Toots Zynsky

American glass artist

Toots Zynsky

Born|

Mary Ann Zynsky

1951 (age 73-74)
Nationality| American
Alma mater| Rhode Island School of Design
Style| glass art
Bird of Paradise, 1987, in the Speed Art Museum

Mary Ann Zynsky, better known as Toots Zynsky, (born 1951) is an American glass artist.

## Early life

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A native of Boston, Zynsky was known as "Toots" almost from the time she was born. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving her BFA before traveling to Seattle to work at the Pilchuck Glass School under Dale Chihuly; she has continued to return there as an instructor.[1] In 1970, She spent six months in the 1980s in Ghana researching the local music.

## Career

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Zynsky's work is known for featuring the filet-de-verre technique, which she pioneered, in which fine threads are pulled from glass canes.[1][2] Zynsky has shown her work at exhibitions worldwide. In 1988 she was awarded the Rakow Commission for work added to The Corning Museum of Glass.[3] She designed the torch, in the shape of a prosthetic limb, for the 2002 Paralympic Winter Games.[2] She was a resident artist at the Corning Museum of Glass in 2016.[4] In 2008 she was named to the American Craft Council College of Fellows.[5]

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum[6][7] and the Seattle Art Museum.[8]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Toots Zynsky.

## References

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1. ^ a b Wright, Diane C. (2011). "New Glass at the Yale University Art Gallery". Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: 33. ISSN 0084-3539. JSTOR 41421506.
2. ^ a b "Toots Zynsky". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Archived from the original on 25 September 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
3. ^ "Rakow Commission Awarded". Journal of Glass Studies. 30: 122–123\. 1988. ISSN 0075-4250. JSTOR 24190813.
4. ^ "Toots Zynsky". Corning Museum of Glass. 2016. Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
5. ^ "Toots Zynsky". American Craft Council. Archived from the original on 28 September 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
6. ^ "Toots Zynsky, Hot Chaos IV, 1996". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Archived from the original on 5 March 2024. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
7. ^ "Toots Zynsky, Tiger FM, ca. 1992". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Archived from the original on 5 March 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
8. ^ "Artists - Mary Ann 'Toots' Zynsky". Seattle Art Museum. Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.

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American Craft Council College of Fellows

Honorary Fellows are listed in italics.

1975|

* Adda Husted Andersen
* Dorothy Meredith
* Ed Rossbach
* Frans Wildenhain
* Harvey Littleton
* Lenore Tawney
* Lili Blumenau
* Peter Voulkos
* Sam Maloof
* Toshiko Takaezu
* Trude Guermonprez
* Florence Eastmead
* Francis Sumner Merritt
* Margaret Patch
* Mary Lyon
* Maurine Roberts
* Rudolph Schaeffer

1976|

* Charles Loloma
* Else Regensteiner
* John Paul Miller
* Karen Karnes
* Laura Anderson
* Ronald Hayes Pearson
* Ruth Penington
* Anna Wetherill Olmsted
* Lloyd Kiva New

1977|

* Alice Kagawa Parrott
* Daniel Rhodes
* Don Reitz
* John Prip
* Mary Caroline Richards
* Ramona Solberg
* Robert C. Turner
* Aileen Osborn Webb

1978|

* Alma Eikerman
* Bob Stocksdale
* Dominick Labino
* Frederick Miller
* Jack Lenor Larsen
* L. Brent Kington
* Mary Walker Phillips
* Rudolf Staffel
* Rudy Autio
* Eugenia Campbell Nowlin

1979|

* Arline Fisch
* George Nakashima
* Gerry Williams
* Hans Christensen
* Katherine Westphal
* Joan Mondale
* Margery Anneberg
* Rose Slivka
* William Brown

1980|

* Bernard Kester
* Joel Myers
* Margret Craver
* Mary Nyburg
* Tage Frid
* Warren MacKenzie
* Eudorah Moore
* Robert W. Gray

1983|

* Douglass Morse Howell
* F. Carlton Ball
* Mary Ann Scherr
* Ruth Duckworth
* Sheila Hicks
* Marian Heard
* Susan Peterson

1985|

* John Mason
* Kay Sekimachi
* Marianne Strengell
* Maurice Heaton
* Richard Thomas
* Ted Randall
* Harold Brennan
* Sydney Butchkes

