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Helen Lee is an artist, designer, and educator who explores language and diasporic identity through the materiality of glass. 

 
Professor, UW-Madison Glass Lab
Director, GEEX
2024 United States Artist Fellow



Recent Exhibitions

Imperial Colors, Chrysler Museum of Art

Guiding Ethos, Trout Museum of Art

Archives in Practice, Center for Craft

Wisconsin Triennial 2025, MMOCA



Presentations

Working Range—Revitalized: Rematriating Ruth Tamura’s Legacy, 64th Annual Seminar on Glass, Corning Museum of Glass,  October 20–21, 2026


 

Publications

Working Range—Revitalized: Rematriating Ruth Tamura’s Legacy, Tough Stuff: Women in the American Glass Studio, Corning Museum of Glass

Invisibility, A Lexicon for Design, Carnegie Museum of Art 

Smoulder, New Glass Review 45

Breaking Bubbles, Ruth Arts



Portfolio

On hiatus, but here’s a pdf in the meantime.