10+ Years Experience
Molly Burke
Visual Artist
Available For:
Custom Commission, Collaboration, Selling Existing Work, Teaching / Residency
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About the Artist
Molly Jo Burke, b. 1984, is an Ohio based artist, educator, and researcher; with each practice overlapping. Her artwork focuses on the complexities and pressures of modern life and observation of our environment both natural and built, through the use of traditional and non-traditional art materials.Her academic research is focused on fine artists, arts entrepreneurship, and how education and policy influences their careers. Burke received her BFA in 2006 from Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD), MFA in glass sculpture in 2009 from The Ohio State University (OSU), and a PhD in 2024 from OSU’s Arts Administration, Education, and Policy program. She has taught at OSU, CCAD, and Corning Museum of Glass.
Her artwork has been featured nationally and internationally, most recently at Toledo Museum of Art, Illinois Wesleyan University, Columbus Museum of Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.
Mirrored blown and hot sculpted glass
Blown and hot glass sculpture with silicone.
2022, Acrylic on Wenge Plywood, Blown Glass, Box Elder Maple, Beads, 48x24x14”
Mirrored, blown, and hot sculpted glass.
An installation of water jet cut plate glass coated with dichroic film hung in a space for people to walk through. Glass is cut into leaf shapes and hung from bundles of branches taken from native plants to Ohio.
