Carol Milne

Carol Milne
Carol Milne in studio working on Grow Lights,^[1] 2012
Website
www.carolmilne.com

Carol Milne is an internationally recognized ^[2]^[3]^[4] Canadian sculptor^[5] living in Seattle, Washington. She is best known for her Knitted Glass work,^[6] winning the Silver Award, in the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa Japan 2010.^[7]

Career

Milne graduated in 1985 from the University of Guelph Ontario, in Landscape Architecture.

After a short stint at a landscape architect's office, Milne worked at a pre-press graphics shop managing a small group of digital typesetters. In 1988-89 she was a graduate student in the University of Iowa's MFA program in sculpture.

Licton Springs Park

Mosaic tile at Licton Springs Park, Seattle, Washington

1993 – 1996, Milne re-designed the Licton Springs, Seattle Playground in Seattle,^[8] Washington. Working with ceramicist Lisa Halverson, and community volunteers, they worked with local school children to make urban wildlife tiles that were incorporated into the park design.

Since 2000, Milne works primarily in glass, although knitting also plays a major part in her non-glass sculptures. See, for example, “Grow Lights”.^[9]^[10]

Knitted Glass

In 2006, Milne created “Knitted Glass”, incorporating the techniques of Knitting, lost-wax casting, mold-making, and kiln-casting. As Milne describes in, “Knitting wasn't yet cool...”:^[11] The process involves (A) knitting the original art piece using wax strands, (B) surrounding the wax with a heat-tolerant refractory material, (C ) then removing the wax by melting it out, thus creating a mold; (D) the mold is placed in a kiln where lead crystal “frit” heated to 1,530 Fahrenheit melts into the mold; (E) after the mold has cooled, the mold material is removed to reveal the finished piece within.

Close-up of 'Jitterbug' - Knitted Glass

Recognition

2 Honorable Mentions, Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Honorable Mention purchase award, Art of Our Century, UVU Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT

Silver Prize, International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Japan, 2010

Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Award, Artist's Trust, Seattle, WA, 2007

'Imperfect For You' - SILVER award winner at The International Exhibition of Glass: Kanazawa 2010

Notable Exhibitions

∗ indicates solo show

2012

10 x 10 x 10 Tieton, Tieton, WA

Bellwether 2012: Artwalk Bellevue, Bellevue, WA

Teapots! 6, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Hot Tea! 13th Biennial Teapot Exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

International Artist Exhibition (online), The Contemporary Glass Society, http://www.cgs.org.uk

2011

7th Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Art of Our Century, UVU Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT

'Knitted Glass' bowl

2010

∗Standing Tall: Towers in Glass, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA

The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 2010, Design Center Ishikawa, Kanazawa, Japan and Notojima Glass Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan

Bellwether 2010: Artwalk Bellevue, Bellevue, WA

Contain: Vessels and the Art of Containment, Luke & Eloy Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

31st Annual Mesa Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

2009

∗Facing the Future, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA

The Perfect Fit – Shoes Tell Stories, The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA: traveled to The Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY; Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, New York; Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID;

Fibers Expanded, Luke and Eloy Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Basket show, Museo Gallery, Langley, WA

2008