Helen Lee uses glass to think about language. She holds an MFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BSAD in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lee has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, California College of Art, Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio, and the MIT Glass Lab. Her recent honors include the inaugural Irwin Borowsky Prize in Glass Art (2013) and the Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award (2014). Lee has been a freelance graphic designer for Chronicle Books and Celery Design Collaborative, and an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work will be exhibited this year at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary (Oakland, CA), the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, NY), and the Minnesota Museum of American Art (St. Paul, MN). She is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of Glass in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
