Visiting Artist Residency: March 4 - 8, 2009
Conversation with Artist: March 8, 2pm Theater

Artist Biography
Scott Benefield received his MFA from Ohio State University in 1990 following a year spent studying with Ann Wolff in Sweden on a Fulbright-Hayes grant. He was a founder of the New Orleans School of GlassWorks and served as its first Educational Director; he also was a founding partner in Studio Inferno, a glass production facility in New Orleans. In 1997 he built his current studio, Isola Glass, on Camano Island, Washington. He exhibits his work at Vetri (Seattle) and had a one-person show there in August, 2007.

Scott is a past president of the Glass Art Society’s Board of Directors and still writes regularly for their bi-monthly newsletter as a contributing editor. In 2002 he was awarded a Fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America, and in 2004 was an artist-in-residence at North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland. He has taught workshops in the contemporary application of cane techniques in glassblowing at Appalachian Center for Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Craft, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Cam Ocagi (Istanbul). He has demonstrated cane work as a visiting artist at several university-level glass programs both here and abroad.