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Adams, Hank Murta [1956-. USA. Glass Artist]
Adams, Hank Murta [1956-. USA. Glass Artist]
Hank Murta Adams [also known as Hank M. Adams] was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1956 and studied at under Dale Chihuly at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island (B.F.A., 1980); Penland School of Crafts in Spruce Pine, North Carolina (1980); Pilchuck Glass School, near Stanwood, Washington (1981); and at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee (1981-84).
Adams worked as a designer for the Benko Glass Co. in Milton, West Virginia (1988-94) and has been creative consultant for the Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, New Jersey (since 2001). He has also taught at Appalachian Center in Smithville, Tennessee (1981-85), and has lectured, given workshops and been visiting artist elsewhere, including at the Center for Creative Studioes in Detroit, Michigan, Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, and at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
Solo exhibitions of Adams's work have been held at Glass Gallery in Bethesda, Maryland (1982); Appalachian Center in Smithville, Tennessee (1983); Contemporary Arts Center in Honolulu, Hawaii (1984); SM Gallery Edith Gottschalk in Frankfurt, West Germany (1984); J & L Lobmeyr Gallery in Vienna, Austria (1984); Matrix Gallery in Austin, Texas (1985); Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (1985); Heller Gallery in New York City (1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 2003); Traver Sutton Gallery in Seattle, Washington (1986); Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina (1986); Great American Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia (1987); Michigan Gallery in Detroit, Michigan (1987); Dorothy Weiss Gallery in San Francisco, California (1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1995);Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin (1988); Connell Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia (1990); Robert Kidd Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan (1995, 1999); Elliott Brown Gallery in Seattle, Washington (1996, 1999, 2001); The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, New York (2001); Marx-Saunders Gallery in Chicago, Illinois (2002); Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, New Jersey (2008); and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach, Virginia (2009). A joint exhibition of work by Adams, Pike Powers and James Watkins was held at Dorothy Weiss Gallery in San Francisco, California (1996).
Among group exhibitions Adams has participated in are 'Americans in Glass' at Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin (1981); 'Glass Routes' at DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts (1981); 'Contemporary Glass: Australia, Canada, U.S.A., and Japan' at National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan (1981); 'The Painted Object' Meyer Brier Weiss Gallery in San Francisco, California (1982); 'Contemporary Blown Glass' at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida (1982); 'Contemporary Glass' at Louisville Art Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky (1986); 'Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical' at the American Craft Museum [now Museum of Arts and Design] in New York City (1986-87, toured 1987-88); 'The Eloquent Object' at Tulsa Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1987, toured); 'Studio Glass: Selections form the David Jacob Chodorkoff Collection' Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan (1991); 'World Glass Now' at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan (1991); 'Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection' at Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio (1993); 'Contemporary Cast Glass' at San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum in San Francisco, California (1994); 'Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections' at Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio (1997); 'The Glass Skin' at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan (1997, toured); 'Glass! Glorious Glass!' at the National Museum of American Art, The Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC (1999); 'Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass' at Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, Florida (2003); American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement' at Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (2003); and 'Clear Your Mind: Contemporary Glass Invitational' at Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa (2008).
Adams was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in 1986, 1988 and 1990.
Examples of his work are in the permanent collections of Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative Arts Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas; Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama; Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee; Contemporary Arts Center in Honolulu, Hawaii; Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan; Glas Museum Frauenau in Frauenau, Germany; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan; Honolulu Academy of Art in Honolulu, Hawaii; J & L Lobmeyr Collection in Vienna, Austria; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany; Leigh Yawkey; Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin; Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina; Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Lausanne, Switzerland; Oberglas Museum in Barnbach, Austria; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; Shimonoseki City Art Museum in Yamaguchi, Japan; State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in Honolulu, Honolulu; and Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio
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Adams worked as a designer for the Benko Glass Co. in Milton, West Virginia (1988-94) and has been creative consultant for the Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, New Jersey (since 2001). He has also taught at Appalachian Center in Smithville, Tennessee (1981-85), and has lectured, given workshops and been visiting artist elsewhere, including at the Center for Creative Studioes in Detroit, Michigan, Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, and at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
Solo exhibitions of Adams's work have been held at Glass Gallery in Bethesda, Maryland (1982); Appalachian Center in Smithville, Tennessee (1983); Contemporary Arts Center in Honolulu, Hawaii (1984); SM Gallery Edith Gottschalk in Frankfurt, West Germany (1984); J & L Lobmeyr Gallery in Vienna, Austria (1984); Matrix Gallery in Austin, Texas (1985); Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (1985); Heller Gallery in New York City (1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 2003); Traver Sutton Gallery in Seattle, Washington (1986); Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina (1986); Great American Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia (1987); Michigan Gallery in Detroit, Michigan (1987); Dorothy Weiss Gallery in San Francisco, California (1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1995);Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin (1988); Connell Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia (1990); Robert Kidd Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan (1995, 1999); Elliott Brown Gallery in Seattle, Washington (1996, 1999, 2001); The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, New York (2001); Marx-Saunders Gallery in Chicago, Illinois (2002); Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, New Jersey (2008); and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach, Virginia (2009). A joint exhibition of work by Adams, Pike Powers and James Watkins was held at Dorothy Weiss Gallery in San Francisco, California (1996).
