CV - Erika Tada

Calicuram Vitae

Education

Doctor of Philosophy: Tokyo University of the Arts. Tokyo, Japan.
Master of Fine Arts: School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY.
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Best Honors: Joshibi University of Art and Design. Kanagawa, Japan.

Non-degree Studies

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2016
2012
2009
2009
2006
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2002
1998

Pilchuck Glass School: studied with Laura Donefer and Jeff Mack.
Corning Museum of Glass: studied with Mel Douglas.
Pilchuck Glass School: studied with David Salvadore.
Corning Museum of Glass: studied with Gianni Toso.
Corning Museum of Glass: studied with Margaret Neher.
Pittsburgh Glass Center: studied with Kazumi Ikemoto.
Corning Museum of Glass: studied with Denise Stillwaggon Leone.
Penland School of Crafts: studied with Charlie Correll.
Corning Museum of Glass: studied with Kimiake, Shinichi Higuchi.
Pilchuck Glass School: studied with Seth Randall.
Bild-Werk Frauenau: studied with Stephen Paul Day.

Professional Experiences

Joshibi University of Art and Design
  2024-Present   Faculty. Undergraduate Glass Courses. Kilnwork Class.
  Tamagawa University
2023-Present Faculty. Undergraduate Glass Courses. Hotwork and Kilnwork Classes.
  Musashino Art University
  2022-Present Special Lecturer. Undergraduate Glass Course. Kilnwork Classes.
  Tokyo University of the Arts
2016-2022 Faculty. Undergraduate and Graduate Glass Courses. Hotwork and Kilnwork Classes.
  Corning Museum of Glass
2022 Instructor. Kiln Casting Class.
  2019                 Instructor. Kiln Casting and Engraving Class.
2016                Instructor. Kiln Casting Class.
2006                Teaching Assistant for Ingalena Klenell. Kiln Working Class.
  Toride City Fujishiro School
  2019-20 Lecturer. Art Classes.
  Ball State University
  2019                 Instructor. Kiln Casting Class.
Penland School of Craft
  2017                 Instructor. Kiln Casting Class.
Bullseye Glass Company
2016                 Instructor. Kiln Casting Classes. Bay Area, CA
                           Instructor. Kiln Casting Classes. Portland, OR
Toyama City Institute of Glass Art
2013-15            Research Assistant. Kiln Working Studies, Advanced Research Studies, Artist in Residence Program.
Pilchuck Glass School
2015                 Instructor. Kiln Casting Class.
2014                 Teaching Assistant for Silvia Levenson. Kiln Casting Class.
2012                 Teaching Assistant for Ivana Sramkova. Kiln Casting Class.
　　　 Teaching Assistant for Alicia Lomne. Pâte de Verre Class.
2009                Teaching Assistant for Alena Matejkova. Kiln Casting Class.
Pittsburgh Glass Center
2013                 Instructor. Kiln Casting Class.
Rochester Institute of Technology
2008-2009      Adjunct Professor and Resident Artist. Undergraduate Glass Courses and Glass Elective Classes.
2007                Instructor. Pâte de Verre Workshop.
2005                Instructor. Coldworking, College and Careers Class.
Craft Alliance
2008                Instructor. Pâte de Verre Class.
Jacksonville University
2006                Adjunct Professor. Accelerated Degree Program. Kilnwork Class.
Talisman Glass Studio
  2001                 Instructor. Pâte de Verre Class.
Tokyo Glass Art Institute
1998-2001        Teaching Assistant. Glassblowing, Casting, Fusing, Slumping, Coldworking, Enameling and Neon.
2000-2001       Teaching Assistant for Visiting Professor Tom Kreager. Post Graduate Class.

