Resume- Stacy Walters Levinson
Public Art
2012- University Health Systems, Robert B Green Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
Exhibitions
2005- San Antonio’s Emerging Glass Artists, San Antonio, TX
2006- Texas’s Best, Glassworks, San Antonio, TX
2007- Pilchuck Glass School Annual Juried Auction, Seattle, WA
2008- Annual Glass in the Garden, Red Butte Gardens, Salt Lake City, UT
2008- Pilchuck Glass School Annual Juried Auction, Seattle, WA
2009- Annual Glass in the Garden, Red Butte Gardens, Salt Lake City, UT
2009- Pilchuck Glass School Annual Juried Auction, Seattle, WA
2009- Patrick Moore Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (won best of show)
2010- Phoenix Gallery,Annual Invitational, Park City, UT
2010- Hecho a Mano, Guadalupe Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
2011- Hecho a Mano, Guadalupe Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
2012- Hecho a Mano, Guadalupe Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
2012- Anarte Gallery, Christmas Show, San Antonio, TX
2013- Hecho a Mano, Guadalupe Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
2014- Hecho a Mano, Guadalupe Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
2015- Hecho a Mano, Guadalupe Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
2016- Pilchuck Glass School Annual Juried Auction, Seattle, WA
2017- Pilchuck Glass School Annual Juried Auction, Seattle, WA
2018- Pilchuck Glass School Annual Juried Auction, Seattle, WA
2019- Pilchuck Glass School Annual Juried Auction, Seattle, WA
Education
1985- San Antonio College, Associates in Criminal Justice
2003- 2004 Wired Designs, Gail Stouffer, Multiple Kiln Forming Classes. San Antonio, TX
2004- Patty Gray @ Becky Bergsma Studio B- Sinks & Advanced Fusing, Monroe, WA
2005- Bob Leatherbarrow - Powders: Color, Components, and Crackle, Calgary, Canada
2005- Intermediate Kilnforming Seminar, Wired Designs, San Antonio, TX
2006- Lisa Allen & Amy Schlief-Mohr- Pattern Bars & High Fire & Color Theory, Austin, TX
2006- Steve Klein & Jane Bruce- Ways of Thinking-Ways of Making Bella Studios, Denver, CO
2006- Pilchuck Glass School- (3 weeks) Lienore Torre, Cold working, Stanwood, WA
2006- Kirstie Rea, Advanced Kilnforming, Bullseye Glass, Portland, OR
2007- Steve Klein & Jane Bruce- Producing a Series, Vitrum Studios, Laurel, MD
2007- Pilchuck Glass School- (3 Weeks) Mel George & Jeremy Lepisto, Stanwood, WA
2007- Jiri Harcuba & April Surgent, Lathe and Cold working, Bullseye Glass, Portland, OR
2013- University of Texas at San Antonio, BA, Public Administration with Minor in Criminal Justice
2019- Sean Hennessey, Cast Glass Relief Sculpture, Stouffer Studios, Bulverde, TX
Teaching Experience
2006- Intermediate Seminar- 9 weeks- assisted Wired Designs, San Antonio, TX
2006- Patty Gray – assisted, 4 day Workshop- Wired Designs, San Antonio, TX
2007- Patty Gray- assisted, 4 day Workshop- Las Vegas Glass and Bead Show, Las Vegas, NV
2007- Taught a 5 day Sink workshop in my studio in San Antonio, TX
2008- Assisted in 2 day cold working class and 1 day mold making class, Las Vegas Glass and Bead Show
2009- Co-Taught 2 day workshop Glory Hole/Kilnforming, Spectrum Studios, Salt Lake City, UT
2010- Taught 2 1 day workshops Vitrigraph, Spectrum Studios, Salt Lake City, UT
2012- Taught Life Casting 3 day workshop, Wired Designs, San Antonio, TX
2014- Taught Life Casting 3 day workshop, my studio, San Antonio, TX
2016- Taught Life Casting 3 day workshop, my studio, San Antonio, TX
Commissions
2004- Table and Sculpture, Cohen & Berg, San Antonio, TX
2005- Sinks and Tables, Hope Phillips, San Antonio, TX
2005- Sink, Dr. & Mrs. Polsky, San Antonio, TX
2005- Sink, Susan Anderson, San Antonio, TX
2005- Table, Susan Anderson, San Antonio, TX
2005- Multiple Tables, Judy Millspaugh at Glassworks, San Antonio, TX
2006- Sink, Jennifer Eichelbaum, San Antonio, Texas
2006- Signage Las Ramblas, Contessa Hotel, San Antonio, TX
2006- Chandelier, Flux Studios, San Antonio, TX
2007- 2009 Multiple Custom Sinks, Stephanie Thorton at Thorton Homes, Boerne, TX
2008- Signage, Fabian and Clendenin Law Firm, Salt Lake City UT
2009- Bar Countertop, Private Residence, Park City, UT
