Mary Van Cline

Mary Van Cline earned a degree in design and architecture from North Texas University in 1976, and a Masters in Art in1977. She was introduced to glass at the Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina in 1979 and went on to study at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, where she earned her MFA in Glass Sculpture and Design in 1982.

She has taught at many prestigious institutions for the study of glass and contemporary art including Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, Rhode Island School of Design, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others. She also has received numerous awards and commissions, nationally and internationally.

Her work is in many private and museum collections around the world including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery; the Corning Museum of Glass; Kanazawa Museum in Japan; Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Japan; and the Detroit Institute for the Arts.