Selected Exhibitions

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Syukiten, Takashimaya Department. Tokyo, Japan.
Japan Glass Art Triennale 2024. Daikanyama Hillside Terrace. Tokyo, Japan.
Solo Show, Scene of Dandelions, Takashimaya Department. Tokyo, Japan.
Expression of Glass, Takashimaya Department. Kanagawa, Japan.
Solo Show: Blowing in the Wind, Hana Asagi, Tokyo, Japan.
Glass Art in Suitcase Exhibition, Ikkou's Gallery. Tokyo, Japan.
The Bricks NYC Holiday Art Show, The Blue Gallery. New York, NY.
Shape of Glass. Mitsukoshi Department. Tokyo, Japan.
Ripples of Glass. Odakyu Department. Tokyo, Japan.
The First Japan & China Contemporary Glass Exhibition. Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Glass in Japan. Daikanyama Hillside Terrace. Tokyo, Japan.
Material Complex. Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts. Tokyo, Japan.
Shape of Glass, Mitsukoshi Department. Tokyo, Japan.
Solo Show: Scenery of the Past, Takashimaya Department. Tokyo, Japan.
The First Celebration of the Glass, The Imperial Hotel Plaza, Hana Asagi, Tokyo, Japan.
Shape of Glass, Mitsukoshi Department. Tokyo, Japan.
Glass Wonderland, Glass Course Exhibition. Geidai Art Plaza. Tokyo, Japan.
Refine: The 5th New Crafts International Emerging Artists Group Exhibition. Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Two Persons Exhibition: Blue Flowers. Soei Gallery. Tokyo, Japan.
Glass Art Exhibiton. The Tochigi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Tochigi, Japan.
Joshibi 42 Various Glass Artists. Karanis. Tokyo, Japan.
Internationalization of Arts and Crafts. Museum of Japan-China Friendship Center, Tokyo, Japan.
The 15th Anniversary, Tokyo University of the Arts-Glass course-. ars gallery. Tokyo, Japan.
Milan Design Week 2019, Resonance Materials Project-Sensory-. Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Italy.
Glass in Japan. Notojima Glass Art Museum. Ishikawa, Japan.
Congratulations, Spring Color. Geidai Art Plaza. Tokyo, Japan.
Materials to the Art. Soei Gallery. Tokyo, Japan.
Present of Ceramic, Porcelain, and Glass. Geidai Art Plaza. Tokyo, Japan.
Glass in Japan. Daikanyama Hillside Terrace. Tokyo, Japan.
NEW GLASS IDEAS. Gallery1.2, Toyama Glass Art Museum. Toyama, Japan.
Chakyo: 6th International Tea Culture Exchange Exhibition. Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan.
KOGEI COLOR. SUKIWA Gallery. Tokyo, Japan.
The 3rd Shingigei. Shanghai, China.
Seibu Department. Fukui, Japan.
Chakyo: 5th International Tea Culture Exchange Exhibition. China.
Arts in Bunkacyo. Agency for Cultural Affairs. Tokyo, Japan.
Glass Exhibition: Tokyo University of the Arts. Gallery Ruevent. Tokyo, Japan.
Chakyo: 4th International Tea Culture Exchange Exhibition. China.
Solo Show: Erika Tada glass work exhibition. Galleria Acca. Tokyo, Japan.
Glass in Japan. Notojima Glass Art Museum. Ishikawa, Japan.
Universe of Glass. Art House OYABE. Oyabe, Japan.
22nd Flower Arrangement Exhibition. Toyama City Plaza. Toyama, Japan.
Poco a Poco. Milestone Art Works. Toyama, Japan.
Joshibi University 100 years Anniversary Exhibition. Museum of Uenonomori. Tokyo, Japan.
Solo Show: Art Avenue Project. Takashimaya Department. Tokyo, Japan.
Glass Exhibition. Tokyo University of the Arts. Tokyo, Japan.
Producer: Taos Art Glass Invitational. Taos, New Mexico.
Advance. Milestone Art Works. Toyama, Japan.
Art Fair Toyama 2014. Toyama City Plaza. Toyama, Japan.
Mitsukoshi×Geidai: Summer Art Festival Exhibition. Mitsukoshi Department. Tokyo, Japan.
Art Fair Tokyo 2014. Tokyo International Forum. Tokyo, Japan.
Glass Exhibition. Tokyo University of the Arts. Tokyo, Japan.
Glass Story. Milestone Art Works. Toyama, Japan.
Art Fair Toyama 2013. Toyama City Plaza. Toyama, Japan.
Stanislav Libenský Award 2012. Prague Castle. Prague, Czech.
Pilchuck Trade Show. Pilchuck Glass School. Seattle, WA.
Young Art Taipei 2012. Taipei, Taiwan.
Solo Show. FUMA Contemporary Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan.
GlassWeekend. Wheaton Arts, Represented by the Gallery of Fine Craft. Millville, NJ.
Glass Exhibition. Tokyo University of the Arts. Tokyo, Japan.
BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.
Short Stories: Narratives from the Kiln. Selected as curator's choice artist by Susan Taylor Glasgow. Columbia Art
League. Columbia, MO
Vision Realized. Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Pittsburgh, PA.
Daiichi Museum Contemporary Glass Competition 2008. Aichi, Japan.
The Art of Dining. Worcester Center for Crafts. Worcester, MA.
Talk to Me: The Voice of Kiln-Formed Glass. Craft Alliance. St. Louis, MO.
The 17th Year of EAiR Exhibition. Friesen Gallery. Seattle, WA.
Nebraska’s Glass Artists Exhibition. Museum of Nebraska Art. Kearney, NE.
Halfway Home: Artist-in-Residence Exhibition. Worcester Center for Crafts. Worcester, MA.
GlassWeekend. Wheaton Arts, Represented by the Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Millville, NJ.
Nonconformists. Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Pittsburgh, PA.
Celebrating Connections: Contemporary Glass by Mid Atlantic Artists. Wheaton Arts, Museum of American Glass.
Millville, NJ.
UrbanGlass 2007 MFA Exhibition. UrbanGlass, Robert Lehman Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.
Extension: New England Glass, The Quiet Force. Worcester Center for Crafts. Worcester, MA.
Habatat Gallery Collector’s Show. Gallery r. Rochester, NY.
Solo Show: Recollection. Dyer Arts Center at NTID, Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY.
Winter Games. Bullseye Connection Gallery. Portland, OR.
Kiln Cast Glass. The Gallery of Fine Craft, Wheaton Arts, Museum of American Glass. Millville, NJ.
Passage. Wendell Castle Gallery. Scottsville, NY.
Impact. Davison Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College. Rochester, NY.
Particle Theories: International Pâte de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations. Wheaton Arts, Museum of
American Glass. Millville, NJ.
Tada and Kreager. Millennium Gallery. Kansas, MO.
Town & Country. Wesleyan Laboratory Galley. Lincoln, NE.
There and Here: In the Gallery. Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Pittsburgh, PA.
The Art of Fine Art. Wesleyan Laboratory Galley. Lincoln, NE.
SOFA CHICAGO 2002. Represented by the Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Chicago, IL.
SOFA CHICAGO 2001. Represented by the Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Chicago, IL.
Fall For Glass. Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Pittsburgh, PA.
Glass Lover’s Weekend. Wheaton Village, Represented by the Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Millville, NJ.
SOFA CHICAGO 2000. Represented by the Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Chicago, IL.