2010- Table, Sharon Belk, Salt Lake City, UT
2010- Table, Barbara Stone, Salt Lake City, UT
2010- Light Sconce, Tim Daniels, San Antonio, TX
2011- Light Sconces, Sherry Brauslau, San Antonio, TX
2011- Light Sconces, Bob Trevino, San Antonio, TX
2012- Bowl, Tim Daniels, San Antonio, TX
2012- Sink, Joan Sloan, San Antonio, TX
2013- Wall Sculpture, Tim Daniels, San Antonio, TX
2014- Baptismal Font,
2015- Sink, Private Residence, Stephanie Thorton, San Antonio, TX
2015- Sink, Private Residence, San Antonio, TX
2016- Sink, Private Residence, San Antonio, TX
2016- Sink, Private Residence, San Antonio, TX
2016- Bowl, Tim Daniels, San Antonio, TX
2016- Casting of two sisters hands, San Antonio, TX.
2017- Sink, Private Residence, San Antonio, TX.
2018- Sink, Private Residence, San Antonio, TX.
2018- Bowl, Private Residence, San Antonio, TX.
Past Galleries
Glassworks, San Antonio, TX
Wired Designs, San Antonio, TX
Works of the Hand, San Antonio, TX
The Artful Hand, Ft. Worth, TX
Phoenix Gallery, Park City, UT
Bibliography
Work featured in Joy of Coldworkingby Johnathon Schmuck
Stacy's Bio
I am a proud 5th generation Texan, and San Antonio has been home for over 40 years. I began working with glass in 2003, and has traveled the United States and Canada learning from renowned glass artists. I have been blessed to study with world renowned glass artists such as Jiri Harcuba, Liners Torre, April Surgent, Jane Bruce, Steve Klein, Mel George and Jeremy Lepisto, Bob Leatherbarrow, and Kirstie Rea. I have twice been chosen to be one of the privileged glass artists to study at Pilchuck Glass School, and feel honored to have been included in their juried annual auction four times.
I make architectural glass which includes sinks, tabletops, and lighting and signage. I have been commissioned to make numerous signage for Texas businesses. I was commissioned to make a public art piece for the University Health Systems in San Antonio, and am very proud to be included with this art filled hospital.
After working with art glass for over 12 years, I began experimenting with upcycled bottle glass and started developing unique new products. I then formed Texas UpCycle and began selling these products at local art fairs and Texas boutiques. These products are now offered to qualified wholesale accounts. Producing one of kind top quality products is very important to me, and I will continue to strive to discover new ways to upcycle glass. I am proud to offer one of a kind top quality Texas hand crafted goods.
My art bowls are kiln fired four separate times, and then I spend hours on each one lathe working the designs. Each is deeply carved to reveal hidden layers of color, and texture is added to the outside of the bowl. My work seeks to examine the intimate emotional relationships created within the spirit of self. I show this by creating work that has hidden layers, then exposing those hidden layers like exposing the truth of who we are. My work reminds us to always be authentic and live with our hearts wide open. I do this by extensively cold working the glass on a lathe, so that it no longer resembles glass, because what you see is not always the truth. By making glass not look like glass, I am reminding us to live our inner truth.
In 2015 I started an intimate life casting project of casting women's private areas, I worked with over 50 women between the ages of 21 and 58. After realizing so many women felt disgust regarding their bodies, I set about to show the beauty in the female form. I was able to help many women overcome their fears, shame, and embarrassment regarding their private body parts. It was a rewarding, enlightening, and empowering experience for everyone who participated. After a 6 month show of over 50 castings, a smaller grouping of the plaster and glass vaginas were on temporary display with the educational Institute of Sexology located in San Antonio, Texas. I continue to offer private castings. Another aspect of my life castings, is that I offer castings of women's torsos. I also offer pre and post mastectomy castings, and am currently applying for grants to offer women who are suffering from cancer free sculptures.