The Arts Commission Announces Awardees for the 2024 Momentum | Intersection Glass Program
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The Arts Commission Announces Awardees for the 2024 Momentum | Intersection Glass Program
TOLEDO, OH – The 2024 Momentum | Intersection awardees have recently been selected from six finalists. The Arts Commission is pleased to announce that three internationally recognized artists will be creating new work for exhibition this fall as part of the Momentum Festival.
The awardees are Gabriel Peña, Matthew Hutchinson, and Davin Ebanks.
Momentum | Intersection is a program that connects artists, designers, and industry professionals at Pilkington Glass North American (Nippon Sheet Glass, Co., Ltd.) for collaboration and development of new, innovative artworks. Inspired by the studio glass movement, The Arts Commission seeks to provide opportunities which connect applicants of glass as an artistic medium with the glass manufacturing processes. The exhibition is scheduled for September 20 – October 26, 2024. The opening reception is to be held on Friday, September 20th, 2024, from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM. Both the exhibition and opening reception will be free and open to the public and will be held in The Glass Pavilion of The Toledo Museum of Art.
This year’s Intersection of Art and Industry jurors included:
- Susie J. Silbert, Curator, Speaker, Believer in Artists, Former Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass, Corning Museum Glass, and Artist.
- Seth Grizzle, Founder and Creative Director of Graypants, and Artist.
- Kristian Chalmers, Global Strategic Commercial Manager, Architectural Glass, Pilkington Group, Limited, and Artist reviewed detailed proposals from each finalist.
Momentum | Intersection committee member, Kelli Fisher, Research Associate of Glass and Contemporary Craft for the Toledo Museum of Art states: “Now in its seventh year, Momentum | Intersection continues to attract artists who redefine the creative possibilities intrinsic to glass as a medium. From a highly competitive pool of proposals, we are thrilled to see Gabriel Peña, Davin Ebanks, and Matthew Hutchinson as our artists for Momentum | Intersection 2024. Even at this early stage it is exciting to see how each artist and collaboration has utilized float glass in new ways that engage nature, history, and place. Place is particularly notable given Toledo's long history with glass—first as a major glass manufacturing city, then as the site that began the American Studio Glass Movement, and now as the home to Momentum | Intersection. We remain grateful to every artist who applied and look forward to seeing Gabriel Peña, Davin Ebanks, and Matthew Hutchinson’s works in the Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art later this year.”
ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES
Gabriel Peña
Gabriel Peña Tijerina is an artist, architect, and lecturer. His research and practice explore the intersection between design and the immaterial effects produced through light and glass properties to reproduce memories and experiences as atmospheres. Gabriel holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, a master’s degree from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and a PhD from Concordia University, Montreal. Gabriel’s contributions have been recognized with several honors and fellowships, including the MITACS Globalink Research Award and the Italian Technology Award for Glass Technology. He also received grants including the Conacyt Doctoral Grant and FONCA Young Creators. Gabriel has lectured at prestigious institutions worldwide and exhibited at venues such as the Bienal FEMSA XXI and Espacio Cultural Mexico Montreal. Additionally, he has served as a lecturer at College Lasalle, Montreal and Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) – CRGS, Mexico.
Matthew Hutchinson
As an architect, educator, and maker, Matt Hutchinson believes in the reciprocal relationship between designing and making. Interest in the potentials for convergence between traditional technique and digital process inform his own architecture and design practice – PATH where material and fabrication experiments are the core working method. Recently relocated from California where he was a resident in Autodesk’s Pier 9 AiR program and an adjunct faculty at the California College of the Arts, Matt is now an Assistant Professor at the Kent State College of Architecture and Environmental Design.
Davin Ebanks
Davin K. Ebanks is a Caribbean-American sculptor from the Cayman Islands whose work explores his cultural history. He has shown his work at SOFA Chicago, CONTEXT Miami, The Sculpture Center in Ohio, and The Delaware Contemporary. His sculptures are in the collections of His Royal Highness, King Charles, the National Gallery of Cayman, and the Kerry & Betty C Davis Collection of African American Art. Davin’s work has been published in A-Z of Caribbean Art, a multi-national survey of contemporary Caribbean artists and been included in the multinational online exhibition Banana Craze, published by the Universidad de los Andes. Ebanks is currently Associate Professor (Head) of Glass at Kent State University.
About Momentum | Intersection
The Momentum | Intersection glass program is part of the Momentum Festival suite of programming. The Momentum Festival is generously sponsored by NGS Inc./Pilkington North America, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Toledo Museum of Art, private donors, and Toledo’s philanthropic community. If you would like details on sponsorship or more information about the event, please visit our website or contact The Arts Commission at 419-254-2787.
The Momentum | Intersection 2025 call for artists will be opening soon.
About The Arts Commission
The Arts Commission is the longest standing arts commission in the state of Ohio, founded in 1959, administering the City of Toledo’s One Percent for Art Program since 1977. The Arts Commission is supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council and by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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