Program Details
Momentum | Intersection 2024 Artist Panel
October 3, 2024
7:00p.m.
This is a virtual event via Instagram live, @toledomuseum
Registration is not required for this event, but it is strongly encouraged.
Now in its seventh year, Momentum | Intersection is an annual juried exhibition held by The Arts Commission and Pilkington Glass North America (Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.) that highlights new and creative uses of industrial glass. Momentum | Intersection takes inspiration from the experimental glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1962. Momentum | Intersection connects contemporary art-making with Toledo’s history as an innovator in the glass industry. This year’s artists are Davin Ebanks, Matthew Hutchinson, and Gabriel Peña Tijerina.
TMA is excited to host an artist panel on Thursday, October 3rd on Instagram Live. Joining the artists and facilitating discussion will be Kelli Fisher, curator of Momentum | Intersection 2024, and Chuchen Song, glass studio specialist at TMA and a past Momentum | Intersection artist.
Artists
Matt Hutchinson
IG: @pathfab
As an architect, educator, and maker, Matt Hutchinson believes in the reciprocal relationship between designing and making. Interest in the dialogue between traditional technique and digital process informs his own architecture and design practice – PATH, where material and fabrication experiments are the core working method. Having spent twenty years between New York and California, he has a broad range of experiences - traditional architectural practice, fabrication and teaching, which in turn have shaped his sensibilities and collaborative approach to work. Matt currently lives and practices in Peninsula, Ohio in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
Davin Ebanks
IG: @davin.ebanks
Davin Ebanks is a Caymanian American sculptor who primarily utilizes glass to explore his personal and cultural history and examine the relationship between identity and environment. Davin has shown at SOFA Chicago, CONTEXT Art Miami, and the Delaware Contemporary. He is a recipient of the Silver Heritage Star from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation for his contributions to creativity in the Arts. His sculptures are in the collection of His Royal Highness, King Charles, The Kerry & C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art, and the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands. In 2019 Davin’s work was published in A-Z of Caribbean Art. He is currently Associate Professor (Head) of the Glass Program at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, USA.
Gabriel Peña Tijerina
Gabriel Peña Tijerina (he/him), Ph.D., is an artist, architect, and lecturer. His practice reimagines the role of territory and landscape in shaping culture and identity through art and design. He crafts glass objects that explore environmental perception, revealing both its material and intangible elements and questioning its apparent stability. Gabriel's contributions have been recognized with prestigious awards such as the MITACS Globalink Research Award and the Italian Technology Award for Glass Technology. He has also received grants including the Conacyt Doctoral Grant and FONCA Young Creators. Gabriel has lectured at institutions like Urban Glass Brooklyn, Miami University, and the University of Calgary, and his work has been exhibited at venues including the Bienal FEMSA XXI and Espacio Cultural Mexico Montreal.
Chuchen Song
IG: @chuchen_glass
Chuchen Song (born in 1995, Qingdao, China) is a glass enameling artist who utilizes an ancient glass enameling technique, called “grisaille,” to paint on glass. Her current body of work involves a series of enameled and kiln formed glass which contain symbolic imagery to talk about the experience of Chinese women in this cultural background. Her work was included in the Momentum | Intersection exhibition in 2022.
Chuchen received her M.F.A. from the glass program of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2021, and her B.F.A. in design from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2017.
Kelli Fisher
IG: @whaleparty
Kelli Fisher is the Research Associate of Glass and Contemporary Craft at the Toledo Museum of Art and is the curator of Momentum | Intersection 2024. She graduated from Syracuse University with dual master’s degrees in art history and museum studies in 2022 and was the inaugural Kenneth R. Trapp Craft Curatorial Fellow at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts from 2022-2023. She is interested in telling diverse narratives through craft and art history.