Sean Salstrom
Instructor
Sean Salstrom approaches making through action, object and performance and seeks out the poetic through absurdity, temporality, instantaneity and perceptual phenomena. He has a keen interest in glass’ ability to collaborate with light and partakes in hand grinding optical components for telescopes in pursuit of far-looking. He has held full-time academic posts at the Toyama City Institute of Glass Art in Japan, the Akita University of Art also in Japan, and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, galleries and artist spaces, most recently at the Ladd Observatory at Brown University. He has been a Smithsonian Artist Research Fund nominee and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award nominee and has received the Irvin Borowsky Prize in Glass Juror’s Choice Award.
