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Glen Kaufman: Biography & Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Glen Kaufman received his BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and after serving 2 years in the US Air Force he received his MFA in Weaving and Textiles from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, studied on a Fulbright Grant in Denmark and was a designer for Dorothy Liebes In New York City.

In 1962 he returned to lead the Weaving and Textiles program at Cranbrook . While there he curated several exhibitions of historic fabrics from the Cranbrook Museum collections as well as other Detroit institutions. In 1967 Design on Fabrics was published, which he co-authored with Meda Parker Johnston. This book served as a text in the study of a wide variety of surface design processes through both paperback and a 2nd edition for many years.

In 1967 he established the Fabric Design program in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, retiring in 2008. While at UGA he developed courses in the history of fabrics and established a corollary fabric study collection of over 1000 examples. In 1999 he inaugurated a Study Abroad program in Japan that exposed students to Japanese culture and unique fabric processes. He guided this program until his retirement in 2008.

Kaufman’s international travels have had a significant impact on both his teaching and his creative work. During his year of study on a Fulbright grant at the Textile Department at the State School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen he traveled extensively in Europe. Subsequently, he had the opportunity in two separate years to pursue research in historic fabrics in the UK and the Continent. In 1979, travels to Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok and India provided numerous opportunities to absorb entirely different cultural influences. He returned to Japan in 1983 and continued to create works and exhibit there continuously each year through 2019.

With studios in Georgia and Kyoto, where he worked for over 30 years, he has exhibited both nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Noted for many years for his work in precious metal leaf inspired by traditional Japanese fabrics, in his later years he concentrated on installations and collaborations.

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL

  • Born October 28, 1932 – Died January 16, 2020
  • Fort Atkinson, WI (1932 – 1950)
  • Madison, WI (1950 – 1954)
  • Columbus, OH (1955 – 1957)
  • Bloomfield Hills, MI (1957 – 1959)
  • Copenhagen, Denmark (1959 – 1960)
  • New York, NY (1960 – 1961)
  • Bloomfield Hills, MI (1961 – 1967)
  • Athens, GA (1967 – 2020), Kyoto, Japan (1983 – 2019), Big Canoe, GA (2003 – 2020)

EDUCATION

  • BS with honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1954
  • MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1959
  • Certificate, State School of Arts and Crafts, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1960

POSITIONS

  • Head, Fibers Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1961 – 67
  • Associate Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia,  1967 – 72
  • Area Chair, Fabric Design Program, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, 1967 – 2008
  • Graduate Faculty, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1969 – 2008
  • Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1972 – 2008
  • Visiting Artist, School of Textiles, Royal College of Art, London, England, 1976
  • Director, Study Abroad Program – Japan, University of Georgia, 1999 – 2008
  • Professor of Art Emeritus, University of Georgia, 2008 – 2020

GRANTS

  • Fulbright Grant to Denmark, 1959 – 60
  • Grant for research and travel to Europe, University of Georgia, Department of Art, 1973
  • National Endowment for the Arts Craftsmen’s Fellowship Grant, 1976
  • Grant for research and travel to Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and India. Department of Art/Ford Foundation Faculty Enrichment Grant, 1979
  • National Endowment for the Arts Services to the Field Grant, 1980 – 81 Services to the Field Grant extended, 1981-82
  • National Endowment for the Arts Services to the Field Grant, 1981 – 82 Surface Design Journal, Co-project director
  • National Endowment for the Arts Short Crafts Workshop Grant, 1981 Southeast Regional Conference, Surface Design Association, Project Director
  • University of Georgia Summer Undergraduate Teaching Stipend, 1982
  • National Endowment for the Arts, Grants to Art Organizations. 1983 Surface Design Association National Conference, Project Director
  • Faculty Research Grant, UGA Office of VP for Research, 1983
  • National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship Grant, 1990
  • Georgia Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, 1991
  • Senior Faculty Research Grant, UGA Research Foundation, 1992
  • Senior Faculty Research Grant, UGA Research Foundation, 1996
  • International Academic Program Development Fund Grant, UGA Office of International  Education, 1999
  • Maymester Mini-grant, Office of the Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of  Georgia, 1999
  • Learning Technologies Grant “Conversion of the Textile Study Collection to a Digital Format Resource”, University of Georgia, 1999

HONORS/AWARDS

  • Honorary Life Member, Surface Design Association, 1983
  • Creative Research Medal, The University of Georgia, 1988
  • Fellow, American Craft Council, 1988
  • M. G. Michael Award, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Georgia, 1991
  • Albert Christ-Janer Award for Creative Research, The University of Georgia, 1992
  • Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, 1992
  • Study Abroad Director of the Year, Office of International Education, The University of Georgia, 2004
  • Distinguished Educator Award, James Renwick Alliance for Craft, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2014

MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Craft Council
  • Friends of Fiber Art International
  • Surface Design Association: Southeast Regional Representative, 1977-1980; President, 1980-82
  • Textile Society of America

EXHIBITIONS (Solo Shows)

 Note: Solo Shows marked with * were installations.