1986|

* Dale Chihuly
* Kenneth Ferguson
* Wendell Castle

1987|

* Beatrice Wood
* Claire Zeisler
* Dominic Di Mare
* Edward Moulthrop
* Heikki Seppä
* June Schwarcz
* Richard DeVore
* Robert Sperry
* Val Cushing
* Carlyle Smith
* James Wallace
* Jonathan Fairbanks
* LaMar Harrington

1988|

* Albert Green
* Arthur Carpenter
* C. Carl Jennings
* Frances Senska
* Fritz Dreisbach
* Glen Kaufman
* Harrison McIntosh
* Mark Peiser
* Mary Scheier
* James McKinnell
* Nan Bangs McKinnell
* Paul Soldner
* Phillip Fike
* Polly Lada-Mocarski
* Ted Hallman
* Walter G. Nottingham
* William Daley
* C. Malcolm Watkins
* James Melchert
* Lloyd Herman
* Marion Stroud Swingle
* Paul J. Smith
* Rudy Turk

1990|

* Edris Eckhardt
* Frances Stewart Higgins
* Francis Whitaker
* Gertrud Natzler
* Lillian Elliott
* Margaret Tafoya
* Michael Higgins
* Otto Heino
* Otto Natzler
* Viktor Schreckengost
* Vivika Heino
* Blanche Reeves
* R. Leigh Glover

1992|

* Cynthia Schira
* David Shaner
* Edgar Anderson
* Joyce Anderson
* James 'Mel' Someroski
* Karl Martz
* Kurt Matzdorf
* Marvin Lipofsky
* Robert Arneson
* Stanley Lechtzin
* Walker Weed
* Helen Drutt English
* Mildred Constantine
* Ruth DeYoung Kohler

1993|

* Betty Woodman
* Gerhardt Knodel
* Jere Osgood
* John Marshall
* Kenneth Price
* Margarete Seeler
* Oppi Untracht
* Robert G. Hart

1994|

* Albert Paley
* Henry Halem
* John McQueen
* Merry Renk
* Patti Warashina
* Robert Ebendorf
* Rude Osolnik
* Stephen De Staebler
* Viola Frey
* Lee Nordness

1995|

* Charles Counts
* Ferne Jacobs
* Fred Fenster
* J. Fred Woell
* Karl Drerup
* Richard Marquis
* Wayne Higby
* Michael Monroe

1996|

* Betty Cooke
* Claude Horan
* Garry Knox Bennett
* Helena Hernmarck
* Jun Kaneko
* Kenneth Bates
* Mark Levine
* Mary Lee Hu
* Jean Griffith
* Virginia Harvey

1997|

* Chunghi Choo
* Jack Earl
* Ka Kwong Hui
* Lia Cook
* Bob Winston
* Ron Nagle
* Tommy Simpson
* William Keyser
* Sandra Blain

1998|

* Dan Dailey
* Edwin Scheier
* Eleanor Moty
* James Bassler
* Judy McKie
* Richard Mawdsley
* Richard Shaw
* William Harper
* Paulus Berensohn

1999|

* Dorothy Gill Barnes
* Helen Shirk
* Irena Brynner
* Nancy Crow
* Paul Marioni
* Ralph Baccera
* Therman Statom
* Fred Marer

2000|

* Adrian Saxe
* Anne Wilson
* Cynthia Bringle
* Eugene Pijanowski
* Hiroko Sato-Pijanowski
* James Krenov
* Joyce Scott
* Marjorie Schick
* Paul Joseph Stankard
* Christa C. Mayer Thurman
* Theodore Cohen

2001|

* David Ellsworth
* Gary Noffke
* Joan Livingstone
* John Glick
* Michael James
* Norman Schulman
* Thomas Patti
* Warren Seelig
* Alice Rooney

2002|

* Harlan Butt
* Jane Sauer
* John Cederquist
* Paula Winokur
* Robert Winokur
* Garth Clark

2003|

* Ana Lisa Hedstrom
* James Tanner
* Kurt Weiser
* Norma Minkowitz
* Tom Joyce
* Albert LeCoff

2005|

* Alphonse Mattia
* Flora Mace
* Gary Griffin
* Joey Kirkpatrick
* Linda Threadgill
* Patricia Hickman
* Martha Longenecker

