Sonja Blomdahl
born Waltham, Massachusetts, 1952
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- Waltham
born New London, Connecticut, 1937
BiographySonja Blomdahl runs a glassblowing studio in Seattle and has served as an instructor at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington and Haystack Mountain School in Maine. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1974 and pursued further studies at the Orrefors Glass School in Sweden. She has an extensive exhibition record including Sonja Blomdahl: Incalmo at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, a 20-year retrospective at the Museum of Northwest Art in LaConner, and notable group exhibitions such as Masters of Contemporary Glass Art, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Taking Shape: The Pilchuck Glass School in the 70s, Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington. Her work can be found in numerous museum and corporate collections.