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JAMES
HARMON
31 Hunterforge Road,
Barto, Pennsylvania 19504
610 845 8021 Fax 610 845 2368
E-mail jim@jamesharmon.com
An international artist of 20+ years, working primarily in glass. Has had
numerous exhibitions, given several lectures and workshops, is noted in a
large number of published books, taught at the finest academies of Art, and
received outstanding awards for his artistic achievements in the design and
fine arts arenas. James is now chiefly involved in Architectural and Interior
Commissions in Glass:
PERSONALS
1992 July - Bought & Restored 1885 stone house with no modernization whatsoever; no heat, no plumbing, and no electricity.
1993 August - Daughter Sara was born.
EDUCATION
1970 - 75 BFA Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1975 - 78 MFA Sculpture/Education, University of Illinois, Normal, IL
ARCHITECTURAL
COMMISSIONS
2000 270 Blown Art Glass Globes, Hardy Holzman Pfieffer Architects (HHPA), New York, NY,
for The University of the South, New Dining Hall, Sewanee, Tennessee
2000 20 - 20" tall hurricane lamps for Mediterranean Resort, DISNEY Resorts, Disneyland, CA
1998 100 Blown Art Glass Globes, Hardy Holzman Pfieffer Architects (HHPA), New York, for
the University of North Texas, Performing Arts Center, Denton, Texas
1997 125 Blown Glass Awards, KNOLL Furniture Company with Bill Shea, Shea & Latone
Design Firm, Pennsburg, PA, for Architect "Mia Lin" 1996 125 Blown Glass Awards, KNOLL
Furniture Company, with Bill Shea, Shea & Latone Design Firm, Pennsburg, PA.
1996 14 Slumped Glass Panels, Hardy Holzman Pfieffer Architects, New York, NY, for Cellar in
the Sky Restaurant, at Windows on the World, World Trade Tower, NY, NY
1996 16 Slumped Glass Paneled Screen, 6' X 6', Hardy Holzman Pfieffer Architects, Windows
on the World Restaurant, World Trade Tower #1, NY, NY
1995 200 Blown Christmas Ball Ornaments, Steuben Glass, in partnership with John Chiles, Corning, NY
1991 Blown and cast glass lighting fixture, Private residence, Rutherford, NJ
1991 Neon wall pieces, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, for the Sun Viking Ship, Miami, FL
1990 2 Historical Reproduction Green Glass pieces for Ben Franklin's inventions: Static Electricity Machine,
and Vacuum Bell Jar, The Ben Franklin Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Neon wall installation, Skyline Productions Studio, New York, NY
1989 Neon hallway installation, Private residence, Marlton, NJ
1989 Neon wall installation, Private residence, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Blown and cast glass lighting fixture, Private residence, Tarrytown, NY
1989 Glass wall, Mobil Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia
1988 11 Hand cast Glass Wall Sconces, Private residence, New York, NY
1988 Lobby Lamp sculpture, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Architects, New York, NY
1987 Neon wall installation, Miami Restaurant Corp. Miami Bayside Project, Bar Balu, Miami, FL
1986 Neon hallway installation, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Neon wall installation, Private residence, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Neon sign, Silvia's Coffee Shop, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Glass doors, in collaboration with Edward Mclvane, Private residence, Providence, RI
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
2000 Website Development and Design, Harmon, Barto, PA
1999 Glass Consultant, University of Salisbury, Glass Department, Salisbury, MD
Glass Consultant, Corning Glass, For The New Corning Glass Innovation Center, Directed
Steuben blowers and produced 24" glass cylinder for exhibit piece, Corning, NY
1998 Glass Consultant, Corning Glass Museum with International Chimney Company , The
New Corning Glass Innovation Center, Glued and Polished 200" Mt. Palomar Telescope Disk For central exhibit piece in new museum.
1997 Freelance Computer Designer, Corporate Image pieces (Rodale Institute, Emmaus, PA)
Glass Consultant, Beaver College, Elkins Park, PA, also Private shop, Washington, DC, & Sharp Glass Studio, Manyunk, PA
1996 Consultant & Designer, Glass Shop, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA Glass
Consultant, Bucks County Community College, Glass Shop, Newton, PA.
