Welcome to my recently updated webpage! Work made before 2010, will still be accessible by going to my previous webpage: www.reneculler.com.

I have been working in GLASS professionally since 1973, when I showed my work in a juried exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the “May Show.” Back then, I sandblasted original drawings on the surface of blown glass. The award I produce annually for the Musical Arts society of the Cleveland Orchestra illustrates my sandblasting technique and is located in the Commissions section.

In 1988, I enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where I learned to blow and cast glass, and ultimately received my BFA in 1992. After receiving a Governor’s Fellowship Award I enrolled at Kent State University where I investigated work I had begun before graduate studies. I had begun to produce work in glass that was fused within a mold. I called this work that was first blown, assembled, invested in a mold, and then cast; kiln –transformed glass. I received my MFA from Kent State University in 1994. I presented a lecture on the technique of kiln-transformation at the Glass Art Society in 2001, held at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Since that time, I have continued to investigate glass and a variety of methods in which I work and develop to service my ideas. This led to the writing of my book on glass, “Glass Art From the Kiln,” published by Schiffer Publishers in 2010. I am currently engaged in writing my second book, “Imagery in Glass,” also for Schiffer.

Teaching has been an important part of my life. I began teaching in 1992, after receiving my BFA, and continued at Kent State as a graduate teaching assistant. After graduation, I was an adjunct instructor at both the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Kent State University, where I also served as Interim Head of the Glass Department from 1998-2000. I taught workshops nationally and internationally; at the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Glass Furnace in Istanbul, and in Barcelona, Spain. Currently, I am the Glass Program Coordinator at the University of South Alabama. I was selected to develop the Glass Program that opened in the Fall of 2010.

Concurrently, beginning in 1995, I built, operated and owned a private studio in Cleveland, Ohio, the city of which I was a native. Although teaching intermittently in workshops and college settings, I continued to make work in blown glass at the studio- and developed work for the wall that was commissioned and installed throughout the country in corporate settings, libraries, hospitals, law offices, etc. In 2010, my husband Russ and I moved 1,000 miles away to begin a new life in the South in Mobile, AL.

I have two grown children Charley and Grace who live in Cleveland and Detroit, respectively. “Lucky” the rescue dog lives with Russ and me in a lovely 1920’s era neighborhood under a live oak canopy.