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Mary Ann Babula

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Mary Ann Babula received both a National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship (1985) and National Endowment for the Arts, Apprenticeship Grant (1981), She has taught at the Mass College of Art since 1995, where she heads the cold working department after teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the Pilchuck School in Stanwood, Washington.

Mary Ann Babula is known for her geometric sculptures that reflect her expertise in the carving and polishing of glass. More recently, she has created a collection of jewelry - small geometric sculptures of laminated, cold worked glass, mirror, vitrolite (black architectural glass) and gold leaf – in the same aesthetic as her larger sculptures.

In creating this collection, Babula reflects the ancient history of glass as jewelry. Small glass objects that were used for personal adornment trace back to the third millennium BC and it is in this tradition that many glass sculptors continue to create important statements in jewelry that have become part of their overall sculptural work.