  • Galleries of Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1962
  • Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 1964
  • “Exhibition of Fabrics,” Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, 1965
  • “Tapestries by Glen Kaufman,” Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, 1966
  • “Fabric,” American House Michigan, Birmingham, 1966
  • “Weavings by Glen Kaufman,” Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, 1967
  • Ithaca College Museum of Art, New York, 1967
  • “Weaving by Glen Kaufman,” Museum West, San Francisco, 1967
  • “Fabric Constructions,” Lee Nordness Galleries, New York, New York, 1969
  • “Fabrics,” State University College, Oneonta, New York, 1969
  • Wichita Art Association, Kansas, 1973
  • “Fiber/Film/Foam,” Visual Arts Gallery, University of Georgia, 1974
  • Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, 1978
  • “Gloves,” Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan, 1984
  • “Gloves,” Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 1984
  • “Gloves,” Gallery Juraku, Kyoto, Japan, 1984
  • “Glove”, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA, 1985
  • “New Works/Small Weavings,” Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan, 1985
  • “New Works/Small Weavings,” Sembikiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1985
  • “Gloves,” Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 1986
  • “Reflections/Fragments,” Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, 1986
  • “Gloves,” Fiberworks, Berkeley, California, 1987
  • “Reflections/Fragments,” Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 1987
  • “Reflections/Fragments,” Fukuoka American Center, Fukuoka, Japan, 1987
  • “Reflections/Fragments,” La Pola Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 1987
  • “Reflections/Fragments,” Sapporo American Center, Sapporo, Japan, 1987
  • “Reflections/Fragments,” EAS Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1987
  • “Japan Reflections,” Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA, 1988
  • “Recent Work,” The Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1988
  • “Recent Work,” Fuji Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 1988
  • “Narrative Works,” Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
  • “Narrative Works,” Design Expo ’89, Nagoya Port Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, 1989
  • *”November Tale,” Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1989
  • “Recent Work,” The Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1990
  • “November Tale,” Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 1990
  • “Japan Reflections,” Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1991
  • “Reflections — East and West”, Itami City Crafts Center, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan 1991
  • “Reflections — East and West”, Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, Japan 1991
  • “Reflections — East and West”, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia, 1992
  • “Seven Up: Seven Solo Exhibitions”, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA, 1992
  • *”Works on Silk”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1992
  • “Night Windows/Bangkok”, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 1994
  • “Window Views”, Gallery Nouveau, Busan, Korea, 1994
  • “Window Views”, Ba Tang Gol Arts Center, Seoul, Korea, 1994
  • “Endangered Cities”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1996
  • “Endangered Cities”, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 1996
  • “Night Windows/Bangkok”, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1998
  • “Thai/Malay Reflections”, State University of West Georgia, Carolton, GA, 1999
  • “Silk Roads: Travels With Glen Kaufman”, One and Two American Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 2000
  • “Kyoto Castoffs”, Gallery 99-01, Okayama, Japan, 2001
  • “The Shimogamo Scrolls”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto Japan, 2001
  • “Silk Roads: Travels with Glen Kaufman”, Sun Trust Plaza Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2002
  • *”Maku: Walls of Celebration”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2003
  • *“Fabric in Space”, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 2004
  • “Patched”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2005
  • “Kawara View”, Consulate General of Japan, Atlanta, GA, 2005
  • *“Jeans Tableaux”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2006
  • *“Nuno no Odori” performance, Athens, GA, 2006
  • *”Kaunakes” Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2008
  • *”Jeans Festival” + performance, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2010
  • “Collage Suite”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2012
  • *”Blowin’ In the Wind” + performance, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2012
  • *“Lost & Found”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2014
  • *”Skyfall” + performance, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2014
  • *”Juban: Seeing Red” + performance, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2016
  • *”Wrapped: Welcome to the Tool Shed”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2017
  • *”Skyfall 2.0″ + performance, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2019
  • “Retrospective”, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan, 2020
  • “Elegant Eloquence” (part of “Vignettes: One Venue, Three Exhibitions”), BrownGrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, 2023

