Wednesday, February 12 @ 5:00 – 6:15pm
Elvehjem L160
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Amy Lemaire is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Lemaire works with glass, photography and digital fabrication to create an array of tools, images, objects and situations that reconsider relationships between humans and the natural world.
Residencies include the Paul J Stankard Flameworking Fellowship at Wheaton Arts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, University of the Arts, Tyler School of Art, UrbanGlass and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Lemaire was awarded the inaugural Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft in 2023, and an award for Academic Excellence from Salem Community College in 2024 for teaching.
Her essay, “Flame Grows Up” was published in Glass Quarterly magazine in the Summer 2018 issue. She delivered a commissioned lecture, “Flameworking in the Context of Contemporary Art” at the 2018 International Flameworking Conference at Salem Community College, and was the Keynote speaker at the 2022 International Society of Glass Bedmakers conference. She presented a new lecture, “Seeds of Change”, at the Mahnaz Collection in NYC in 2023.
Lemaire’s work “Pollen Flow ” won the Acquisition Prize at Mad About Jewelry 2021. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Harvard University (MA), the Delaware Contemporary (DE), Heller Gallery (NY), Traver Gallery (WA), Helena Anrather (NY) and SARAHCROWN (NY). Lemaire’s work has been acquired for the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design (NY) and the Ringling Museum (FL).
In addition to her solo work, Lemaire often works with a long-time collaborator, sculptor Nicolas Touron, whose works combine 3D printed porcelain with borosilicate glass.
Her work is represented by SARAHCROWN gallery and the Mahnaz Collection, both in NYC.
Lemaire studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA) and Pratt Institute (MFA). She is a self-taught glassmaker, experienced in fabricating large scale glass objects for researchers, engineers, designers and artists.
She has taught at institutions nationally, including the Penland School of Crafts (NC), Pilchuck Glass School (WA), & UrbanGlass (NY) and worked with over a dozen Universities including Harvard (MA), Alfred (NY), RIT (NY), NYU (NY), University of Montana-Dillon, College for Creative Studies (MI), Bowling Green State University (OH) & Tyler University (PA) as a visiting artist, lecturer or critic.
She currently teaches at Salem Community College (NJ) in the Scientific Glass Technology program. Lemaire is a co-facilitator of the Flame Affinity Group, through the Glass Education Exchange (GEEX.glass). She is a member of the American Society of Scientific Glassblowers. amylemaire.com