Education
2022 Welding Certificate
Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA
2011 BFA- Glass
Tennessee Tech University, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN
Professional Experience
2008-24 Lyla Nelson Glass, Owner
Pittsburgh, PA
2011-15, 23-24Workshop Instructor
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2006-11 Workshop Instructor, FACCT Outreach program
Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN
2010 Teaching Assistant, Intro to Glass
Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN
Selected Exhibitions
2018 Masters of Craft
Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY
2017-18 Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, 2017
Hodge Gallery, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA. 2018
2017 Glasswork for Jennifer Wen Ma Installation, Night Which Contains the Sea
Van Doren Waxter Gallery, New York City, NY
2016 Glasswork for Jennifer Wen Ma Installation, Molar
Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, UK
2016 Glasswork for Jennifer Wen Ma Installation, "What About the Art?",
The Furthest Distance in a Paradise Interrupted
Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha, Qatar
2015 Out of the Archives and Into the Gallery
Hodge Gallery, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2015 Glasswork for Jennifer Wen Ma Installation, A Winter Landscape With Bits of Sparkle
Market Square, Pittsburgh, PA
2014 Flowers
Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY
2014 PGC @ MGG
Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2013-14 Lifeforms (*Award of Excellence)
Hodge Gallery, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloominton, Il
2013 Exhibit 1
Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI
2012 Teapot Collection
Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
2012 Teapots!
Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2012 Liberty In Bloom
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Layered Up
Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2011 Exhibit 3
Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI
2011 In Bloom, Solo Exhibition
Gallery One, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN
Awards
2013 Award of Excellence, Lifeforms Exhibition
2011 Windgate Fellowship Nominee
2010 NICHE Award