1994- Member, Advisory Committee, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY 1993-95 Freelance Computer
Graphics Artist, 3-D Computer Models, and Interactive Kiosk Development, Barto, PA
1993-99 Consultant, Wemswel Glass Equipment Design, Weston, VT
1989-1992 Technical Coordinator & Designer, Urban Glass,17,000 sq.ft. Studio, Brooklyn, NY
1990-92 Instructor, 3-D Product Design on A Computer, Parsons School of Design, NY, NY
1989-92 Glass Consultant, Burr/Mosso Art Glass lass, Inc., New York, NY
1988-93 Board of Directors, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, New York, NY
1988-85 Board of Directors, Empire State Crafts Alliance (E.S.C.A.), Saratoga Springs, NY
1987 Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R I Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School, (with Will Dexter), Seattle, WA
1986-91 Chairman - Artists Future Planning Committee, N.Y.E.G.W.
1986 Juror, New York Foundation for the Arts, (NIFA) New York, NY
1985-88 Instructor, Glass Program, New York University, at the N.Y.E.G.W.
1982 Director of Glass Program, University of Hawaii Art Dept., Honolulu, HI
1981 Edwin Pratt City Arts Center, Neon Course, Seattle, WA
1980 Penland School, Instructor, Fall Concentration in Glass, Penland, NC
PRODUCT DESIGN
EXPERIENCE
1998 Designed Glass Tile Series, Barto, PA
1996 Designed Crackle Glass Lamp Series, Barto, PA
1995 Designed Wall Sconce Collection with Bronze Studios, Topton, PA
1991 Product Designer, Burr/Mosso ArtGlass, Inc., New York, NY
1989 Cocktail Glass Design, Crescent Design Studio, New York, NY
1986 Marketed Sushi Design, Sointu Inc., New York, NY
1985-90 Formed Harmon Design Group, Inc., Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY
1985 Design Assistant, Robert Dugrenier Designs, New York, NY
1984 Arango Design Competition, Miami, FL Glass Sushi plate design, marketed by Maxfield International, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Cut glass line, Associated Dry Goods, Inc., New York, NY
1975 Design Assistant, James Carpenter, European Tour
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2000 Glass Art from Urban Glass, By Richard Wilfred Yelle, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Atglen, PA p.92
1996 Interior Design Magazine, Windows '97 article, photo showing slumped glass window
panels commissioned for Cellar in the Sky, December issue, p.98
Metropolitan Home Magazine, Studio Warehouse Supplement, Nov/Dec Issue, photo and blurb
1991- Who's who in American Art, Jacques Cattell Press, Tempe, AZ
1990 Architecture, Malcolm Holzman and Andrea Landsman Loft, 2 Photos showing 11 Handcast Wall Sconces, June
The Traveler's Guide to American Crafts, - East of the Mississippi, By Suzanne Carmichael, Published by The Penquin Group, P.89
Who's who in American Art, Jacques Cattell Press, Tempe, AZ
Masterpieces in American Glass catalogue, by Suzanne Frantz, Russian and American
Versions, catalogue which accompanied the Russian/American shows in New York, NY
and Leningrad & Moscow, Russia, Crown Publishers, 1990
1989 Masterpieces of American Glass, By Suzanne Frantz & James Spielman, Crown Publishers, P.79
Glass - A Contemporary Art, By Dan Klein, Rizzoli International Publications, p.50
Glass Art Magazine, Neon: Fluid Light in Motion, Shawn Waggoner, January/February, and pgs. 5 & 7
Table Top from New York, Teiko Smith at Matsuzakaya, Yokohama, Japan
Who's who in American Art, Jacques Cattell Press, Tempe, and AZ. Updated annually?
Visual Investments Ltd., Catalogue of Large Scale Sculpture, A Division of Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL and New York, NY
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from Corning Museum of Glass, by Susanne K. Frantz, Harry N. Abrams publisher
Art In America, "Harry Anderson at Henri", review of lamps, Patricia Stewart, May, p.207
The Guild, A Sourcebook of American Craft Artists, Kraus Sikes, Inc.
1988 Design Journal, International Design Magazine, HDG, November, Seoul, Korea
L'atelier, International Arts Magazine, November/ December, Inside cover for Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris, France
American Craft Magazine, Architectural Art Issue, American Craft Council, June/July, pg.70
1001 Home Ideas, Shopping America, Published by Family Media Inc., NY, NY, Book #179, Article & Photos, June
Times-Union Newspaper, "The Arts", February 4, Rochester, NY
The Guild, A Sourcebook of American Craft Artists, Kraus Sikes, Inc
1987 Contemporary Crafts: A Concept in Flux Catalogue, The Society for Arts in Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
Interiors Magazine, "Hardy Holzman Pfieffer Portfolio of New Work", Andrea Truppin, July, pg.162, Photo with blurb
Voque Decoration, Edition Internationale No.11, September, photo of piece with Clara Scremini, pg.70
Product Design 2, Harmon Design Group, Glass Sushi Plates, PBC International Publishers
Revue de La Ceramique et Du Verre, Memories of a New Light, May/June, pgs.30-33
Maison Francaise, Review, Memories of A New Light at Clara Scremini Gallery, Florence, Michel, May, Pg. 64.
