Glass

Jen Bervin’s multidisciplinary work results from poetic and conceptual investigations of material, and research and collaboration with artists and specialists ranging from material scientists to literary scholars. Her collaborative works activate the intersections of art and scholarship; text and textiles; reading, writing and listening; as well as those of culture, craft and technology.

Bervin’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Artisterium, Tbilisi; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; The Power Plant, Toronto, and in the US at Des Moines Art Center, Harvard Natural History Museum, Walker Art Center and MASS MoCA. She has published 10 books including Silk Poems, Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems with Marta Werner and Nets. She has earned numerous awards, fellowships and grants from SETI Institute (2016-19), Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University (2018), Foundation for Contemporary Art (2017), The Rauschenberg Residency (2016), Asian Cultural Council (2016), Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artist Program (2016), Bogliasco Foundation (2014) and Creative Capital (2013).

Fall 2018 Courses

• GLASS-431G-01 Graduate Glass I Studio
• GLASS-433G-01 Graduate Glass III Studio

Wintersession 2019 Courses

• GLASS-8900-02 ISP Major

Spring 2019 Courses

• GLASS-434G-01 Graduate Degree Project
• GLASS-432G-01 Graduate Glass II Studio
• GRAD-178G-01 Textual Practices Seminar
• FA-178G-01 Textual Practices Seminar