GROUP EXHIBITIONS – SINCE 1969

  • “Objects: USA,” S.C. Johnson & Son, Collection of Contemporary Crafts; Opened National Collection of Fine Arts, 1969; Toured United States, 1969-71; Toured Europe, 1972-74
  • National Decorative Arts and Ceramics, Invitational Exhibition, Wichita Art Association, Kansas, 1970
  • “Crafts 1970,” Boston City Hall, 1970
  • “Art in Other Media,” Burpee Art Gallery, Rockford, Illinois, Museum Purchase 1970
  • “Fur and Feathers,” Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, 1971
  • “2nd Invitational Contemporary Crafts Show,” Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, New York, 1971
  • “Georgia Artists,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1971, 1972, 1974
  • “Group Show,” American Crafts Council Gallery, New York, 1972
  • “Fabrications” Galleries, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1972
  • “Fabrics Exhibition,” Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 1972
  • “Designer Craftsmen Today,” Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1972
  • “Modern American Textile Sculptures and Tapestries,” 1972-73: Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo   Kunstindustrimusem, Trondheim, Norway Ars Studeo, Copenhagen
  • “Four Contemporary Craftsmen,” Lee Gallery, Clemson University, South Carolina, 1973
  • “Pacesetters and Prototypes – Weavers and Fabrics,” Detroit Institute of Arts, 1973
  • “National Craft-Invitational Exhibition,” School of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 1973
  • “Contexture,” Invitational Exhibition, The Gallery, Fort Wayne Public Library, Indiana,  1974
  • “Invitational Craft Exhibition,” The Member’s Gallery, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1974
  • “Coastal Craftsmen ’74,” Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, Michigan, 1974
  • “Southeastern Invitational Crafts Exhibition,” Greenville County Museum, Greenville, South Carolina, 1974
  • “Fiber,” Invitational Exhibition, Viterbo College, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 1974
  • “lst International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles,” The British Craft Center, London, Exhibition toured 1974-75: Bellerive Museum, Zurich; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Laussane; Artweave Textile Gallery, New York
  • “Miniature World and Delicate Objects,” Fairtree Gallery, New York and galeria del sol, Santa Barbara, 1975
  • “US Invitational: Fiber,” The Arts and Science Center, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1975
  • “Emphasis Art ’76,” Miami University Crafts, Invitational Exhibition, Oxford, Ohio, 1975
  • “2nd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles,” The British Craft Center, London, Exhibition, toured 1976-78: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland; Museum Boymans-van Beunigen, Rotterdam; Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Holland; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne; Australia, September 1977 – March 1978
  • “Artists in the Southeast,” 1976-78: High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Greenville County Museum, South Carolina; Hunter Museum of Art, Tennessee; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • “Third Edition – Ltd.,” New England College, East Henniker, New Hampshire, 1977
  • “Invitational Textile Exhibition,” Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina, 1977
  • “Focus on Crafts: An Exhibition,” University of Minnesota, 1977
  • “Fibers National Invitational Exhibition,” 1977: Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina; East Carolina University, Greenville, South Carolina; Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia
  • “Feathers: Plain and Fancy,” Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, New York, 1977
  • “Effort: Effect,” The Signature Shop, Atlanta, Georgia, 1977
  • “American Crafts 1977,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1977
  • “3rd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles,” The British Crafts Center, London, Exhibition toured 1978-82: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Decorative Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; Bouse Art Gallery, New Zealand; The Octagon Art Center, Ames, Iowa; San Diego State University, California; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia; Oregon School for Arts and Crafts, Portland; Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri; Ontario Arts Council, Canada; Cartwright Street Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Worcester Craft Center, Massachusetts; Monogalla Arts Center, Morgantown, West Virginia
  • “Fibers Southeast ’79,” Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 1979
  • “National Crafts Invitational,” Arts and Crafts Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1979
  • “Miniature Fiber Arts: A National Exhibition,” Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, toured 1979-80: Textile Museum, Washington, DC; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
  • “Southeast Craft Exhibition,” Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, 1980
  • “4th International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles,” The British Crafts Center, London, Toured 1980-83: South Glamorgan Institute, Cardiff, Wales; City Art Center, Edinburgh, Scotland; Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Holland; Provincial Museum, Antwerp, Belgium; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; Tour of Australia
  • “Midwest Constructed Fiber Exhibition,” Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 1980, Swen Parson Gallery, North Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, 1981 Lafayette Art Center, Lafayette, Indiana, 1981 University of Tennessee Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1981
  • “Textile Impressions” (three-person show), Visual Arts Gallery 200, Northern Illinois  University, DeKalb Illinois, 1981
  • “Indigenous Crafts of Georgia,” (two-year traveling exhibition), Atlanta, Georgia, 1981
  • “Haystack Celebration,” Cooper Lynn Gallery, New York, 1981
  • “Georgia Crafts Professionals Exhibit”, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, 1982
  • “The New Plastics: Fiber in Today’s Technology,” Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, 1982
  • “Fibers National Invitational Exhibition 1982”, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, 1982
  • “Georgia Weaving,” Museum of Art and Science, Macon, Georgia, 1983
  • “100 Gloves,” Performing Arts Center Gallery, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida, 1983
  • “Wood and Fiber”, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 1983
  • “Cranbrook Today,” Robert L. Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 1983
  • “Legends in Fiber,” The Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa, 1986
  • “Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, “American Craft Museum, New York, 1986. Exhibition toured 1987-88 The Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Laguna Art Museum, California; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; The J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
  • “Gendai Kogei Annual Exhibition,” Tokyo, Japan, 1987
  • “Interlacing, the Elemental Fabric,” American Craft Museum, 1987
  • The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, 1988
  • “Shibori Festival” Denki Kaikan Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, 1987
  • “World Textile Studio,” International Textile Fair, Kyoto, Japan, 1987
  • “Japan: Under the Influence” Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southampton, New York, 1988
  • “Art as Craft” Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois, 1988
  • “Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans” (3 works) Tour sponsored by USIA; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, 1988; Ishikawa Industrial Center, Kanazawa, Japan, 1988; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 1988; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, 1988; Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea, 1988; The Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok, 1989; National Art Galleries, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1989; Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China, 1989; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines, 1990; Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong, 1990; National Art Galleries, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1990; National Art Gallery, Singapore, 1990;
  • “Threadworks: Miniature Textile Art” (4 works) Sponsored by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. SITES Gallery, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC, 1988-1989; C.I.G.N.A. Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, 1989; Bloomingdale Park District Museum, Bloomingdale, Illinois, 1989; Creative Arts Center, Sunnyvale, California, 1989; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan, 1989-1990; National Library, Mbabane, Swaziland, 1990; National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1990; Namibian Arts Association, Windhoek, Namibia, 1990; Makerere University Art Gallery, Kampala, Uganda, 1990; American Cultural Center, Kigali, Rwanda, 1991; National Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1991; National Library, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 1991; Natural History Museum, Port Louis, Mauritius, 1991
  • “Beyond Craft” Visual Arts Museum, The School of Visual Arts, New York, 1989
  • “Craft Today USA” (1 work) USIA Arts America Program. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1989; Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, 1989; Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfort, 1990; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, 1990; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1990; Museum of Decorative and Folk Art, Moscow, 1990; State Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey, 1991; The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway, 1991; St. Peter’s Abbey, Ghent, Belgium, 1991; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany, 1991; Eommex Cultural Center – The Zappeion, Athens, Greece, 1991; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1992; The Grassi Museum, Liepzig, Germany, 1992; Sula Sant Jaume de la “La Caixia”, Barcelona, Spain, 1992; The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, 1993         
  • “Artful Objects: Recent American Crafts” Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, 1989
  • “1st Textile Artists Exhibition,” Sembikiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
  • “Itami Craft Competition,” Itami Craft Center, Osaka, Japan, 1989, Silver Prize
  • “2nd Itami Craft Competition,” Itami Craft Center, Osaka, Japan, 1990
  • “From Tapestry to Vessel: Contemporary Fiber Art”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, 1990
  • “Works by Seven NEA Fellowship Winners,” The Farrell Collection, Washington, DC, 1991
  • “20th Anniversary Exhibition”, The Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1991
  • “In Our Hands An International Competition”, Nagoya Trade and Industry Center, Nagoya, Japan, 1991
  • “Selected Grant Recipients”, New Visions Gallery of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia,  1992
  • “Fiber Art – New Directions for the Nineties”, Manchester Institute for the Arts and  Sciences, NH, 1992
  • “3rd International Textile Competition – Kyoto”, Museum of Kyoto, Japan, 1992
  • “American Craft: The Nation’s Collection”, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of  American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1992-93
  • “Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine”, The Cleveland Museum  of Art, 1993
  • “Textile Miniature Work”, Gallery Watanabe, Fukushima and Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 1993
  • “Hard Edge/Soft Edge”, Atlanta Financial Center, Atlanta, 1993
  • “Diverse Directions”, The School of Art Faculty Exhibition, Georgia Museum of Art,  Athens, 1993
  • “Simply Fabric Design”, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1993
  • “American Craft: The Nations Collection”, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of  American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993
  • “Crafts of the World” (30 Years Anniversary Exhibition), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 1993
  • “Textile Acquisitions, 1987-93”, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1993
  • “Textile Miniature Works Contemporary Art of Japan”, Kasteel Van de Landcommanderij, Alden Biesen, Belgium, 1993
  • “Beyond Function”, Brenau University Gallery, Gainesville, GA, 1993
  • “Dyeing Art Exhibition”, Museum of Kyoto, Japan, 1994
  • “West Meets East”, Asian Arts Center, Towson State University, Towson, MD, 1994
  • “Uncommon Threads”, Southern Bell Center, Atlanta, GA, 1994
  • “Pan Pacific International Fine Arts Exhibition”, Tokyo Fine Arts Theater Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1994
  • “Fiber: Five Decades/Selections from the Permanent Collection,” American Craft Museum, New York, 1995
  • Third “In Our Hands: Mixed Media, Small Scale and 3-Dimensional Works, An International Competition”, Nagoya Trade and Industry Center, Nagoya, Japan, 1995
  • “Textile Miniature Works Contemporary Art of Japan II”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan,  1995
  • “Textile Miniature Works Contemporary Art of Japan II”, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada, 1995
  • “Textile Miniature Works Contemporary Art of Japan I”, Musée Marsil, Montreal, Canada,  1995
  • “Group Show”, The Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1995
  • “Crossed Threads”, Salem Art Association, Salem, Oregon, (3-person show), 1996
  • “SOFA” (Sculpture Objects and Functional Art), Navy Pier, Chicago. Represented by Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1996
  • “Textile Miniature Works – Contemporary Art of Japan”, (Tour of Australia), 1996; Craftwest Gallery, Crafts Council of Western Australia, Perth; Craft Vic Gallery, Crafts Council of Victoria, Melbourne; Craftspace, Crafts Council of New South Wales, Sydney; University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston
  • “Mini-Drawing Exhibition”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1996
  • “Threads-Fiber Art in the 90’s”, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, 1997
  • “Reflections/Visions – Precious Metals in Textiles”, (a two-person show with Junco Sato Polack), Georgia State University, School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta, 1997
  • “The 10th Wave/Part II: Textiles and Fiber Wall Sculpture”, Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1997
  • “Fiberworks”, (a three-person show), Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,  Tennessee, 1997
  • “School of Art Faculty Exhibition: Part I”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, 1997
  • “New Acquisitions”, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998
  • “Glen Kaufman and Hisako Sekijima Textiles and Sculptural Baskets”, Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1998
  • “SOFA/New York 1998”, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, Represented by Brown/Grotta Gallery, 1998
  • “Contemporary Georgia Fiber: Five Perspectives”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, 1998
  • “Twentieth Century American and European Art”(permanent collection), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998
  • “Contemporary Fiber Art” (a two person show with Edward Lambert) Gainesville College Art Gallery, Gainesville, Georgia, 1998
  • “Photo Synthesis: Photography as an Element in Contemporary Southern Art”, ArtWalk at Lenox Square, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998
  • “Converging Cultures”, The Center of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, 1999
  • “Handmade: Shifting Paradigms” Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 1999
  • “Lamar Dodd School of Art Celebrates 2000”, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, Georgia, 2000
  • “Meditations: Japanese Fiber Traditions Today”, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, Virginia, 2000
  • “Contemporary Trends in fiber arts”, Gray Gallery, School of art, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 2001
  • “UGA/Dong-A University Fiber Exchange Exhibition”, Lyndon House Art Center,  Athens, Georgia, 2001
  • “Prints by Georgia Artists”, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2001
  • “SOFA New York 2002 Expo”, browngrotta Arts, New York, New York, 2002
  • “browngrotta arts Group Show”, HBO Gallery, New York, New York, 2002
  • “Eloquent Threads: Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection”, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002
  • “Fiber Arts Today”, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002
  • “2002 Busan Textile Fashion Art Festival (Art to Design, Design to Art)”, Busan Exhibition and Convention Center, Busan, South Korea, 2002
  • “New Works for the New RAM: Acquisitions for RAM Inaugural Year, Racine Art Museum,  Racine, Wisconsin, 2004-2005
  • “East Meets West: The Contemporary Asian Aesthetic in RAM’s Collection”, Racine Art Museum, WI, 2005-2006
  • “Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works”, Chicago Cultural Center, IL, 2006
  • “12th International Triennial of Tapestry”, Lodz, Poland, 2007 (Selected as 1 of 5 Americans.)
  • “Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art” 2008 – 10; Atlanta History Center; Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft; Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; Pensacola Museum of Art, FL; Asheville Art Museum, NC; Sumter County Gallery of Art, SC; Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, AL; Louisiana Art & Science Museum; Hattiesburg Historic Train Depot, MS
  • “Seamless” (a four-person show), One Twelve Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2011
  • “Without Borders”, “Kaunakes GAO”, Craft Alliance, St Louis, 2012
  • “Without Boundaries: Transformations in American Craft”, Craft Alliance Delmar Loop Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2012
  • “Cross Sections” “Chronicle @ MoMAK 1963 – 2013”, 50th Anniversary show, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, 2 works from permanent collection, Japan, 2013
  • “The Kyoto: Textile Miniatures”, GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2015
  • “Precious Metals: Shining Examples from RAM’s Collection”, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, 2016
  • “Crossing Generations: Past, Present & Future”, Oregon College of Arts and Craft, Portland, OR, 2017
  • “Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, 2018
  • “A Chronicle of Modern Crafts: Works from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Collection”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 2021
  • “2nd Collection Gallery Exhibition: The Crafts of Ornament and Apparel”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 2022-2023
  • “Acclaim! Work by Award-Winning International Artists”, BrownGrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, 2023
  • “Collection & Innovation”, Gallerie h2O, Kyoto, Japan, 2023
  • “Miniature Works – The Kyoto – Vol. 3”, Gallery NEUTRAL, Kyoto, Japan, 2024