2006|

* Akio Takamori
* Howard Ben Tré
* Jason Pollen
* Kiff Slemmons
* Walter Hamady
* Stuart Kestenbaum

2007|

* Arturo Sandoval
* Marilyn da Silva
* Mark Lindquist
* Richard Notkin
* Robert Brady
* William Morris
* Nanette L. Laitman

2008|

* Adela Akers
* Glenda Arentzen
* Gyöngy Laky
* John Horn
* Robyn Horn
* Tony Hepburn
* Toots Zynsky
* Wendy Maruyama
* Lois Moran

2009|

* Benjamin Moore
* Bernard Bernstein
* Carol Shaw-Sutton
* Jamie Bennett
* Louis Marak
* Rosanne Somerson
* Robert Pfannebecker

2010|

* Ginny Ruffner
* John Garrett
* John Stephenson
* Rebecca Medel
* Ron Ho
* Susanne Stephenson
* William Hunter
* Janet Koplos

2012|

* Andrea Gill
* Anne Currier
* Dante Marioni
* Lewis Knauss
* Sharon Church
* Sherri Smith
* Thomas Loeser
* Bruce Pepich

2014|

* John Gill
* Jane Lackey
* Michael Hurwitz
* Judith Schaechter
* Bruce Metcalf
* William Carlson
* Tina Oldknow

2016|

* Nick Cave
* Michael Cooper
* Françoise Grossen
* Chris Gustin
* Myra Mimlitsch-Gray
* Hank Murta Adams
* Edward S. Cooke Jr.

2018|

* Mark Burns
* Thomas Gentille
* Thomas Hucker
* Mary Jackson
* Beth Lipman
* Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
* Susan Cummins
* Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada

2020|

* Sonya Clark
* Lisa Gralnick
* Katherine Gray
* Annabeth Rosen
* Bob Trotman
* Patricia Malarcher

2022|

* Teri Greeves
* Karen Hampton
* Nancy Koenigsberg
* Keith Lewis
* Kristina Madsen
* Mark Pharis
* Preston Singletary
* Tip Toland
* Carolyn Mazloomi
* Howard Risatti
* Lowery Stokes Sims

2024|

* Syd Carpenter
* Michael A. Cummings
* Einar and Jamex de la Torre
* Yuri Kobayashi
* Mark Newport
* Michael Puryear
* Diego Romero
* Lynda Watson
* Diana Baird N'Diaye
* Cindi Strauss

Recipients of the Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship
Dorothy Liebes (1970)
Anni Albers (1981)
Harvey Littleton (1983)
Lucy M. Lewis (1985)
Margret Craver (1986)
Peter Voulkos (1986)
Gerry Williams (1986)
Lenore Tawney (1987)
Sam Maloof (1988)
Ed Rossbach (1990)
John Prip (1992)
Beatrice Wood (1992)
Alma Eikerman (1993)
Douglass Morse Howell (1993)
Marianne Strengell (1993)
Robert C. Turner (1993)
John Paul Miller (1994)
Toshiko Takaezu (1994)
Rudolf Staffel (1995)
Bob Stocksdale (1995)
Jack Lenor Larsen (1996)
Ronald Hayes Pearson (1996)
June Schwarcz (1996)
Wendell Castle (1997)
Ruth Duckworth (1997)
Sheila Hicks (1997)
Kenneth Ferguson (1998)
Karen Karnes (1998)
Warren MacKenzie (1998)
Rudy Autio (1999)
Dominic Di Mare (1999)
L. Brent Kington (2000)
Cynthia Schira (2000)
Arline Fisch (2001)
Gertrud Natzler (2001)
Otto Natzler (2001)
Don Reitz (2002)
Kay Sekimachi (2002)
William Daley (2003)
Fred Fenster (2005)
Dale Chihuly (2006)
Paul Soldner (2008)
Katherine Westphal (2009)
Albert Paley (2010)
Stephen De Staebler (2012)
Betty Woodman (2014)
Gerhardt Knodel (2016)
Jun Kaneko (2018)
Joyce J. Scott (2020)
Jim Bassler (2022)
Lia Cook (2022)
Richard Marquis (2022)
Judy Kensley McKie (2022)
John McQueen (2022)
Patti Warashina (2022)
Nick Cave (2024)
Wendy Maruyama (2024)
Anne Wilson (2024)

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