Student Exhibition

Noemi Nieves-Hoblin is a Philadelphia based artist who began working in glass at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, where she received her Bachelor Of Fine Arts in glass in 2024. Her work utilizes glass as a canvas for narrative sculpture, inspired by personal mythopoetic stories that are passed down orally. She uses glassblowing, flameworking and stained-glass processes to create work that references the natural world and familial histories.

Barbara Kittrell has been involved in the glass community for 45 years as a maker, curator, gallerist, and collector. She and her husband, David, started their custom architectural flat glass business in 1980. In 1990 they founded Kittrell Riffkind Art Glass, along with their partner Michael Riffkind. The gallery has grown and evolved over the years, offering outstanding and innovative art glass from established and emerging artists nationwide to the North Texas market and beyond. After several moves and the retirement of Michael in 2014, the gallery has merged with Southwest Gallery and continues to thrive in its new shared space with their fine art sister gallery.

Jeroen Maes (b. 1977), trained as a glass researcher, maker and restorer, was one of the founders of the glass museum GlazenHuis in Lommel, Belgium, in 2007. There he curated more than 35 international exhibitions that confronted contemporary art and design with historical glass. In addition to his position as artistic director, since 2018 he has focused on his personal creations under the name Tideline. He developed a modular framework with colorful blown glass elements to turn them into light objects or installations.