Sean Salstrom is an American artist and educator who lives and works in Stevens point, Wisconsin where he is the Assistant Professor of Hot Glass. He received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has taught glass at RISD, was an Associate professor at the Toyama City Institute of Glass Art in Japan, and has taught at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in 2016. He is a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Nominee and three-time nominee for the Irvin Borowsky Prize in Glass. His work has been exhibited in the US and Japan, including at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, Washington, The Wassaic Project, New York, and The Nizayama Forest Art Museum in Japan. He most recently worked as a liaison between the city of Akita, Japan and the Akita University of Art in an effort to build public interest in glass as a material for making and local culture-branding. His work bridges action, object and performance and touches on themes as vast as temporality, wonder, visual phenomena and absurdity. http://hyperopiaprojects.com