WORK IN COLLECTIONS

 

EXHIBITIONS AND PANELS SERVED AS A JUROR

  •  “Craft Dimensions Canada,” Royal Ontario Museum, 1969
  • “Indiana Crafts,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1969
  • “Southwest Craft Exhibition,” International Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1971
  • “Wichita Decorative Arts Exhibition,” Wichita Art Association, September 1972
  • “Kansas Designer-Craftsmen Exhibition,” Lawrence, Kansas, January 1973
  • “Canadian National Crafts Exhibition,” Canadian Guild of Crafts, Ontario, Toronto, 1975
  • “Fiber: Structures,” International Competition, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1975
  • “St. Louis Spring Craft Market,” American Craft Enterprises, New Paltz, New York, 1978
  • Panelist, Crafts Workshops/Exhibition Aid, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1978
  • “14th Biennial Exhibition,” Creative Crafts Council, Washington, DC, 1980
  • North Carolina Arts Council, Artists Fellowship Panel, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1980
  • “New Mexico Crafts ‘8l,” The Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico, 1981
  • “Space Sails: American Banners,” Midland Art Council, Midland, Michigan, 1985
  • “3rd Itami Craft Competition,” Itami Craft Center, Osaka, Japan, 1991
  • Visual Artists Fellowships, Crafts Panel, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, 1992
  • “ITNET 4: Tapestries 40/100”, Anchorage, Alaska, 1998
  • Surface Design Association 11th International Conference Student Exhibition, Kansas  City, Missouri, 2000
  • 19th Smithsonian Craft Show, Juror, Washington, DC, 2000
  • “2004 Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition” Juror, Meridian Museum of Art, MS, 2004
  • “Fiber Artistry – Journey of Imagination”, Juror, udgensHudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA 2009
  • “Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends”, Juror, School of Art, University of Georgia, 2014
  • “Fiber Hawaii”, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, 2016

