Carol Milne
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Carol Milne (born 1962) is an American artist, best known for her unique technique of "knitted glass," which combines elements of traditional knitting with cast glass sculpture. Based in Seattle, Washington, Milne has exhibited her work internationally{{cite web |url=http://carolmilne.com/whatsnew2011.html#Kanazawa |title=What's New in glass sculpture – 2011 |work=carolmilne.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017010400/http://www.carolmilne.com/whatsnew2011.html#Kanazawa |archivedate=2012-10-17 }}
[https://archive.today/20130415124846/http://competition.okcj.org/pub/end/t1.html 2 Honorable Mentions, Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition, Cheongju, Republic of Korea][http://www.uvu.edu/museum/exhibitions/2011_exhibit_archive.html Honorable Mention purchase award, Art of Our Century, UVU Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923125349/http://www.uvu.edu/museum/exhibitions/2011_exhibit_archive.html |date=September 23, 2012 }} and is recognized for her contributions to contemporary glass art.{{cite web|url=http://artisttrust.org/index.php/award-winners/artist-profile/carol_milne|title=Artist Profile – Artist Trust|work=artisttrust.org|access-date=2012-10-06|archive-date=2012-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029153024/http://artisttrust.org/index.php/award-winners/artist-profile/carol_milne|url-status=dead}} Her sculptures have been featured in galleries and museums{{cite web|title=Lucent: A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Glass 2007|publisher=Glass Art Association of Canada|url=http://www.glassartcanada.ca}} and have been the subject of interviews{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABCUuztvtI&t=309s |title=Fiberchats interview, #76 |date=2021-11-23 |author=Phillip Townsend |website=YouTube}} and media coverage,{{cite web |url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/explore/?_keywords=carol%20milne |title=Carol Milne Knitted Glass Work |website=This is Colossal}} highlighting her distinctive approach to the medium.{{cite web|url=http://enermazing.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/knitting-with-glass-impossible/|title=Knitting With Glass – Impossible!? – Create The World You Want|work=Create The World You Want|date=5 October 2011 }}
Education
Carol Milne was born in Canada and spent her first 18 years at 18 different addresses. She received a degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph, but realized in her senior year that she was more interested in sculpture than landscape. Her senior thesis, “Landscape as Art/Art as Landscape,” drew her into the realm of sculpture and the dye was cast. She attended two years of graduate school in sculpture at the University of Iowa, where she learned about metal casting and experimented with glass. She has been working as a sculptor ever since.
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...":[http://www.carolmilne.com/images/Knitting_glass_HI.pdf Fiberarts Magazine Summer Issue 2011] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018155643/http://www.carolmilne.com/images/Knitting_glass_HI.pdf |date=October 18, 2012 }} 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.
"Carol Milne has blazed a new artistic path with her work in knitted
glass. Bringing the visual illusion of softness and drape to a
material that is fixed in its final form, her work has a wow factor
that encourages you to take a closer look at the nuances of her
Licton Springs Park
File:Licton Springs Playground.jpeg
From 1993 to 1996, Milne re-designed the Licton Springs, Seattle Playground in Seattle,[http://www.seattle.gov/arts/_downloads/art_plans/NorthgateArtPlan.pdf DPD – Northgate Public Art Plan – City of Seattle] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728110404/http://www.seattle.gov/arts/_downloads/art_plans/NorthgateArtPlan.pdf |date=July 28, 2012 }} 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 has worked primarily in glass, although knitting also plays a major part in her non-glass sculptures. See, for example, "Grow Lights".{{cite web|url=http://www.bellevuewa.gov/bellwether2012.htm|title=Arts Program|work=bellevuewa.gov}}{{cite web |url=http://www.carolmilne.com/videos.html |title=Bellwether 2012 – Mighty Tieton |work=carolmilne.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016211909/http://www.carolmilne.com/videos.html |archivedate=2012-10-16 }}
Recognition
- Amazon Artist in Residence, Amazon Headquarters, Seattle, WA, 2019
- Juror's award, “All Things Considered 9: Basketry in the 21st Century”, NBO; 2017
- 1 Special Citation & 1 Honorable Mention, 9th Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition, Cheongju, Republic of Korea, 2015
- Joan Eliot Sappington Award, “On the Fringe: Today’s Twist on Fiber Art”, Lake Oswego Fest.of the Arts, 2015
- 2 Honorable Mentions, Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition, Cheongju, Republic of Korea, 2011
- Honorable Mention purchase award, Art of Our Century, UVU Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT{{cite web|url=http://www.uvu.edu/museum/exhibitions/2011_exhibit_archive.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-10-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923125349/http://www.uvu.edu/museum/exhibitions/2011_exhibit_archive.html |archivedate=2012-09-23 }}
- Silver Prize, International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Japan, 2010
- Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Award, Artist's Trust, Seattle, WA, 2007
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! – Glass Knitting, 2015
Permanent Collections
- Amazon Headquarters, Seattle, WA
- Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
- Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
- Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
- Glasmuseum Lette, Coesfeld, Germany
- Glass Museum of Charleroi, Belgium
- The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey
- Gustav Selter GmbH & Co KG, Germany
- The Kamm Teapot Foundation, Sparta, NC
- MusVerre Nord, Sars Poteries, France
- Notojima Glass Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan
- UVU Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT all above{{Cite web|url=https://www.carolmilne.com/carolmilne-cv|title=Carol Milne — CV|website=Carol Milne|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-16}}
Articles and interviews
File:Knitted glass color experiment 2016.png
Woven Glass: Artist Carol Milne knits delicate sculptures{{Cite web|url=https://www.realchangenews.org/2019/09/18/woven-glass-artist-carol-milne-knits-delicate-sculptures|title=Woven Glass: Artist Carol Milne knits delicate sculptures|website=www.realchangenews.org|language=en|access-date=2019-11-16}}
Artbeat NW 10-08-19 Glass Artist Carol Milne Artbeat Northwest Arts and Culture Podcast{{Cite web|url=https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/ARTbeat-Northwest-p1191381/|title=Listen to Artbeat Northwest on TuneIn|website=TuneIn|language=en-us|access-date=2019-11-16}}
Seattle Magazine Arts and Culture. Amazon Studios: Inside the Tech Giant's Employee Art Programs{{Citation|last=Allen|first=Traudi|chapter=Roar Studios|date=2004-12-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t097852|title=Oxford Art Online}}
Books
- In the Name of Love by Carol Milne (E-book){{Cite web|url=https://www.carolmilne.com/availableonline/e-book-in-the-name-of-love-by-carol-milne|title=E-BOOK – In the Name of Love by Carol Milne|website=Carol Milne|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-16}}
- Knitted Glass: Kiln-cast lead crystal bowls by Carol Milne (E-book){{Cite web|url=https://www.carolmilne.com/availableonline/e-book-knitted-glass-kiln-cast-lead-crystal-bowls-by-carol-milne|title=E-BOOK – Knitted Glass: kiln cast lead crystal bowls by Carol Milne|website=Carol Milne|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-16}}
- Glass Slippers by Carol Milne (E-book){{Cite web|url=https://www.carolmilne.com/availableonline/e-book-glass-slippers-by-carol-milne|title=E-BOOK – Glass Slippers by Carol Milne|website=Carol Milne|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-16}}
- Carol Milne Knitted Glass by Steve Isaacson (E-book){{Cite web|url=https://www.carolmilne.com/availableonline/e-book-carol-milne-knitted-glass-by-steve-isaacson|title=E-BOOK Carol Milne Knitted Glass by Steve Isaacson|website=Carol Milne|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-16}}
- Carol Milne Knitted Glass: How Does She Do That? by Steve Isaacson (Paperback){{Cite book|isbn = 978-1482748048|title = Carol Milne Knitted Glass: How Does She do That?|last1 = Isaacson|first1 = Steve|date = 19 March 2013}}
Notable exhibitions
File:Knitted Glass Jitterbug close-up.jpg
;2010
- The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 2010, Design Center Ishikawa, Kanazawa, Japan and Notojima Glass Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan{{cite web |url=http://www.design-ishikawa.jp/glass2010/index.html |title=|glass| 世界唯一のガラス国際公募展 国際ガラス展・金沢2010 the international exhibition of glass kanazawa 2010 |accessdate=2012-10-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703215141/http://www.design-ishikawa.jp/glass2010/index.html |archivedate=2011-07-03 }}
;2011
- 7th Cheongju International Craft Juried Competition, Cheongju, Republic of Korea{{cite web |url=http://competition.okcj.org/main.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-10-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017003257/http://competition.okcj.org/main.html |archivedate=2012-10-17 }}
;2017
- Carol Milne: Knitting Glass, Schiepers Gallery, Hasselt, Belgium{{Cite web|url=https://www.schiepersgallery.com/index_en_tento3.html|title=Schiepers Gallery {{!}} Milne|website=www.schiepersgallery.com|access-date=2019-11-16}}
;2019
;2022
- To Knit or Knot, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC
;2023
- Knotty & Nice, Culture Object Gallery, NY, NY
- Sur Le Fil, MusVerre le Nord, Sars Poteries, France
;2024
- Toyama International Glass Exhibition, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
References
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External links
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- {{official website|http://www.carolmilne.com/}}
- [http://legacy.carolmilne.com Pre-2016 carolmilne.com]
- [http://www.shorelineareanews.com/2012/07/glass-artist-carol-milne-sculpts-with.html Shoreline News – Glass artist Carol Milne sculpts with light for SummerSet Arts Festival]
- [http://www.humorincraft.com/ Humor in Craft] by Brigitte Martin{{deadlink|date=May 2025}}
- [http://www.uvu.edu/museum/ Honorable mention awards were given to Nathan Barnes, Larry Goodin, Carol Milne, and Elizabeth Morisette.]
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Category:Canadian women artists
Category:Canadian glass artists
Category:Pacific Northwest artists