In Conversation: Sydney Cash & Michael Stern

Join us for a conversation between exhibiting artists, Sydney Cash and Michael Stern, for a peek into the inspiration, material, and method of their respective bodies of work!

About Sydney:

Sydney Cash’s work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Corning Museum of Glass, New York; the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France. He has been the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, the Felissimo Design Award, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Sydney Cash is the subject of an upcoming feature-length documentary Sydney Cash Makes Too Much Art  by his son award winning film maker Ivan Cash.

About Michael:

Michael Stern is an artist, designer, engineer, and scientist whose practice finds power through the synthesis of disciplines. He co-invented the world's first molten glass 3D printer at MIT, where he earned his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. In 2022 he founded Evenline, a studio working at the intersection of computational design, machine fabrication, and traditional glassmaking. He holds four patents and has published nine peer-reviewed papers. His work has been exhibited in museums internationally, including the Cooper-Hewitt, MoMA, Fuller Craft Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, and the MIT Museum. He is Professor of Practice at the Rochester Institute of Technology.