ERICA H ADAMS Contributing Editor

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR of GLASS IS MORE!, Erica H. Adams is an artist who writes about the arts, is a curator, lecturer and is faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University where she teaches painting and has taught glass, a program in Venice, Italy and workshops in Chiapas, Mexico. Adams is a regular visiting critic for university departments of glass and design.

In 2013, on her sabbatical, Adams gave a lecture series on 20^th Century U.S. art and architecture in relation to E.U, in Padua, Italy and, in Chiapas, Mexico, co-curated Respeto/Respect with the director of the Chiapas Photography Project, that premieres at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music (CT).

Writing columns for the Netherland’s based quarterlies This Side Up! (Thinking Through Glass, 1997-2006) and Fjoezzz (Through the Glass/Door Het Glas, 2007-2013) Adams covered glass, the arts, design and architecture, as well as, historical figures in glass and arts biennales in Venice, Havana and New York. The editor of The Glass Age essays by Angela van der Burght and Contributing Editor of This Side Up! (1997-2006), reviews by Adams include GLASS quarterly, New York and on-line reviews of the performing arts.

As an artist, Adams’ project-based works address cultural and environmental issues from land use and climate change to contemporary violence and beauty. Working in photography, painting and installations, Adams also uses glass, virtual reality, animation and other media. She was a Visiting Artist at the Chiapas Photography Project, in Mexico (2000), and Rhode Island School of Design Glass Department (2005) Adams’ work is in Polaroid International Collection, Germany and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and many private collections.

Adams’s connection to glass developed through her origins in watercolor and a fascination with how color could be altered through layers and chemical interactions of pigment. The layers of luminosity in Turner’s watercolors and Vermeer paintings rivaled her fascination with how light reflected on water. Later, inspired by the invention of the digital photograph she layered and altered fragments of photographs in a similar way to how John La Farge layered and altered fragments of stained glass in Trinity Church, in Boston. Adams’ first use of glass in sculptures was a direct result of seeing the Blaschka’s painted glass models of flowers at Harvard’s Peabody Museum.

For the past decade, Adams lives by the ocean on Cape Cod where she curates exhibits, writes and works in her studio. Adams is faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University.

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