Educational Experiences

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  2023

  2023
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2021-23

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2020
2019
2019
2018
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2001-3

Visiting Lecturer for Workshop and Lecture supported by grant of The Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation.
Korea National University of Arts, Korea.
Visiting Lecturer for Critique. The Glass Certification Studies and The Advanced Research Studies Program.
Toyama Institute of Glass Art. Toyama, Japan.
Visiting Artist Virtual Lecture "Meet Up Session". Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass. Phoenix, AZ.
Visiting Professor Workshop and Lecture, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design. Poland.
Exchange program by “Spinaker 2021-23 - Artistic Spinning Grant”.
The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design. Poland and Tokyo University of the Arts.
Visiting Artist Lecture. Musashino Art University. Tokyo, Japan.
Presented the "Materiality, Objects and Objecthood" Glass Art Forum. Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Visiting Artist Lecture. Ball State University. Muncie, IN.
Visiting Artist Lecture. Tacoma Museum of Glass. Tacoma, WA.
Visiting Artist Lecture. Arizona Glass Alliance. Phoenix, AZ.
Jury member of Stanislav Libensky Award 2016. Praque Gallery of Czech Glass. Praque, Czech.
Visiting Artist Lecture. Tacoma Museum of Glass. Tacoma, WA.
Visiting Artist Lecture. Lasikomppania. Nuutajarvi, Finland.
Presented the Technique of Pâte de Verre. Association for Glass Art Studies. Tokyo, Japan.
Visiting Artist Lecture. Joshibi University of Art and Design. Kanagawa, Japan.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Ekphrastic Poetry. St. Louis Poetly Center. St. Louis, MO.
Robin Cass, Studio Assistant, Fabricating, Kilncasting and Coldworking. Rochester, NY.
Visiting Artist Lecture. Cornish College of the Arts. Seattle, WA.
Visiting Artist Lecture. The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, NY.
Presented the American / Japanese Glass Connection. Wheaton Village. Millville, NJ.
Tom Kreager, Studio Assistant, Glassblowing and Coldworking. Hastings, NE.

