BRENT COLE
Associate Professor, School of Art
Ball State University
E D U C A T I O N
2003 Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Glass
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
2010 – Present Associate Professor of Glass, (Tenured, 2015)
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
2004 – 2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of Glass
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
2008 Instructor
Armory Art Center; West Palm Beach, Florida
2007 Architectural Glass Conference and Workshop
Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, Oregon
2006 Educator’s Workshop
Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, Oregon
2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 Workshop Instructor for Glass
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
2001- 2004 Partner / Co-Founder
Ipso Facto Glass, Burnsville, North Carolina
2000, 2001, 2006, 2007 Workshop Instructor for Glass
Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee
2000 - 2001 Instructor of Record for Introduction to Sculpture
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
2000 Teaching assistant for Sculptural Glass
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
1999 - 2000 Instructor of Record for Introduction to Glass
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
1999 Instructor of Record for Advanced Glass
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
1999 Teaching assistant for Hot and Cold Glass
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington
1995 - 1998 Emerging Professional Artist for Glass
Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee
1996 Teaching assistant for Hot and Cold Glass
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington
1994 - 1995 Instructor and Technician for Beginning and Advanced Glass
New Orleans School of Glass Works, New Orleans, Louisiana
F U N D E D G R A N T S
2019 Create Grant: Silesian Sojourn in Poland
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
2018 Fulbright awarded to teach and research in Poland
2014 Presidential Travel Grant – Wroclaw, Poland and Berlin, Germany
Ball State Univerisity, Muncie, Indiana
2014 Aspire Grant: Junior Faculty Creative Arts Competition - Scotland
Ball State Univerisity, Muncie, Indiana
2010 Discovery Grant – Educational Outreach
Ball State Univerisity, Muncie, Indiana
2010 Aspire Grant – New Faculty Start-up
Ball State Univerisity, Muncie, Indiana
1999 - 2001 Brodie Grant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1999 Brodie Graduate Fellowship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1997 Award of Merit
Art with a Southern Drawl, Mobile, Alabama
1992 Helen Greene Perry Traveling Scholarship
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
A W A R D S A N D S P E C I A L R E C O G N I T I O N
2018 Juror’s Choice Award
Rockford Midwestern Biennial
Rockford Museum of Art; Rockford, IL
2018 First Place
Workhouse Glass National 2018
Workhouse Arts Center; Lorton, Virginia
2015 Best of Show
GATHERING: Contemporary Glass from the Heartland
Indianapolis Art Center; Indianapolis, Indiana
2015 Merit Award for Three-Dimensional Work
Open Space: Art About the Land
Minnetrista; Muncie, Indiana
2015 Honorable Mention
Biennial Quad-State Exhibit
Quincy Art Center; Quincy, Illinois
2014 Second Place Winner
GATHERING: Contemporary Glass from the Heartland
Gallery 924; Indianapolis, Indiana
2013 Purchase Award Winner
Figures of Speech
Anderson Center for the Arts; Anderson, Indiana
2012 Third Place
2012 Indiana Glass Arts Exhibition
Anderson University Art Gallery, Anderson, Indiana
2011 Purchase Award
Open Space: Art About the Land
Minnetrista; Muncie, Indiana
2011 Honorable Mention
Illiana Artists 13th Regional Juried Exhibition
Charleston Art Center; Chesterton, Indiana
2011 Second Place and Honorable Mention
2011 Regional Juried Exhibition
Indiana University Kokomo; Kokomo, Indiana
2010 Second Place
Open Space: Art About the Land
Minnetrista; Muncie, Indiana
S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S
2019 Imperfection; International faculty and student exhibition; Galeria Limpowa 3; Kraków, Poland
2019 Luminous; Solo Exhibition; Ned and Gloria Griner Gallery; Ball State University, Munice, Indiana
2019 Retrospective; Group show commemorating 10 years of Eco Glass; Glass Museum in Lviv; Lviv, Ukraine
2019 Evolution; 2019 Eco Glass Symposium show; Big Mountain Museum; Jelenia Gora, Poland
2019 BETWIXT; Solo Exhibition, part of Play with Glass-European Glass Festival; Moya Gallery; Wroclaw, Poland
2018 Workhouse Glass National 2018; juried by Carmen Lozar, glass artist and Director of the Merwin and Wakeley
Galleries at Illinois Wesleyan University; Workhouse Arts Center; Lorton, Virginia
2018 2018 Alumni Exhibition; Ann + Norman Roulet Gallery; Cleveland Institute of Art; Cleveland, OH
2018 33rd Annual Positive/Negative National Juried Art Exhibition; Juror Margaret Winslow, Curator of
Contemporary Art at the Delaware Art Museum; Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University;
Knoxville, TN
2018 Rockford Midwestern Biennial; juried by Aron Packer, owner of Aron Packer Projects and former owner and
director of Packer Schopf Gallery; Chicago, IL; Rockford Museum of Art; Rockford, I
2018 Heartland Glass; Cinema Gallery; Urbana, IL; invitation
2017 Points of Departure
Juried by curator Adriane Levy
John Michael Kohler Arts Center; Sheboygan, WI
