Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend
- Born
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Biography
Born in Baltimore, Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend was educated at Hood College, Indiana University at Bloomington, and the University of Texas at Austin . While living in Austin, she studied with glass artists Narcissus Quagliata and Paul Marioni. The owner of the Renaissance Glass Company in Austin from 1973 to 1987, Stinsmuehlen-Amend also was a designer for the firm. She is currently an independent artist in Ojai, California.
A former member and president of the board of directors of the Glass Art Society, Stinsmuehlen-Amend has served as a guest artist and lecturer at many schools, including Penland School of Crafts, Rhode Island School of Design, and Pilchuk Glass School. She completed notable commissions in New York City at the Jewish Museum and the AT&T Foundation headquarters in 1992–93.
Kenneth R. Trapp and Howard Risatti Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998)
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Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend works with found and plate glass to create appealing juxtapositions of mundane objects. She trained as a painter but was more excited about working with glass, translating her skill for collage into the medium. Stinsmuehlen-Amend saw that art made from flat glass seemed to be limited to transparent window pieces, so she experimented with oddly colored and textured opaque glass to create compositions that could be hung on the wall like paintings.