Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg

With a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Weinberg is a two-time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and has been casting and cutting glass in his Rhode Island studio since 1979.

His work is represented in the permanent collections of over fifty major public art museums around the world, including the Musee Des Artes Decoratifs at Palais du Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Smithsonian.

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Born in 1954, Weinberg represents the second generation of studio glass artists. In the early 1970s, Weinberg also studied ceramics at Alfred, but soon switched over to glass, working with studio glass pioneer Andre Billeci, and the Scottish artist Eric Hilton, who had come to Alfred from London's Royal College of Art.

Weinberg found an important mentor in Hilton, who encouraged him to explore techniques and approaches other than the free-form style of glassblowing that was so popular at the time. With the help of Hilton, Weinberg began exploring cutting and grinding glass.

Weinberg chose to pursue his graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design so that he could work with Dale Chihuly, who headed the program there. Chihuly was another valued mentor who taught Weinberg how to be a professional artist.

Upon his graduation in 1979, Weinberg began to build his studio practice, and in his case, he literally built it, starting with the development and construction of his studio equipment. Although popular now, Weinberg's interest in kiln-casting and in cutting and polishing glass was quite uncommon in American studio glass of the late 1970s.

[Biographical text adapted from the Corning Museum of Glass]