Beth Lipman

Beth Lipman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1971. She is an only child, and her family primarily lived in York and Lancaster counties in Pennsylvania. Her family moved around a bit before she turned 3 or 4.[2] Her mother was a self-taught painter whose collection of books on folk painting influenced Lipman at an early age. At 16 she attended a summer art camp at the Horizons New England Craft Program.[3]

Lipman attended the Massachusetts College of Art in 1989, then transferred to the Tyler School of Art at Temple University to finish her degree. She graduated from Tyler in 1994 with a BFA in glass and fibers.[4]

Today, Beth Lipman lives and works in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin.[5] Her work is currently represented by Nohra Haime Gallery (NY), Cade Tompkins Projects (RI), and Ferrin Gallery (MA).[5]

While at school, Lipman applied to an apprenticeship at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.[6] After the apprenticeship, she completed a number of residencies at programs including the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, in 2003; the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, in 2006; and The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, in 2006 and 2011.[7]

Lipman originally worked as a solo artist, but in 2003 she began working with a team to create large-scale works such as "Bancketje (Banquet)," which was created as part of a residency at WheatonArts, Millville, NJ, and is now part of the collection at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C..[8]

Material Culture by Beth Lipman at the Corning Museum of Glass

In addition to working as an artist, Lipman has held a number of positions. She served as the education director for UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY from 1997 until 2000.[6] During that time, she was also the head of the glass department at the Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA (2002-2004) and the studio director of education and artist services at the Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts (2004-2005). From 2005 until 2009, she was the arts/industry coordinator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Lipman has taught at many schools, including New York University, New York, NY; Parsons School of Design, New York, NY; the Corning Museum of Glass; Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC; and the Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA.[9]

Lipman's work is represented in a number of museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI); the Corning Museum of Glass (NY); the Museum of Art and Design (NY); the Museum of American Glass (NJ); the Norton Museum of Art (FL); the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (MO); the Hunter Museum of Art (TN); the Chrysler Museum of Art (VA); the New Britain Museum of American Art (CT); the Weisman Art Museum (MN); the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA; the Milwaukee Art Museum; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, among others.[7]

She has won numerous awards and honors, including induction into the American Craft Council's College of Fellows (2018),[10] the Virginia Groot Foundational Grant (2014),[5] Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2013), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2012), the United States Artists Berman Bloch Fellow (2011), the UrbanGlass Young Talent Award (2006), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (2005), the Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant (2001), the Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Grant (2001).[9]

According to Lipman, her work explores several themes, including materiality, mortality, temporality, consumerism, and critical issues that stem from the still life tradition in the 17th century.[11]

• Adeline's Portal, at Moses Myers House of the Chrysler Museum of Art (permanent collection), Virginia, 2013. Components: glass, wood, paint, and adhesive.[12]
• Aspects of (American) Life, at The New Britain Museum of American Art (permanent collection), 2014. Components: glass and adhesive. Response to: Thomas Hart Benton's The Art of Life in America. [13]
• Crib and Cradle, at the John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Florida, 2014. Components: glass and adhesive.[14]
• Distill #2, #3, #4, #8, #13, #16, #22; at John Michael Kohler Arts Center and Kohler Co.; 2015. Components: cast iron with rust patina (#2, #4, #16), brass (#3), brass with plating (#22), cast iron/rust/chrome (##8, #13).[15]
• Ephemera, 2013. Pieces to collection: Laid Table with Melons, Figs, Squash, Pomegranates, and Pineapple (at Tory Folliard Gallery); Candlesticks; Puddle and Coins.[16]
• InEarth, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, 2017. Components: wood, glass, metal, paint, and adhesive.[17]
• Sideboard with Blue China, at John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (permanent collection), 2013. Components: wood, glass, adhesive, and paint.[18]
• Secretary with Chipmunk, at Milwaukee Art Museum, 2015. Components: wood, glass, adhesive, ash, gold, brass, mirror, sugar, and salt.[19]
• Overcome, 2016. Components: glass, wood, paint, and adhesive.[20]
• Tropical Landscape Remembered, 2014. Components: glass, wood, metal, adhesive, and paint.[21]
• Double Laid Table, 2016. Components: glass, wood, paint, and adhesive.[21]
• Cut Table, at the Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, 2014. Components: glass, wood, paint and adhesive.[21]
• Laid Table with Etrog Container and Pastry Molds, at the Jewish Museum, New York, 2012. Components: glass, stone, and glue.[22]
• One and Others, at the Norton Museum of Art, Florida, 2011. Components: glass, wood, paint, and adhesive.[22]

• Frantz, Susanne; Milosch, Jane (January 2007). From the ground up: Renwick Craft Invitational 2007. Smithsonian American Art Museum. pp. 30–43. ISBN 9780979067815. OCLC 76836049.
• Ellen J, Keiter; Neil, Watson; Tina, Oldknow. Shattering glass: new perspectives : November 11, 2007-February 24, 2008, Katonah Museum of Art. Katonah Museum of Art. pp. 20–21. ISBN 9780915171736. OCLC 220418975.
• Beth, Lipman; Judith, Tannenbaum. After you're gone: an installation by Beth Lipman [exhibition] August 22, 2008-January 18, 2009. The Museum. OCLC 263172178.
• Page, Andrew (Spring 2010). "Mortality, Frozen: The Still Lives of Beth Lipman". Glass (118): 22–27. ISSN 1064-900X. OCLC 38880279.
• Klenell, Ingalena, Andrea Moody, Beth Lipman, Melissa G. Post, and Anders Stephanson. (2010). Glimmering Gone: Ingalena Klenell & Beth Lipman. Tacoma, Wash: Museum of Glass. ISBN 9780295990804.
• Clowes, Jody. (2010). "Beth Lipmam: Banquet Years." American Craft (70)4: 36-45.
• "Beth Lipman." American Craft (62)2 (2002): 85.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Beth Lipman.

• Lipman's website
• "Biography: Beth Lipman". Corning Museum of Glass. Corning Museum of Glass. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
• Video overview of Precarious Possessions installation at Ringling Museum of Art