Saxe Emerging Artists Exhibition
Established by Dorothy and George Saxe, the Saxe Emerging Artist Award recognizes emerging talent in the glass community. Along with the opportunity to share their work with a large audience of established artists, educators, peers, collectors, art historians, and critics, recipients of the Saxe Emerging Artist Award receive a cash prize, a special lecture slot at the next GAS Conference, a digital catalog and media coverage in our social media channels, and more.
2024 Saxe Emerging Artist Jurors
Mikkel Hammer Elming is the director of Glas – Museum of Glass Art in Ebeltoft, Denmark. He has a master’s degree in art history from Aarhus University and specializes in curation of contemporary art. He is a co-creator and former director of the Association for Contemporary Art and the contemporary art center Regelbau 411. At the same time, he has run an independent curatorial practice and was associated with Kunsthal Aarhus as a permanent curator. Elming has been the driving force in the major changes at the museum formerly known as Glasmuseet Ebeltoft. Now under the name Glas, the museum aims to be a leading institution within contemporary glass art internationally.
Dr. Jörg Garbrecht is the director of The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung. He studied art history at the University of St. Andrews and received his doctorate from Oxford University. He has worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Tate Modern, the National Museums in Berlin, the Nolde Foundation in Seebüll and Berlin, whose branch at the Gendarmenmarkt he established and directed, and the municipal Kunsthalle Mannheim. Most recently, he was senior curator at the Art and Nature Foundation of entrepreneur Susanne Klatten.
Garbrecht curates exhibitions ranging from Art Nouveau to contemporary art and is a guest speaker and author of numerous catalogs and art historical articles. He has diverse experience with new museum buildings, repositioning and dynamizing collections in terms of content, and sustainable destination management. Garbrecht believes that “good art is a sensual and intellectual supercharger that touches and moves us far beyond our immediate encounter in the exhibition space.” His upcoming exhibition on the smartphone will open at The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung’s BlackBox in April 2024.
Originally from Colombia and currently based in Mexico City where she runs her studio, Luisa Restrepo specializes in warm glass techniques, creating pieces that range from contemporary jewelry to collectible design and performative actions. Restrepo’s artistic practice is characterized by a fervent exploration of form, rhythm, and pattern to produce works that are both essential and ambiguous. She maintains an unwavering commitment to quality and meticulous attention to detail, resulting in finely crafted pieces that are aesthetically captivating as they are conceptually rich.
She attended Wolverhampton University, England, where she studied Three-Dimensional Design specializing in glass and did her Masters in Design Studies at CENTRO Diseño, Cine y Televisión University in Mexico City, México. She has been part of the North Lands Creative and CGSC residency programs and has taught in different schools including Pilchuck Glass School and Urban Glass. She was awarded first prize at The Glass Prize, Bullseye Glass Artist, UK; the Bogota Museum of Glass Biennale, Colombia; and by the Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan. Also, she has been a finalist in the Monterrey Glass Museum Biennale, México; Emerge 2012, US; and Young Glass 2007, Denmark. In the past years, she has been invited to take part in MACO Contemporary Art and Design fair, and Design Week, both in México. Her work has been showcased both nationally and internationally.