Anna Mlasowsky

Last updated January 26, 2026

Anna Mlasowsky (born 1984) is a German artist.^[1] She is known for her experimental and boundary pushing work in glass and is recognized as one of the leading female artist working in glass today.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass (USA) the Toyama Glass Art Museum (Japan), the Castello Sforzesco in Milan (Italy), the Museum of American Glass (USA) the Glasmuseum Ebeltoft(Denmark) the European Museum of Modern Glass (Germany) and the Seto City Art Museum (Japan) .^[2]

Biography

Mlasowsky grew up in East Germany and first encountered glass makers in 2005, while traveling in northern Norway during her European Volunteer Service there. She saw glass makers working in a small village on the Lofoten Islands and the following year she enrolled to study glass at Engelsholm Højskole in Denmark.^[3] She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Glass, in 2011.She has worked as an independent artist, educator and curator since.

In 2016 she completed a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the University of Washington.^[1] She currently lives and works in Seattle, WA, USA.

Anna received an Artist Trust Fellowship in 2017, was one of the Emerging Voices in Craft Shortlist Award recipients and was awarded an Emerging Artist residency at Centrum Foundation. In 2018 she received the Aldo Bellini Award, the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence and was a Museum of Art and Design Burk Prize finalist.

In 2021–2022, Mlasowsky is a Haas Short Term Fellow and Artist in residence at the Science History Institute, studying the history of rare earths.^[4] used in Glass today, the socio-ecologic impact of their extraction, and the way they enable a globalized society.

Awards

2021 Silver Prize, Toyama International Glass Prize, Japan
2019 Chihuly Emerging Artist Award, Seattle, USA
2019 Windgate Award, Suny Purchase College of Art, New York, USA
2018 Aldo Bellini Prize, Castello Sforzesco, Milano, Italy
2018 Finalist: Burke Prize, Museum of Art and Design, NY
2018 „BAM“, Biennial John and Joyce Price- Award of Excellence, Bellevue Arts Museum, USA
2017 Jurors Choice Award, Annual International Irvin Borowksy Prize in Glass, USA
2017 Finalist: Emerging Voices in Craft Awards, American Craft Council, USA
2015 Punch Gallery Award, Members Choice Award, USA
2014 Page Hazelgrove Annual Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2014 TAG Grant, Award for Advancement of Technology in Contemporary Glass, USA
2014 Silver Award Winner: Emerge Competition, Bullseye, USA
2014 Otto Waldrich Prize, Coburg Glass Prize, Germany
2013 UK Glass Prize, 1. Preis, England
2011 Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Projekt Award, Denmark
2011 Finalist: Stanislav Libenski Award, Tschechien
2011 Finalist: European Advancement Award for young Glass, Stadtmuseum Zwiesel, Germany
2010 Kaleidos Award, Upsala, Schweden

Grants

2021 Haas Short Term Research Fellowship, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, USA
2021 Artworks Archive, Accelerator Grant, USA
2021 Awesome Foundation Grant, for “Das Schaufenster“, USA
2020 COVID-19 Relief Grants: The Artist Fellowship, Seattle Artist Relief Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Art, 4Culture Artist Relief, Artist Relief Project
2020 SmArt Venture Grant, Office Of Arts and Culture, Seattle, USA
2019 4Culture, Project Grant, Seattle, USA
2019 Scholarship Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, USA
2017 Artist Trust Fellowship, USA
2016 Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center Residency, USA
2015 Scholarship, Glass Art Society, USA
2015 Scholarship, Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists, USA
2013 IASPIS Grant, Swedish Ministry for Arts and Culture, Sweden
2012 Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass school, USA
2012 Artist Grant, Alexander Tutsek Stiftung, Germany
2011 Penland school of Craft: Isaac & Sonia Luski Scholarship, USA
2010 Danske Nationalbankens Jubilaeumsfond af 1968, Denmark
2009 Augustinus Fonden, Denmark
2009 Student scholarship University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
2008 Scholarship Pilchuck Glass School, USA
2009 Scholarship, The Corning Museum of Glass scholarship, USA
2009 Artist Grant, Ingenör Vald. Selmer Trane og hustru Elisa Tranes Fond, Denmark
2009 Artist Grant, Krista & Viggo Petersens Fond, Denmark

