Today: Pamina Traylor at the Oakland Museum of California

Exhale. 2011. Blown glass, oil paint, steel, silicone, 24 x 16 x 3.5 in. Collection of the artist. Photo credit: Hans Jurgen Bergmann

Pamina Traylor (b. 1964). BA Bryn Mawr College, 1987. MFA Rochester Institute of Technology, 1995. Interim Chair and Senior Adjunct Professor, Glass Program, California College of the Arts, present.

Pamina Traylor is an artist and educator. She was a visiting artist/faculty member at the Osaka University of Art (Japan), in the fall of 2007, served as a member of the Glass Art Society’s (GAS) Board of Directors from 2003 to 2011, and continues as its Treasurer (from 2006 to the present).

Traylor was awarded fellowships from the Creative Glass Center of America (1995 and 2003), and received California College of the Arts Faculty Travel and Development Grants in 1998, 2007 and 2011. She has lectured and demonstrated at schools in Australia, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and taught workshops throughout the world, including The Glass Furnace (Istanbul), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, and The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, among others. Her work is found in several prestigious permanent collections.