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NEW – RBC Award for Glass
http://www.theclayandglass.ca/events/awards
“Cheryl Wilson-Smith wins 2014 RBC Award for Glass” - Akimbo
The winner of the 2014 RBC Award for Glass is Cheryl Wilson Smith of Red Lake, Ontario. Cheryl Wilson Smith’s delicate and complex kiln-cast works are inspired by the boreal forest and the rocky shores of Red Lake where she lives. Created by translating drawings into countless individual layers of glass frit, her sculptures push the limits of glass while interpreting the northern Ontario light, landscape and wilderness. Read more
GAAC’s Professional Project Grant
“Winner of the 2014 Glass Art Association of Canada’s Project Grants” - 3D printing at the Solheim lab
Cheryl Wilson-Smith has been selected as the recipient of GAAC’s professional grant. She will be using the grant to cover a portion of the costs of her doing a residency as a visiting artist at the University of Washington and the Solheim Rapid Prototyping Lab. Read more
Emerge 2014
“Bullseye Glass – Emergent” - Lois Manno
When I first saw online images of the glass that had been selected for the Emerge 2014 show, I was puzzled. I couldn’t understand what distinguished these pieces from many of the other images of glass I had looked at online, or why they would be chosen to represent the forefront of emerging contemporary kiln-glass..read more
“Cheryl Wilson-Smith – Finalist in the Emerge 2014″ - Bullseye Glass Co. biennial kiln-glass exhibition
Cheryl’s art, Winter’s Lichen, was chosen as one of 42 finalists (out of a field of 326) in EMERGE 2014, Bullseye’s eighth biennial kiln-glass exhibition for emerging artists. In addition, Cheryl won an Honorable Mention from Juror Kathleen Moles, and her piece is now in Bullseye’s Private Collection – for Dan Schwoerer, co-founder of Bullseye Glass, it was “love at first sight”. The Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM) has requested to host the final exhibition of EMERGE 2014 in the Spring of 2015 at the end of its national tour!
- Oregon Public Broadcasting OPB Video on Emerge 2014 – Bullseye Gallery’s eigthe biannual kiln-glass exhibition for emerging artists – watch the video
“Winter’s Lichen” - it was “love at first sight” Cheryl’s art, Winter’s Lichen, was chosen as one of 42 finalists (out of a field of 326) in EMERGE 2014, Bullseye’s eighth biennial kiln-glass exhibition for emerging artists. In addition, Cheryl won an Honorable Mention from Juror Kathleen Moles, and her piece is now in Bullseye’s Private Collection – for Dan Schwoerer, co-founder of Bullseye Glass, it was “love at first sight”. AND the Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM) has requested to host the final exhibition of EMERGE 2014 in the Spring of 2015 at the end of its national tour!
The Art of Cheryl Wilson-Smith in the News
“The Artist Project” - Global TV Toronto – The Morning Show - Featured Artist
“Fusion Glass Mentorship” - Contemporary Glass – Magazine of the Glass Art Association of Canada
“Push on at the LAC to find new ways of of looking at glass” by David Paterson – Mississauga News
“Push exhibit opens at LAC Gallery” by Colleen Munro – Mississauga Life
Emerge/Evolve is a small but mighty exhibition at Pittsburgh Glass Center
Sculptural works approach the organic in either duplication or evocation of the natural world. Cheryl Wilson Smith's "Writer's Lichen" would not be out of place deep within the woods or on the ocean floor, and.... http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/emerge-evolve-is-a-small-but-mighty-exhibition-at-pittsburgh-glass-center/Content?oid=1799775
Studio Magazine Fall 2015
Glass artists' skills displayed in new exhibit http://triblive.com/aande/museums/9415854-74/glass-barney-christine#axzz3rrhfeyC1
A link to A radio show by CBC morning 2017
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/superior-morning/segment/14538175
A short video interview in my studio 2017
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/red-lake-glass-sculptor-1.4373067
The Walleye 2017
http://issuu.com/thewalleyemagazine/docs/walleye_august_issuu?e=2733797/51790481
Fusion Magazine 2018
https://www.clayandglass.on.ca/resources/Documents/FUSIONMAGAZINE2017Vol41No3FINALJan29-2.pdf