |
Weymouth Design, Boston, MA Junior Graphic Designer on Bob Kellerman's print team with Kerry LaCoste and Chris Korbey |
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| 1997- 2000 |
MIT Department of Architecture, Cambridge, MA Wood and Metal Shop Monitor for Chris Dewart
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2008 | Vitreous Typography, Public Glass, San Francisco, CA |
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| 2006 | Anechoic, Providence Art Club, Providence, CA
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2008 | RISD's One Night Stand, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| 2008 | RISD Northern California Alumni Biennial, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA |
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| 2008 | Juried Annual 2008: Selections by Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator, New Museum ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA |
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| 2007 | 100 Years of Artists Teaching Artists, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, Oakland, CA |
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| 2006 | Glass ’06, Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI |
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| 2006 | RISD Glass Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI |
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| 2006 | Plugged-In, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI |
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| 2006 | Disappearances: RISD Glass MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Peerless LOFTS Gallery, Providence, RI |
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| 2006 | Annual Graduate Student Exhibition, RISD Museum, Providence, RI |
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| 2005 | RISD Glass MFA Thesis Exhibition, Old American Broadloom Gallery, Central Falls, RI |
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| 2004 | RISD Graduate Glass Exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
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| LECTURES |
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| 2008 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA |
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| 2008 | Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
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| 2007 | Visiting Artist Lecture, California College of Art, Oakland, CA |
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| 2006 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Bristol Community College, Bristol, MA
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| HONORS |
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| 2006 | RISD Graduate Award of Excellence in Fine Arts, Providence, RI |
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| 2006 | E.P. Anderson Scholarship Award, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI |
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| 2001 | Pilchuck-MIT Partner Scholarship, Stanwood, WA and Cambridge, MA |
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| 2000 | Peter J. Eloranta Fellow, MIT, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1998- 2000 |
Arts Scholar, MIT, Cambridge, MA | ||
| 1999 | The List Foundation Fellowship for Students of Color, MIT, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1999 | Council for the Arts Grant, MIT, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1996- 1999 |
Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes, MIT, Cambridge, MA The Robert A. Boit Writing Prize (x2) and The Ellen King Prize |
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| 1996 | Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Foundation, Waterloo Village, Stanhope, New Jersey Student reader at the 1996 Dodge Festival |
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| 1996 | National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Honorable Mention, Creative Writing
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| SKILLS |
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| Materials: Glass, wood, metal, model-making, and letterpress printing |
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| Software: InDesign, Quark XPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Final Cut Pro, some Flash |
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| Language: First-generation, Chinese-American Mandarin, and six years of Spanish in NJ Public Schools |
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