Jay Musler

Glass bowl in the ‘Urban Bowl Series’ by Jay Musler, 1983, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Jay Musler is an American glass artist who was born in Sacramento, California in 1949. From 1968 to 1971, he attended the California College of the Arts (Oakland, California). He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. He also received two awards at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, World Glass Now in Sapporo, Japan. He lives in San Francisco, California.

The Corning Museum of Glass, the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D. C.) and the Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, Ohio) are among the public collections holding work by Jay Musler.

References

• Pepich, Bruce W., Jay Musler and the Nature of Disquiet, Chicago, Marx-Saunders Gallery, 1998.