The Guild, A Sourcebook of American Craft Artists, Kraus Sikes, Inc.
1986 Vogue Magazine, "Living", October Issue
The Guild, A Sourcebook of American Craft Artists, Kraus Sikes, Inc.
Metropolis Magazine, "By Design", Sculpture in Light, October
Gallery Guide, Nina Owen Gallery, November issue
New York Newsday Newspaper, "All Aglow with Neon", April 10
Palm Beach Daily News," Helander Gallery Celebrates 5th Anniversary on Avenue", December 21
1985 "An American Taste of Japan", Cookbook, by Elizabeth Andoh, Photo, Morrow Publishing
Metropolis Magazine, "By Design", November, cover page, pgs.47 &50.
Metropolis Magazine,"The Best of Design Issue", Article & Photo, October, page 41
New York Times Magazine," Home Design Section", Article & Photo, September 22
New Work Magazine, Design Issue, Article & Photo
New York Times, New Jersey' Creative Glass Center of America, Article
1984 American Crafts Magazine, Art Park, June/July
5th Arango International Design Catalogue, Glass That Works, Intercon Arts, Miami, FL, June, pg.19
Marquee Magazine, Design Review, photo, May
New Work Magazine, Article and poster, Designed poster
New York Times, New Jersey section, C.G.C.A. Fellowship
Philadelphia Inquirer, New Jersey section, C.G.C.A. Fellowship Program
1983 The New Art Examiner, March edition
Artpark, Visual Artists 1983, Catalogue, Artists-in-Residence, Lewiston, NY
1982 Art Week, March, Vol.13, #9
Craft International, Spring edition
World Glass Now '82, Catalogue of exhibit, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, July
Art and/or Craft, Catalogue from Exhibition: USA & Japan
Ambassador Magazine,"Design", TWA Airlines, June 1981 Art Voices, March
The Corning Museum of Glass, Glass Compendium, Corning, NY
1980 Survey of Illinois Glass, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Catalogue of show, Vol.2, #3
New Glass Review 1, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, pg.7
1979 New Glass: A Worldwide Survey, Catalogue from exhibition, The Corning Museum of Glass, p.94
Kunst +Handwerk, Glass in the USA, Frankfurt, W.Germany, November/December, pg.461
1978 Craft Horizons, "Ten New Fellows Named "Pioneers" by Academy, Article
& Photo Published by American Craft Council, NY, NY December, P.41
Craft Horizons, "Young Americans Clay/Glass", Article & Photo, Published by American Craft
Council, NY, NY June, and P.52, Residential Interiors Magazine, December
Young Americans, Clay/Glass, Catalogue of show, The Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craft Council
1976 Glass Art Magazine, Rhode Island School of Design article, Vol. 4, #7, October, pg.16
COLLECTIONS
Anderson Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Bank of Houston American Glass Collection, Houston, TX
Charles Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, HI
Cooper Hewitt Library, New York, NY
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Feinstein Collection, Long Island, NY
Glass Museum Frauenau, Permanent Collection, Frauenau, West Germany
Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Architects,"Lobby lamp" Collection, New York, NY
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
J&L Lobmeyr Collection, Vienna, Austria
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Permanent Collection, Wausau, WI
Martin and Jean Mensch, Providence, RI
Mobil Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia
New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans, LA
Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, Rochester, NY
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Miami, FL
George & Dorothy Saxe, Palo Alto, CA
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Vesti Colbert Museum, West Germany
GRANTS AND
AWARDS
1999 Name Engraved on Permanent Wall Plaque, The New Corning Glass Innovation Center, for valued Contributions to the repair of Mt. Palomer Disk piece, Corning, NY
1988 Merit Award, The Guild Competition (Wall Art), Kraus Sikes, Inc., New York, NY
1988 Masters Fellowship, C.G.C.A., Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ
1985 Fellow, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, New York, NY
1984 Fellow, C.G.C.A., Creative Glass Center of America Millville, NJ
1983 Artist in Residence, Artpark, Lewiston, NY
1979 Master Craftsman's Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1978 Glass Award, Young Americans: Clay/Glass Exhibition, American Crafts Council, NYC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1988 The Pyramid Gallery, with Mary Roehm, N.Y.F.A. Grant, Rochester, NY
1987 Memories of a New Light, with Harry Anderson, Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris, France