2017 International Glass Symposium Rona Exhibition
Juried by Patrick Illo
Gallery NOVA; Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 GATHERING: Contemporary Glass from the Heartland
Juried by Jeff Ballard and Carmen Lozar
Atrium Gallery; Indianapolis, IN
2016 200 years of Indiana Art
Indiana State Museum; Indianapolis, IN
2016 Ceramics and Glass. Sensual Areas
Curated by Professor Margaret Dajewska and Dr. Bozena Sacharczuk
The City Museum of Wroclaw; Wroclaw, Poland
2016 Treading Water: Jacinda Russell and Brent Cole, (invitational)
Arts Place; Portland, Indiana
2016 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition (international juried)
Charlottenborg Palace; Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 Global Glass 2015, (international online)
hosted on sculpturefix.com
2015 GATHERING: Contemporary Glass from the Heartland
Juried by Marc Petrovic and Josh Dewall
Indianapolis Art Center; Indianapolis, Indiana
2015 Biennial Quad-State Exhibit
Juried by Miranda Krajniak
Quincy Art Center; Quincy, Illinois
2015 Craft Forms 2015
Juried by Ronald T. Labaco
Wayne Art Center; Wayne, Pennsylvania
2015 The Water Show, (national juried)
Core: New Art Space; Denver, Colorado
2015 Workshop Instructor Exhibition, (invitational)
Appalachian Center for Crafts; Smithville, Tennessee
2015 American Craft Glass Today: Glass, (national juried)
The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts; Highlands, North Carolina
2015 A Car, Stars, and the In-between, (solo)
Earlham College Gallery; Richmond, Indiana
2014 Glass, (national invitational)
Cinema Gallery; Urbana, Illinois
2014 Wanderlust, (national juried)
Indiana University at Kokomo, Kokomo, Indiana
2013 Lifeforms, (national juried)
Hodge Gallery, Pittsburgh Glass Center; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2013 Drawing Practice, (invitational)
Gordy’s Fine Art and Framing; Muncie, Indiana
2013 Red Right Returning, (solo)
Illinois Wesleyan University - The Merwin and Wakeley Gallery; Bloomington, Illinois
2012 Fusion, (invitational)
Ball State University - The Atrium Gallery; Muncie, Indiana
2012 Now Wow
Hudson Gallery; Hudson, Ohio
2012 50 x 50, (invitational)
Muskegon Museum of Art; Muskegon, Michigan
2011 Odd Couples, (invitational)
Flame Run Gallery; Louisville, Kentucky
2011 Flora and Fauna
The 930; Louisville, Kentucky
2010 - 2011 Ucross Residents, (invitational)
Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center; Casper, Wyoming
2010 Showtel 8
Hotel Biba; West Palm Beach, Florida
2009 Capturing Ghosts of My Past Consumption (solo)
Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
2006 Floats above, Floats below (solo)
Edge Zones, Miami, Florida
2006 Introductions 2006
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2005 Contemporary Glass
Rubygreen Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
(Catalogue)
2005 Revolution/Evolution
Art Basel, Miami, Florida
(Catalogue)
2005 Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
2005 Compelled by Content
Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
(Catalogue)
2005 Buoyancy (solo)
Rebus Works Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
2004 Affinitas
Art Basel, Miami, Florida
2003 Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
(Book)
2002 Organic / Mechanic
John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2001 Apocalypse Next Week
Ispace, Chicago, Illinois
Jurors: Buzz Spector and Linda Robbennolt
(Catalogue)
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
Oseye T. Boyd; A Touch of Glass; Muncie Star Press; 10/26/2011; Sections 1C and 3C
Charo Oquet and David Verdi, Supermix: Union of the Diverse Contemporary Art in Miami, EdgeZones Book Press, November 2008.
Jerry Cullum, Review, "Young Artists Go Deep", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 9, 2006, Section L, 3.
Lark Books, 500 Glass Objects: A Celebration of Functional and Sculptural Glass, May 28, 2006.
Huston Pascal, Linda Johnson Dougherty, Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, Prestel
Publishing, November 1, 2003.
Terry Neuhoff, Review, New Art Examiner, Vol. 29, November/December, 2001, 93.
Leah Finch, Interview, “Apocalypse Next Week”, Dialogue, September/October, 2001, 31-35.
Alan G. Artner, “Visions by Four”, Chicago Tribune, August 10, 2001, Section 7C, 32.
Rosemary James, “Glass Act”, Southern Living, November/December, 1996, 86-90.
A R T I S T R E S I D E N C I E S
2019 Artist in Residence
Eco Glass, Jelenia Gora, Poland
2017 Artist in Residence
RONA, Lednické Rovne, Slovakia
2015 Artist in Residence
StarWorks, Star, North Carolina
2005 Artist in Residence
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
2002 Fellowship Selection
Wheaton Village, Millville, New Jersey
2001 – 2004 Resident Artist
Energy Xchange, Burnsville, North Carolina
2001 Resident Artist
Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming
1995 - 1998 Emerging Professional Artist
Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee
C O N F E R E N C E S A N D S Y M P O S I U M S
2019 Play with Glass; European Glass Festival; Guest speaker and solo exhibition, see Solo Exhibition BETWIXT;
Wroclaw, Poland.
2019 Art full of Fire; XII Festiwalu Wysokich Temperatur, 12th High Temperature Festival; Eugeniusz Geppert
Academy of Fine Arts; Wroclaw, Poland
2019 Evolution; Eco Glass Festival Symposium; Guest speaker; Jelenia Gora, Poland
2018 International Project Glass Art Workshop Wroclaw 2018; Galeria Lipowa 3; Kraków, Poland