Women in Studio Glass
Ann Wolff (German, born 1937), Goddess Gives Blue. Glass, blown, etched, 1985. Study Gallery
Women have been part of the Studio Glass Movement from the beginning; many of the original Toledo Workshops participants were women. Likewise, many of the students who enrolled in the first glassblowing class to be offered for credit in an American university—Harvey Littleton’s program at the University of Wisconsin—were women ceramicists interested in making art in glass. However, out of a total of 48 artists, only seven women were featured in the first Toledo Glass National exhibition. Since the 1960s, women have been a growing and influential presence in studio glass, and by the 1990s the number of women faculty and students at university glass programs was equal to the number of men.