PROFESSIONAL FABRIC DESIGN EXPERIENCE

  •  Dorothy Liebes Design Studio, New York, Staff Designer, 1960-61
  • General Motors Corp., Detroit, Design Consultant, Art in Research Program, 1963-64
  • Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp., New York, Fiberglass Development Project, 1964
  • Uniroyal, New York, Polycrest Development Project, 1965
  • Regal Rugs, Inc., North Vernon, Indiana, Designer, 1966-82
  • Northern Petrochemical Company, Illinois, Consultant, 1972-73
  • Tennessee Arts Commission, Consultant in planning for fiber program at Tennessee Crafts  Center, 1974
  • Surface Design Association, Chairman, Southeast Regional Conference, University of  Georgia, October 1977
  • Symposium Leader, National Surface Design Conference, Purdue University, April 1978
  • Coordinator, Two competitive regional fiber exhibitions, “Fibrations,” Athens, May 1979
  • Workshop Coordinator, Southeast Regional Surface Design Conference, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, October 1981. NEA Short Crafts Workshop Grant, Project Director
  • Surface Design Association, Consultant for National Conference, 1983
  • Consultant, Juraku International Textile Center, Kyoto, Japan, 1984-88

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

  • University of Houston, Department of Art, Lecture, 1972
  • Handweavers of Texas, Houston, Workshop, 1972
  • Textile Museum, Washington, DC, Lecture, 1972
  • University of Kansas, Department of Design, Lawrence, Workshop and Lecture, 1973
  • Clemson University, Department of Textiles, Lecture, 1973
  • Houston Weaver’s Guild, Houston, Texas, Workshop, 1973
  • Richmond Weaver’s Guild, Virginia, Workshop, 1973
  • Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Lecture, 1973
  • Potomac Craftsmen, Washington, DC, Workshop, 1973
  • Textile Museum, Washington, DC, Lecture, 1973
  • Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Workshop, 1974
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Workshop, 1974
  • Arts and Crafts Center, Pittsburgh, Workshop and Lecture, 1974
  • Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Lecture, 1975
  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Workshop, 1975
  • Rice University, Houston, Lecture, 1975
  • Southwest Crafts Center, San Antonio, Texas, Workshop, 1975
  • The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware, Art Conservation Program, Lectures and Workshop, 1975
  • Congressional Branch, Embroiderer’s Guild, Washington, DC, Workshop, 1975
  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Workshop, 1977
  • North Central Surface Design Conference, Indiana Central University, Indianapolis, Lecture, 1977
  • University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Workshop and Lecture, 1978
  • Bunka Gakuin, Tokyo, Japan, Lecture, 1979
  • American Center, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1979
  • Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Lecture, 1979
  • American Center, Bombay, India, Lecture, 1979
  • National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, Lecture, 1979
  • Potomac Craftsmen, Washington, DC, Lecture, 1980
  • Greenwood Gallery/Montgomery College, Maryland, Workshop, 1980
  • Columbia Museum, Columbia, SC, Workshop, 1980
  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, Workshop, 1981
  • Surface Design Conference, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, Lecture, 1981
  • Crafts Center, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, Lecture, 1981
  • Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1983
  • Kyoto Fine Arts College, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1983
  • Nagoya Fine Arts College, Nagoya, Japan, Lecture, 1983
  • Kyoto American Center, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1984
  • Temari Center for Pacific Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, Lecture, 1984
  • Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1985
  • Seian Women’s Junior College, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1985
  • Osaka Designers College, Osaka, Japan, Lecture and Workshop, 1985
  • Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, Symposium, The Flexible Medium, Lecture, 1985
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines, Lecture, 1985
  • The Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa, Lecture, 1986
  • Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1986
  • Fukoka American Center (USIS), Fukoka, Japan, Lecture, 1986
  • Fiberworks, Berkeley, California, Lecture, 1987
  • University of California-Davis, Lecture, 1987
  • Fukuoka American Center (USIS), Fukuoka, Japan, Lecture, 1987
  • Sapporo American Center (USIS), Sapporo, Japan, Lecture, 1987
  • Honolulu Academy of Art, Hawaii, Lecture, 1987
  • University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Lecture, 1987
  • Kawai Juku, Craft Department, Tokyo, Japan, Lecture, 1988
  • Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, Lecture, 1988
  • Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1988
  • Seian Women’s Junior College, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1988
  • University of Hawaii – Hilo, Lecture, 1988
  • John F. Kennedy University, San Francisco, California, Lecture, 1989
  • Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1989
  • Duk Sung University, Seoul, Korea, Lecture, 1989       
  • Korea Fiber Arts Association, Seoul, Lecture, 1990
  • Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea, Lecture, 1990
  • Musashino Fine Arts, University, Tokyo, Japan, Lecture, 1990
  • Tama Fine Arts University, Tokyo, Japan, Lecture, 1990
  • Osaka Fine Arts University, Osaka, Japan, Lecture, 1990
  • Kamashima Textile School, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1990
  • Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, 1990
  • The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, Lecture, 1991
  • University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Lecture, 1991
  • University of Washington, Seattle, National Surface Design
  • Association Conference, Keynote Address, 1991
  • Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College, Georgia, Lecture, 1992
  • The Institute of Technology MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia, Lecture, 1992
  • National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Lecture, 1992
  • Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan, Lecture, 1992
  • The Cleveland Institute of Art, Lecture, “Architecture as Symbol”, 1993
  • American Center, Taegu, Korea, Lecture, “American Fiber Art”, 1993
  • American Center, Kwang-ju, Korea, Lecture, “American Fiber Art”, 1993
  • American Center, Seoul, Korea, Lecture, “Architecture as Symbol”, 1993
  • Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea, Lecture, “American Fiber Art”, 1993
  • Dong-A University, Busan, Korea, Seminar and Lecture, “American Fiber Art”, 1993
  • Musashino University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan, Workshop, “Textiles in the Environment” and Lecture, “Architecture as Symbol”, 1993
  • Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, Lecture, “American Fiber Art”, 1993
  • Busan Institute of Arts, Busan, Korea, Lecture, “Architecture as Symbol”, 1994
  • Busan National University, Korea, Lecture, “Architecture as Symbol”, 1994
  • Bunka Fashion College, Tokyo, Japan, Lecture, “Architecture as Symbol”, 1994
  • Tokyo Zokei University of Art, Lecture, “Architecture as Symbol”, 1994
  • Utatsuyama Kobo (craft workshop), Kanazawa City, Japan, Lecture, “Architecture as  Symbol”, and Workshop, “Metal Leaf Application”, 1994
  • Seian University of Art and Design, Shiga Prefecture (Kyoto) Japan, Lecture,  “Contemporary Fiber Art: American and Japan”, Lecture and Workshop, “The Net – Historic and Contemporary Uses”, 1995
  • Dong Ah University, Busan, Korea, Lecture, “Contemporary International Fiber Art:  The Last 25 Years”, 1995
  • Busan Women’s University, Busan, Korea, Lecture, “Contemporary International Fiber Art: The Last 25 Years”, 1995
  • Ulsan University, Ulsan, Korea, Lecture, “Contemporary International Fiber Art: The Last 25 Years”, 1995
  • University of Hawaii-Manoa, School of Art, Honolulu, Lecture, “Architecture as Symbol”, 1996
  • “Reflections East/West: Two Fiber Artists Discuss Their Work”, Japan Society, New  York, 1998
  • “Reflections East/West”, Lecture, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998
  • “Personal Reflections”, Lecture, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, 1999
  • “International Influences”, Panel Discussion, State University of West Georgia, 1999
  • “New Weaving”, Lecture, Kawashima Textile School, Kyoto, Japan, 2000
  • “Caring for Crafts”, Panel Discussion, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2000
  • “Reflections: Recent Work”, Lecture, Visiting Artist Lecture, School of Art, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 2001
  • “Thirty Years of Fiber work: Glen Kaufman”, Lecture, Kawashima Textile School, Kyoto, Japan, 2001
  • “Recent Work: Glen Kaufman”, Lecture, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, 2001
  • “Fiber Projects With Recycled Fabrics” Workshop, Textile Program, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan 2001
  • “Nature of Materials”, Workshop, Kawashima Textile School, Kyoto, Japan, 2003, 2004
  • “A Material Question” Panelist, Renwick Alliance, Museum of American Art, DC, 2014
  • “Installation Art: A Personal Journey”, Lecture, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, 2016
  • “Installation Art: A Personal Journey”, Lecture, Gallerie 103, Kauai, HI, 2016

