Jacci Delaney Glass Art

 Jacci Delaney has worked with glass for 17 years now developing her skills in glassblowing, glass casting, and cold-working. She first studied at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and received a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts specializing in glass in 2008, a BA in Art history with a Minor in Museum Studies. She worked in a glass studio for three years and then moved to Columbus, OH in 2011 to attend graduate school at The Ohio State University. She earned her MFA in 2014 with her thesis focusing on glass, sculpture, and holograms. Delaney was recently a lecturer at OSU and the Glass Studio Coordinator at the Columbus College of Art & Design. Delaney is now a fulltime artist and she will be giving a Lecture-Demo titled “Experimental Casting: Putting Plaster Silica on anything” at the 2020 Glass Art Society Conference in Sweden next May. Her professional recognitions included being selected to show her work in the exhibition “Vetro Illuminato: Illuminated Glass” in Murano, Italy in 2018 along with a residency at Berengo Studios, having the Space Light Artist Residency and solo exhibition at the Holocenter on Governor’s Island, NY in summer 2017, receiving the Emerging Artist Lecture Award at the Glass Art Society Conference in 2015, and having her work in the Emerge exhibition from Bullseye Glass in 2018.