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Paul Joseph Stankard | |
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| Born | Paul Joseph Stankard April 7, 1943 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Salem Community College |
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Paul Joseph Stankard is an American artist, flameworker (or 'lampworker') and author.
Paul J. Stankard was born April 7, 1943, as the second of nine children in an Irish Catholic family. He lived in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, in his early years. In his autobiography, Stankard chronicles his early struggles with dyslexia, which made classroom learning difficult. [1] His high school transcripts showed him graduating near the bottom of his class, mistakenly assigned a low IQ score. In the book, Stankard describes the pressure and stigma of being labeled a slow learner by an educational system that at the time was not aware of dyslexia. In 1972 he discovered the concept of dyslexia and started to develop a self-directed learning program that heavily relied on books on tape (audible books). His 50-year learning journey lead to two honorary doctorate degrees and allowed him to overcome his low self-esteem and learning disabilities to become one of the foremost glass artists of his generation.
In 1963 he graduated from Salem County Vocational-Technical Institute (since renamed as Salem Community College), with a technical certification in Scientific Glassblowing Technology. (Later, Salem CC conferred an honorary Associate's Degree in Glass Art.)
For the first nine years of his work career (which included his training at Salem Vocational Technical Institute), he worked as a scientific glassblower crafting laboratory glass apparatus for various chemical laboratories. [2] In 1967, Stankard worked under Francis Whittemore at Philco-Ford, whom he had met earlier while attending Salem, where Whittemore then taught. Earlier memories of seeing the Blaschka flowers at Harvard University and being in contact with Whittemore inspired Stankard to start experimenting with making paperweights in 1969. [3]
Stankard, whose driving desire was to "be on the creative side and do what he loves", started producing glass paperweights in his utility room while working in the industry to support his growing family. It was when Stankard displayed his early paperweights at a craft exhibit on the boardwalk of Atlantic City, New Jersey, that Reese Palley, a respected art dealer, saw his work and sponsored Stankard financially to move full-time into making glass art.
In the early 1960s, paperweights made by other American paperweight makers showcased brightly colored floral designs based on antique French paperweights of the mid-nineteen hundreds. At that time, American paperweights were a weak imitation of the French paperweight tradition. In contrast, Stankard also followed the French tradition but his designs were distinguished by his more refined, botanically accurate characteristics. Stankard labored to make his glass floral designs look more natural and lifelike. His floral designs were becoming more real-looking so many people mistakenly thought that he found a way to encase actual flowers in glass. Soon thereafter, paperweight makers (mostly American) were following Stankard's lead.
Stankard, who is now an internationally acclaimed glass artist, is largely credited with changing the status of glass paperweights from that of "craft" to that of "fine art". Among many other museums, his work is exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, [4] the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; [5] the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; [6] the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France; the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England; The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; WheatonArts and Cultural Center in Millville, New Jersey; the Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts in Dania Beach, Florida; the Akron Art Museum in Akron, Ohio; and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, IN.
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