Zynzky photos/courtesy of Barry Friedman Ltd.,
Sopratutto
/'collection of de Young Yluseum, San Francisco.
Top:
Toots Zynsky
Sopratutto
, 2007,
filet-de-verre (fused
and thermo-formed
glass threads) {h. 19Y2 in,
w. 14 in, d. 14 in}.
Bottom:
Toots Zynsky
A k a ,
2008,
filet-dc-verre (fused
and thermo-formed
glass threads) {h. 10Vi in,
w. 17% in , d. 11 in}.
Fellow
Toots
ZynSky
Honorary Fellow
L o is M ora n
Lois Moran was editor in chief
of American Craft magazine
from 1980 through 2006, when
she retired after 43 years of ser-
vice to the American Craft
Council. “I love the act of edit-
ing,” she said. “I always enjoyed
working with artists and trying
to deliver the message of their
work in an honest way.” An
honors graduate from Tobe-
Cobum School for Fashion Ca-
reers, Moran, who lives in New'
York City, held various posi-
tions with the Council including
director of regional program-
ming and, from 1988 to 1990,
executive director. In 1993 she
received the Lifetime Achieve-
ment Aw'ard at the Women in
the Craft Arts conference at the
National Museum of Women in
the Arts. She received the Mint
Museum of Craft + Design’s
Founders’ Circle Aw'ard in
2006. An internationally recog-
nized figure w'ho has helped
define the ever-changing w'orld
of craft, she continues to serve
this constituency as a panelist,
juror and consultant. +
In 1982 Toots Zynsky (b. 1951)
began developing filet-de-verre,
a groundbreaking technique in
w'hich glass threads are pulled
from hot glass canes. Zynsky,
w'ho received her
b .f .a .
from
the Rhode Island School of
Design in Providence (w'here
she now' lives), w'as also among
the founders of the Pilchuck
Glass School near Seattle and
the Experimental Glass Work-
shop (now UrbanGlass in
Brooklyn, New York). Her
luminous vessels have garnered
critical acclaim, and she w'as the
first contemporary glass artist
to have a piece commissioned
by New York's Museum of
Modern Art. “The astonishingly
iridescent bowls of the glass
artist Toots Zynsky evoke a
sense of w'onder,” critic Arthur
Danto once said, “in part be-
cause of their beauty, in part
because of the craft that she
so evidently commands.”
oct/novo9 american craft 063
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