PUBLICATIONS

  • Design on Fabrics, with Meda Johnston, Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York, 1967 (history, design and techniques of fabric decoration with dyes and pigments). Paperback edition, 1976. Second edition, 1981 (Revisions and additions by Glen Kaufman)
  • “Review of Young Americans,” Craft Horizons, June 1977
  • “Surface Design Southeast, ACC-NC ’77,” Surface Design Journal, Fall 1977
  • “Surface Design Extends Its Vocabulary,” American Craft, June/July 1980.
  • “Japan Impressions,” Senshoku to Seikatsu, Kyoto, Japan, Fall 1980.
  • “Japan Impressions Part I,” Surface Design Journal, Winter 1980
  • “Japan Impressions Part II,” Spring 1981
  • “Surface Design as Fiber Art in the United States,” Senshoku to Seikatsu, Kyoto, Japan, Spring 1981
  • “Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing” Book Review, Surface Design Journal, Winter 1983
  • “The Future Is In the Past,” Kawashina Magazine, Kyoto, Japan, Fall 1984
  • “Surface to Structure,” Surface Design Journal, Fall 1984
  • “Two Surface Designers from Atlanta,” Senshoku Alpha, Kyoto, Japan, August 1987
  • “International Textile Fair ’87 Kyoto, Japan,” Surface Design Journal, Spring 1988
  • “Mood Indigo: The Creative Genius of Hiroyuki Shindo,” Surface Design Journal, Winter 1988
  • “Fields of Indigo & White: The Shibori Kimono of Japan” catalog essay, Georgia Museum of Art, August, 1989
  • Glen Kaufman Reflections–East and West, exhibition catalog. The Office, Kyoto, Japan, 1991
  • “The 4th International Textile Competition ’94 Kyoto,” Surface Design Journal, Spring, 1995
  • “The Gleam of Gold,” Surface Design Journal, Fall, 1995
  • “Surface Design in Japan”, Surface Design Journal, Winter, 1997
  • Book Review, “Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now”, Fiberarts, September/October, 2002
  • “Tetsuo Fujimoto”, Surface Design Journal, Fall, 2005
  • “The Openess of Machiko Agano”. Surface Design Journal, Fall 2009
  • “White on White in White, Kyoto”, Textile Forum, Summer 2010
  • “Jorie Johnson: Japanese Import”, Surface Design Journal, Winter 2010