Residencies

2022 Tacoma Museum of Glass, Glass Studio Residency Program
2021 Haas Short-Term Fellow and Artist-in-Residence at the Science History Institute, USA
2021 Visiting Artist residency Tyler School of Art, Glass Department, USA
2021 Innovators in Glass Residency, Pilchuck Glass School, USA
2020 Artist in Residence, Urban Glass, NY University and Pratt Institut New York, USA
2019 Windgate Artist in Residency, Suny Purchase College of Art, New York, USA
2018 Sculpture Space (Utica) Residency, USA
2018 Visiting Artist, University of Hawaii Manoa, Oahu, USA
2017 Emerging Artist Residency Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, USA
2017 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnston, USA
2016 Corning Incorporated Specialty Glass Residency, Corning, USA
2014 Bullseye Resource Center Bay Area Artist in Residence, Emeryville, USA
2013 Artist in Residence, Pittsburgh Glass Center, PA, USA
2013 Artist in Residence, The Glass Factory Museum, Boda, Sweden
2013 The Corning Museum of Glass Studio Residency, Corning, USA
2013 AA2A residency Program, National Glasscenter, University of Sunderland, UK
2012 International Ceramic and Glass Art Exchange Program, Seto, Japan
2011 Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, CGCA residency Fellowship, NJ, USA
2011 Toyama City Institute of Glass Art residency, Toyama, Japan

Selected public lectures and performances

2021 Lecture: “Anders-artig-keit”, Konstfack University of Arts & Design, Sweden
2021 Lecture: “Enabeling Transparency” für das Symposium “Craft Ways-Tending through Craft” Center for Craft and the Warren Wilson College, USA
2019 Host of the Paneldiscussion: Suny Purchase College of Art, NY, USA, on issues faced by female immigrant artists in the US (invited speakers: Sera Boeno, Roxana Fabius, Katya Grokhovsky, Yulia Topchiy)
2018 Lecture: “Behind the Glass“, Corning Museum of Glass, NY, USA
2018 Live-Performance: Bellevue Arts Museum, USA, “Chorus of One”, collaboration with Alethea Alexander and Alexandra Bradshaw-Yerby (University of Washington Dance Department)
2018 Lecture: American Craft Council Salon Series, Minnesota, USA
2017 Lecture: “Technology Advancing Glass”, Glass Art Society, Norfolk, USA
2016 Paneldiscussion: “Technology in Art” Panel, Atoms and Bytes Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, USA
2016 Live-Performance: “Straight Line Thinking”, University of Washington, USA
2015 Paneldiscussion: „kilnforming and new developments“ Bullseye Projects, Portland USA
2015 Live-Performance: of △▽ with Ellen Jing Xu, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, USA
2015 Live-Performance: “Lineage”, Per4m4rum, University of Washington, USA
2014 Lecture: „Page Hazelgrove Lecture“, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
2012 Lecture: „Emerging Artist Lecture“, Glass Art Society, Toledo, USA
2012 Lecture: Program-Seto City Art Museum, Seto, Japan

References

1 2 "Anna Mlasowsky | UW School of Art + Art History + Design" . Retrieved 2021-04-28.
↑ "Residencies | Corning Museum of Glass". www.cmog.org. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
↑ "Glass Lives Interview : Anna Mlasowsky". North Lands Creative. 2020-10-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
↑ "Anna Mlasowsky". Science History Institute. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2021-04-28.

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[2] "Residencies | Corning Museum of Glass". www.cmog.org. Retrieved 2021-04-28.

[3] "Glass Lives Interview : Anna Mlasowsky". North Lands Creative. 2020-10-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.

[4] "Anna Mlasowsky". Science History Institute. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2021-04-28.

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