VERRE, The Hildebrandt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Anderson/Harmon/Marks, Larry Becker Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Tautological Symbolisms', New York Experimental Glass Workshop Gallery, New York, NY
1985 The Becker Window, Larry Becker Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Heller Windows, Neon Installation, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Glass Eye Gallery, Seattle, WA
Outdoor Installation, Artpark, Lewiston, NY
1982 Mandell Gallery with James Carpenter, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Betsey Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1980 J&L Lobmeyr Showrooms, Vienna, Austria
Massachusetts College of Arts, Brookline, MA
Tyler School of Art Gallery, Collaboration with Harry Anderson in Lamps, Philadelphia, PA
Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Contemporary Art Glass Gallery, Collaboration with Harry Anderson, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1996 Penn State University, Freyberger Gallery, "Glass: Some Like It Hot", Selected
Glass Sculptures, Penn State Berks Campus, and Reading, PA
1995 Urban Glass Benefit Auction, GLASSBLOWERS BALL, New York Contemporary Glass Center, Brooklyn, NY
1994 Penn State University, "In and Out of the Landscape", Site-Specific Outdoor Sculpture, Penn State Berks Campus, Reading, PA
1992-3 Museum of Contemporary Crafts Benefit Auction, New York, NY
The Glass Workshop Several Small show installations, Brooklyn, NY
1991 Collect New York, E.S.C.A Benefit Auction, Fabbri Mansion, New York, NY
Shaping the Tradition: New Directions in Glass, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University Fine Arts Center, Camden, NJ
Pre-nuptial Invitational Exhibition, Selected Works by Gallery Artists & Friends, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Langman Gallery, "Contemporary Neon", Willow Grove, PA
1990 Chess Collectors International, Fourth Biennial Convention's Juried Chess Art Competition, Hotel Intercontinental, New York, NY
Contemporary, American, & European Glass, C.G.C.A. Benefit at Sotheby's Auction House, New York,
NY American Glass at Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden, represented by the Nielsen Gallery
American Glass, Nielsen Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
DelMano Gallery, Tableware Arts 90', Pasedena, CA
1989 N.Y.E.G.W. Christmas Benefit, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, NY, NY
1988 The Eight Annual Benefit Auction of Contemporary Craft, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1987 New Art Forms, Art Expo at the Navy Pier, Represented by Sarah Squeri Gallery, Chicago, IL
Artist Illuminate, Maple Hill Gallery, Portland, ME
Group Show, The Mission Gallery, New York, NY
The Radiant Object, Habitat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI
1986 Sculptors in Glass from N.Y.E.G.W., Nina Owen Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Helander Gallery Palm Beach, FL
Let There Be Light, Sarah Squeri Gallery Cincinnati, OH
University of S. Maine, Group Installation Show, Portland, ME
Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1985 Contemporary American Glass at Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Canadian/American Glass Show, Dawson Gallery, Rochester, NY
1984 Creative Glass Center of America, Fellowship Exhibition, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Glass, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Royal Palm Gallery Ltd., Palm Beach, FL.
1983 "Art and/or Glass US A/Japan", Tokyo, Japan
Anderson/Harmon/Scanga, Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1982 "World Glass Now '82", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Tokyo
Daimaru: and Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
"Young Americans Award Winner Exhibition" American Craft Museum, New York
1981 "Artists of Hawaii", Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
"Glass Routes", Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Myer Brier Weiss American Glass Exhibition, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
"Americans in Glass", Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI;
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
1979 Traveling Exhibition of American Glass, SM Gallery, Frankfurt, W. Germany
"New Glass: A Worldwide Survey", Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY;
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.;
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY; and England, France & Japan
1978 "Young Americans: Clay/Glass", Contemporary Crafts Museum, New York, NY
1976 "New American Glass; Focus West Virginia", Huntington Galleries, Park Hills, WV
James
Harmon 31 Hunterforge Road, Barto, Pennsylvania, 19504, USA
Phone: 610.845.8021 Fax: 610.845.2368
Email: info@jamesharmon.com