WORK ILLUSTRATED

  •  “The Red Fan,” “Untitled,” and “Lunar Totem” illustrated by Virginia I. Harvey, Color and Design in Macrame (New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1967), figs. C-3 & C-4, 5-29 & 6-34
  • “Cross of Linen” illustrated by Ruth Kaufmann, The New American Tapestry (New York, NY: Reinhold Book Corp., 1968), pl. 8.
  • “Introspection” illustrated by Rose Slivka, Aileen O. Webb and Margaret Merwin Patch, The Crafts of the Modern World (New York, NY: Horizon Press, 1968), pl. 286
  • “Nineteen-Sixty-Eight Totem” illustrated by Lee Nordness, Objects: USA (New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1970), p. 346
  • “Scutum” illustrated by Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen, Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric (New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972), p. 69
  • “Dark Moon” illustrated by Ed Rossbach, The New Basketry (New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1976), fig. 29
  • “White Maize Glove,” “Mino Study/White,” and “Polycloak” illustrated by Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen, The Art Fabric: Mainstream (New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1980), p. 135, p. 252, p. 253
  • “Kyoto: Nishijin Series VI” illustrated by Paul J. Smith, Craft Today Poetry of the Physical (New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986), fig. 46
  • “The Knights” illustrated by Jack Lenor Larsen with Betty Freudenheim, Interlacing, the Elemental Fabric (New York, NY: Kodansha Intl., 1987), fig. 3
  • “Kyoto/Golden Forest” illustrated in “Gallery/Fiber,” American Craft, June/July 1988, p. 110, fig. 17
  • “Kyoto Rooftop: Nishijin II” and “Golden Tree/Kino V” illustrated by Mildred Constantine and Laurel Reuter, Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans. (Grand Forks, ND: North Dakota Museum of Art, 1988) figs. 22 & 24
  • “Kyoto Rooftop: Nishijin II” illustrated by Asada Shuji in Gendai Some (Contemporary Dyeing) (Tokyo: Shibundo Co. 1990) p. 64
  • “Window View Daitokuji-Cho” illustrated in “NEA Fellowships 1990,” American Craft, December 1990/January 1991, p. 26
  • “Kawashima TS/Ichihara” illustrated in “Perspectives from the Rim,” Surface Design Journal, Spring 1991, p. 38
  • “Wrapped Glove” illustrated in “In Our Hands”, exhibition catalog, (Nagoya, Japan: Sinkol Col Ltd., 1991) pp. 20-21
  • “White Maize Glove” and “Kyoto Rooftop: Kita-Ku”, illustrated in “Small Works in Fiber:   The Collection of Mildred Constantine”, exhibition catalog, (Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993) pp. 33, 48, 49
  • “Endangered Cities: Kyoto I” illustrated in “Gallery”, American Craft, October/November 1996, p. 104
  • “Pulguk-Sa, Kyong-Ju” illustrated in Threads-Fiber Art in the 90’s exhibition catalog,  (New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, 1997), p. 7
  • Reflections/Visions – Precious Metals in Textiles, exhibition catalog (Georgia State University, School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta 1997)
  • “Triptych: Hitaro in America” and “Endangered Cities: Kyoto I (Nishijin)”, illustrated in “The 10th Wave/Part II: Textiles and Fiber Wall Sculpture”, exhibition catalog,  (Wilton, CT: Brown/Grotta Gallery, 1997), pp. 12, 13, 30, 31
  • “Broken City: Kyoto/Jofukuji” and “Ryukyu Mura II” illustrated in “Fiberworks”, exhibition catalog, (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, Sarratt Gallery, 1997)
  • “Urban Fault Lines/Kyoto” illustrated in Handmade: Shifting Paradigms, exhibition catalog (Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 1999), pp. 37
  • “Istana / Sri Menati”, illustrated in American Craft, June/July 2000, p. 73
  • “Kyoto Rooftop: Nishijin II” illustrated in Fiberarts, November/December, 2002, p. 47
  • “Kaunakes: Ghosts of Mesopotamia”, illustrated in exhibition catalog, 12th International  Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland, 2007
  • “Without Borders”, “Kaunakes GAO”, exhibition catalog, Craft Alliance, St Louis, 2012
  • “A Chronicle of Modern Crafts: Works from the National Museum of Modern  Art, Kyoto Collection”, exhibition catalog, (Kyoto, Japan: The National Museum of Modern Art, 2021), p. 250

REVIEWS/ARTICLES/BOOKS

  •  Fred Schwarz, “Glen Kaufman,” Craft Horizons, 27 (January/February 1967), pp. 16-18
  • Janet Koplos, “The Garment Form as Image,” Fiberarts, (November/December 1983), p. 66-67
  • “Gloves a la carte Glen Kaufman,” Kateigaho (October 1984), pp. 188-189
  • Zoe Woodruff Lancaster, “Glen’s Gloves: A Kaufman Retrospective,” Fiberarts (September/October 1985), p. 41.
  • “Japan Expressed Through American Eyes,” The Hokkaido Times, Japan, (November 18, 1987)
  • M. G. Edwards, “Textile Industry Looks for Inspiration,” The Japan Times (November 27, 1987), p. 17
  • Toshio Tanaka, “Tradition and Today Live Together,” Kyoto Shimbun (October 19, 1987)
  • Tomio Sagaya, “Imagination Incorporated into Nishijin Weaving: The Works of An American Surface Designer,” Senshoku Alpha (March 1988), pp. 53-55
  • Betsy Sterling Benjamin with Stephen Blumrich, “Artist Studio Collaborative Kyoto,  Japan,” Surface Design Journal (Spring 1988), pp. 12-13
  • Janet Koplos, “Ideas Flow at Kyoto Textile Conference,” Fiberarts (1988 No. 1), pp. 49 & 51
  • Carolyn Price Dyer, “GLEN KAUFMAN: A Synthesis of Two Worlds,” Fiberarts, (Summer 1989), P. 31
  • Tomio Sugaya, “Columbus and the Egg,” Sansai (October, 1989), p. 132
  • Jeon Myung – Ok, “A Fiber Artist Introduces His Work,” Monthly Crafts, (October,  1989), p. 17
  • “Fields of Indigo and White: Shibori Kimono Exhibit at the Georgia Museum of Art,”   Fiberarts, (November/December, 1989), p. 62
  • Jeon Myung-Ok, “Visual Experiences Through Grids: American Fiber Artist Glen Kaufman (Speaks About His Work),” Monthly Crafts, (December, 1989), pp. 32-34
  • “The Dyeing Flower,” Hali, (February, 1990), p. 49
  • MaryPaul Yates, “Pacific Inspiration: The Textiles of Glen Kaufman”, American Craft, (August/September, 1991) pp. 40-45
  • Pamela Blume Leonard, “Sophistication, use of grid define 5 aritsts’ fiber works”, The Atlanta Constitution (Friday, January 22, 1993), p. F2
  • Onaran, E.A. (Editor), Who’s Who in American Art 1993-94 20th Edition, (R.R. Bowker  a Reed Reference Publishing Co., 1993), p. 611
  • Westphall, Katherine (Intro), The Surface Designer’s Art: Contemporary Fabric Printers, Painters and Dyers, (Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1993) Artist’s statement and 7 works illustrated in color, pp. 76-81.
  • Patricia Malarcher, “Men in Fiber Art”, Fiberarts (November/December, 1993), pp. 47-51.
  • Kiyoji Tsuji, “Narrative in Japanese Fiber Art, Interview with Glen Kaufman”, Senshoku Alpha (November 1995) pp. 50-53.
  • Marquis Who’s Who in the South and Southwest 24th Edition, (Read Reference Publishing Co. 1995).
  • Heather Allen, “Architecture in Textiles”, Surface Design Journal, (Summer 1997), pp. 4-7.
  • Dorothy Joiner, “Reflections/Visions: Glen Kaufman and Junco Sato Pollack”, Surface Design Journal, (Fall 1977), pp. 35-36.
  • Nouvel Object V, Essay on Artist, “Window, and Mist of Asia”, (Design House Publishers, Seoul S Korea, 2000) pp. 274-279.
  • Marquis Who’s Who in America 2005 Edition, (Read Reference Publishing Co. 2005).
  • Pamela Blume Leonard, “Textile art interweaves East and West”, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution (Friday, March 1, 2002) p. F6
  • Marquis Who’s Who in America 57th Edition, (Read Reference Publishing Co. 2006).
  • Lauren Whitley, Threads on the Edge: The Daphne Farago Fiber Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2002.
  • Janet Koplos & Bruce Metcalf, Makers A History of American Studio Craft, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2010, pp. 426-7.
  • Jorie Johnson, “Jeans Festival“, Surface Design Journal, (Spring 2011), pp. 62-63.
  • Rhonda Brown, “Glen Kaufman: An Art Odyssey“, Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot (Winter 2023), pp. 42-47.