Residencies

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2019
2018
2016
2014
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2006
2001

Pilchuck Glass School "John H. Hauberg fellowship Residence". Seattle, WA.
Tacoma Museum of Glass “Visiting Artist Residency”. Tacoma, WA.
Corning Museum of Glass "Collaborative Residency Program". Corning, NY.
Tacoma Museum of Glass “Visiting Artist Residency”. Tacoma, WA.
Lasikomppania, Nuutajärven Lasitaitajat ry “AIR PROGRAM 2014”. Nuutajarvi, Finland.
Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY. (2008-2009)
UrbanGlass “Visiting Artist Fellowships: Emerging Artists”. Brooklyn, NY.
Worcester Center for Crafts “Resident Artist Program”. Worcester, MA. (2006-2007)
Pilchuck Glass School “Emerging Artist in Residence: EAiR Program”. Seattle, WA.
Corning Museum of Glass “Artist-in-Residence Program”. Corning, NY.
Hastings College. Hastings, NE. (2001-2003)

Honors & Grants

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1998

EU's Erasmus+ Program Grant, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Poland.
John H. Hauberg Fellowship, Pilchuck Glass School. Seattle, WA.
Exchange Dispatch Grant, Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation. Tokyo, Japan.
First Place, Red Hot 2016 Grand Prize. Tacoma Museum of Glass. Tacoma, WA.
Paris Award Nominee, Joshibi University of Art and Design.
Full Scholarship to attend Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, NY. (2016, 2009, 2005, 2004)
Second Place. Art Fair Toyama 2013. Toyama, Japan.
Creation & Research Award, Joshibi University of Art and Design.
Full Scholarship, Half Scholarship to attend Pilchuck Glass School. Seattle, WA. (2018, 2012, 2002)
Niche Award 2009, 2010 Finalist, Category of Cast / Slumped Glass. The Rosen Group. Baltimore, MD. (2010, 2009)
2007-2008 Visiting Artist Fellowship. UrbanGlass. Brooklyn, NY.
Niche Student Award 2007 Winner, Category of Sculptural Glass.
Purchase Prize. Rochester Institute of Technology, Wallace Library. Rochester, NY.
Full Scholarship to attend to Pittsburgh Glass Center. Pittsburgh, PA.
First Place. International Student Exhibition in GAS Conference. Adelaide, Australia.
General and Sano Takako Scholarship to attend GAS Conference. Adelaide, Australia / Amsterdam, Netherlands. (2005, 2002)
Scholarship to attend Penland School of Crafts. Penland, NC.
Vetro Magazine Awards, Best Debut Artist. SOFA 2001. Centro Studi Vetro. Murano, Italy.
New Glass Review 23 selected by the Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, NY.
Full Hachida Masa Scholarship to attend Bild-Werk. Frauenau, Germany.
First Place. Graduation Exhibition. Joshibi University of Art and Design. Kanagawa, Japan.

Professional Affiliation

Board of Director (2021-2023), Honorary Board Member (2023-2024). Glass Art Society, USA
Board of Director. Japan Glass Artcrafts Association, Japan
Board of Director. Association for Glass Art Studies, Japan

Collections

Tacoma Museum of Glass. Tacoma, WA.
Museum of Nebraska Art. Kearney, NE.
Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY.
Hastings College. Hastings, NE.
Bullseye Glass Company. Portland, OR.
Union Bank & Trust Company. Omaha, NE.
Worcester Center for Crafts. Worcester, MA.
Arizona Glass Alliance. Arizona, AZ.
Prague Gallery of Czech Glass. Prague, Czech.
Lasikomppania. Nuutajarvi, Finland.
Toyama City Hachiman School. Toyama, Japan.