Among group exhibitions Adams has participated in are 'Americans in Glass' at Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin (1981); 'Glass Routes' at DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts (1981); 'Contemporary Glass: Australia, Canada, U.S.A., and Japan' at National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan (1981); 'The Painted Object' Meyer Brier Weiss Gallery in San Francisco, California (1982); 'Contemporary Blown Glass' at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida (1982); 'Contemporary Glass' at Louisville Art Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky (1986); 'Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical' at the American Craft Museum [now Museum of Arts and Design] in New York City (1986-87, toured 1987-88); 'The Eloquent Object' at Tulsa Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1987, toured); 'Studio Glass: Selections form the David Jacob Chodorkoff Collection' Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan (1991); 'World Glass Now' at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan (1991); 'Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection' at Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio (1993); 'Contemporary Cast Glass' at San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum in San Francisco, California (1994); 'Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections' at Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio (1997); 'The Glass Skin' at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan (1997, toured); 'Glass! Glorious Glass!' at the National Museum of American Art, The Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC (1999); 'Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass' at Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, Florida (2003); American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement' at Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (2003); and 'Clear Your Mind: Contemporary Glass Invitational' at Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa (2008).
Adams was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in 1986, 1988 and 1990.
Examples of his work are in the permanent collections of Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative Arts Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas; Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama; Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee; Contemporary Arts Center in Honolulu, Hawaii; Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan; Glas Museum Frauenau in Frauenau, Germany; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan; Honolulu Academy of Art in Honolulu, Hawaii; J & L Lobmeyr Collection in Vienna, Austria; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany; Leigh Yawkey; Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin; Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina; Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Lausanne, Switzerland; Oberglas Museum in Barnbach, Austria; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; Shimonoseki City Art Museum in Yamaguchi, Japan; State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in Honolulu, Honolulu; and Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio
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A head sculpture: "Tulip Head", clear glass, by Hank Murta Adams
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Video. Glass Studio Visiting Artist: Hank Murta Adams. Chrysler Musum of Art
YouTube. GB 1 0:02 / 3:41 Up next Autoplay 12:52 TEDxEast - Nancy Callan - 21st Century Glassblower TEDx Talks 9.9K views 7:22 Ben Tullman - Glass Blowing michaelbartello 84K views 3:58 First Hot Glass Casting Pour at The Doug frank smith 46K views 13:06 The Art of Kiln-glass Bullseye Glass Co. 48K views 3:45 Hank Adams. Jij bent van mij. Co van Raaijen 2.1K views 2:30 LIBENSKY BRYCHTOVA glass contemporary 2000 jean claude chapelotte Recommended for you 2:52 Annealing and Tension in Glass Corning Museum of Glass 56K views 3:56 Joseph Cornell - The Midnight Party (1938) oobleckboy Recommended for you 1:09:41 BBC Imagine 2013 Vivian Maier dashobrien Recommended for you 1:31 Sand Cast glass workshop David Bradley 67K views 2:48 We speak of the realms thisisredz 12K views 7:28 Making of monotype-prints with plastic bags 3 Rafael Springer 67K views 6:07 Brooklyn Museum Conservation Lab: Della Robbia Relief Brooklyn Museum Recommended for you 12:53 Art of the Marbler Bedfordshire Archives 1.2M views 11:42 THE BEST STREET PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE YEAR 2016 Gharib Mohamed 101K views 20:41 How I Started Making Money with Art Rhiannon Smith 52K views 2:58 Mini BIO S1 • E10 Mini BIO - Abigail Adams Biography 34K views 13:26 CONTEMPORARY ART : The painter Jean-Jacques Pigeon (Work in progress) L'art en boîte 620K views 8:07 How to Photograph the Moon Tony & Chelsea Northrup 478K views 4:56:03 Hot Shop LIVE: Visiting Artist- Lino Tagliapietra Museum of Glass Recommended for you New LEGACY OF LIGHT - Hank Murta Adams
American Craft Council
American Studio Craft History
Artnet
Austin Art Studio
Smithsonian American Art Museum
TouTube, Hank Murta Adams: 2016 American Craft Council Awards
Video. Glass Studio Visiting Artist: Hank Murta Adams. Chrysler Musum of Art
YouTube. GB 1 0:02 / 3:41 Up next Autoplay 12:52 TEDxEast - Nancy Callan - 21st Century Glassblower TEDx Talks 9.9K views 7:22 Ben Tullman - Glass Blowing michaelbartello 84K views 3:58 First Hot Glass Casting Pour at The Doug frank smith 46K views 13:06 The Art of Kiln-glass Bullseye Glass Co. 48K views 3:45 Hank Adams. Jij bent van mij. Co van Raaijen 2.1K views 2:30 LIBENSKY BRYCHTOVA glass contemporary 2000 jean claude chapelotte Recommended for you 2:52 Annealing and Tension in Glass Corning Museum of Glass 56K views 3:56 Joseph Cornell - The Midnight Party (1938) oobleckboy Recommended for you 1:09:41 BBC Imagine 2013 Vivian Maier dashobrien Recommended for you 1:31 Sand Cast glass workshop David Bradley 67K views 2:48 We speak of the realms thisisredz 12K views 7:28 Making of monotype-prints with plastic bags 3 Rafael Springer 67K views 6:07 Brooklyn Museum Conservation Lab: Della Robbia Relief Brooklyn Museum Recommended for you 12:53 Art of the Marbler Bedfordshire Archives 1.2M views 11:42 THE BEST STREET PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE YEAR 2016 Gharib Mohamed 101K views 20:41 How I Started Making Money with Art Rhiannon Smith 52K views 2:58 Mini BIO S1 • E10 Mini BIO - Abigail Adams Biography 34K views 13:26 CONTEMPORARY ART : The painter Jean-Jacques Pigeon (Work in progress) L'art en boîte 620K views 8:07 How to Photograph the Moon Tony & Chelsea Northrup 478K views 4:56:03 Hot Shop LIVE: Visiting Artist- Lino Tagliapietra Museum of Glass Recommended for you New LEGACY OF LIGHT - Hank Murta Adams