Obituary

Glen Franklin Kaufman, 87, UGA Professor of Art Emeritus, passed from this life on Jan 16, 2020 following a short debilitating illness.  A resident of Athens, Big Canoe and Kyoto, Japan he was proceeded in death in 1983 by Charlene Page Kaufman, his beloved wife of 29 years.

Born in Fort Atkinson, WI on Oct 28, 1932 to Eli and Elynor (née Jensik) Kaufman he grew up in the neo-Tudor house his father hand built. A graduate of Fort Atkinson High School, he entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison on an Air Force ROTC scholarship and there met the love of his life Charlene Page. Immediately following graduation with honors, they were married in Kalamazoo, MI (1954). Stationed to Lockbourne AFB in Columbus, OH, he served in the pilot education office for Strategic Air Command. Following transition to the reserves, he entered the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, earning an MFA in Weaving & Textiles (1959) and was a Fulbright Scholar at the State School of Arts & Crafts, Copenhagen, Denmark (1960).

Upon return to the US, he worked as a designer for Dorothy Liebes in New York City before returning to Cranbrook to head the Fiber Department. It was during this tenure that son Page was born (1962), and the family adopted their beloved Old English Sheepdog “Pip,” who became famous around Athens for taking in the wind and views through the open top of Char’s VW Beatle.

Hired to UGA by Lamar Dodd (1967), he quickly rose to the ranks of full Professor (1972) and subsequently spent a year as a Visiting Artist at the Royal College of Art, London (1976). During his 40-year tenure at UGA, he received numerous grants, including: NEA (1976, 80, 81, 82, 83, 90), Ford Foundation (1979), Georgia Council for the Arts (1991), and UGA Research Foundation (1992, 96). His numerous honors and Awards include: Honorary Life Member, Surface Design Assoc. (1983), UGA Research Medal (1988), Fellow, American Craft Council (1988), UGA M.G. Michael Award (1991), UGA Albert Christ-Janer Award for Creative Research (1992), Phi Beta Delta (1992), Study Abroad Director of the Year (2004), and Smithsonian Institution of the National Galleries of American Art James Renwick Distinguished Educator Award (2014).

His work appeared in more than 60 solo exhibitions in New York, Boston, Kyoto, Berkeley, Tokyo, Sapporo, Honolulu, San Francisco, Osaka, Nagoya, Seattle, Seoul, Busan, Atlanta and more than 130 group exhibitions in North America, Europe and Asia. His works are in the permanent collections of more than 20 museums, including the Museum of Art and Design, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago; Ba Tang Gol Art Center, Seoul; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Juraku Museum, Kyoto, Japan; Long House Foundation, East Hampton, NY; H.M. de Young Museum, San Francisco; Smithsonian Institution, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC; Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL; and S.C. Johnson Collection, OBJECTS, Washington, DC. He served as a consultant/designer for numerous entities including: GM, Owens-Corning, Uniroyal, Regal Rugs, Northern Petrochemical, Surface Design Assn., and Juraku Int’l Textile Ctr. He presented at more than 90 lectures and workshops around the world and authored Design on Fabrics – a seminal reference on surface design – along with more than 30 articles in professional periodicals. Since 1983 he spent 4-6 months a year at his residence in Kyoto, Japan as a revered expert in Japanese fabric design techniques.

Survivors include beloved son and daughter-in-law Page & Jeanne Kaufman of Flowery Branch, grandson Lt. Lee Kaufman (USN) of Silverdale, WA, sister Karol Berhow (John) of Trinity, TX, nephew Kurk Anderson (Paula) of Kohler, WI, nieces Kris Anderson Lent of Potoski, MI and Kari Anderson of Whitewater, WI, cousin Vergene Kaufman Lueder of Whitewater, WI and dear and beloved friends, students and colleagues the world over.

The family will receive friends on Monday, Jan 27 from 6 to 7:30pm followed by a Rosary at Bernstein Funeral Home, 3195 Atlanta Hwy, Athens. A Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, Jan 28 at 10:30am at the Chapel of St. Joseph’s Catholic School, 958 Epps Bridge Pkwy, Athens (Note that seating in the School Chapel is limited). A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, Feb 16 at 2pm at the UGA Chapel, 109 Herty Dr, Athens, followed by a reception at the College of Environment & Design, 285 S. Jackson St, Athens. Parking is at the North Campus Deck.