Artist's Resumé
Mariah Armstrong Conner
Education
2018 MFA in Studio Art, California State University, San Bernardino, (expected June 2018)
2007 BA in Art, Business Language and Culture, and Spanish, Cum Laude, The College of Idaho,
Caldwell, ID
Additional Education/ Workshops
2017 Pilchuck Glass School Materiality and Spirituality with Scott Darlington and
Shunji Omura Session 4. Stanwood, WA
Urban Glass Utilizing Limbo with Rob Lewis, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Pilchuck Glass School Compozicione Completo with Davide Salvadore, Shelley Allen, Pietro and Ricardo Ferro, Session 3. Stanwood, WA
2015 Glass Sculpting with Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, San Jose, CA
2013 Glass Sculpting with Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, San Diego, CA
2010-2013 Palomar College, San Marcos, CA (glass blowing and foundry courses)
Exhibitions
2018 College Art Association MFA Exhibition: Sustainability and Public Good, Los Angeles, CA
2017 4th Clay & Glass Biennial, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
SoCal MFA, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
Existential Waste Land, MFA Second Year Exhibition, VA 106 Gallery,
California State University, San Bernardino, CA
2016 Alumni Exhibition, Rosenthal Gallery, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID
MFA Biennial Exhibition, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
Vetri, Verre, Vidrio: The Universal Language of Glass, Front Porch
Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2015 Art Glass Association of Southern California Group Exhibition, Mission
Valley Library, San Diego, CA
2013 Palomar College Annual Student Exhibition, San Marcos, CA
2012 A Drop in the Ocean (solo exhibition) Gallery 204, Vista, CA
2007 Connections College of Idaho Thesis Exhibition, Caldwell, ID
Teaching Experience
2018 Instructor (Teaching Associate), Beginning Glass, California State University, San Bernardino
2017 Teaching Assistant to Matthew Poole, Freshman Seminar: Art & Society I, California State
University, San Bernardino, Fall quarter
Teaching Assistant to Aya Oki Salinas, Beginning Glass, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Teaching Assistant to Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Workshop at Pittsburg
Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Teaching Assistant to Katherine Gray, Beginning Glass, California State University,
San Bernardino, Winter quarter
2016-2017 Teaching Assistant to Ashley Blalock, Art History: Pre-Historic to Middle Ages, California State University, San Bernardino, Fall, Winter & Spring quarters
2016 Art Instructor, Boys and Girls Club, California State University, San
Bernardino Community Based Arts Program, Spring quarter
2015 Teaching Assistant to Michael Hernandez, Beginning Glass, Palomar
College, San Marcos, CA, Spring semester
Professional Experience
2017 Assistant Lab Technician, Department of Art, California State University, San Bernardino
Assistant to Artist in Residence Turi McKinley, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, Session
2011-2016 Glass Blowing Instructor and Hot Shop Assistant, Stone and Glass, San Diego, CA
Honors and Awards
2018 SSI Culminating Project Grant, California State University, San Bernardino
2017 Sam and Beverly Maloof Art Scholarship, California State University, San Bernardino
Visionary Scholarship, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, Dallas TX
Urban Glass Partnership Scholarship, Brooklyn, NY
Student Research and Travel Grant, California State University, San Bernardino
Presentations
2017 Artist Talk, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
Artist Talk, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2016-2017 Meeting of the Minds Conference, California State University, San Bernardino
2016 Artist Talk, CSUSB Community Based Arts/Prison Arts Collective,
Chino Institute for Men, Chino, CA
Service
2016-2018 President, Graduate Studio Art and Design Club, California State University, San Bernardino