Article: “Temple University Professor Wins Award For Glass Making”
February 2022
Thank you Temple News for this article covering the Saxe Emerging Artist Award!
Saxe Emerging Artist Award Recipient
I’m honored to have received the 2022 Saxe Emerging Artist Award from the Glass Art Society! I will be giving a lecture on my work in Tacoma this May at the Glass Art Society Conference.
Interview with Philly Maker Faire Podcast
October 2021
I’m excited to share this podcast discussion I had with Philly Maker Faire! We talk about my work; performance art, teaching, and philosophy of flameworking. This was such a fun interview and probably one of the best discussions I've had lately. Please check it out!
Here is a feature of my work on the Philly Maker Fair Blog!
Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2021
I am thrilled to be part of the Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2021 at the 富山市ガラス美術館 Toyama Glass Art Museum in Japan, and honored to be showing work among 45 other incredible artists.
Online Virtual Tour of the exhibition
My piece, “Take it All In” is a series of photographs documenting a performance. The exhibition is up from June through October 3rd. This is my first time showing work in Japan.
About the exhibition: The TIG exhibition is an international, open-submission triennial that showcases outstanding works of contemporary glass art from around the world. Bringing together the latest achievements in glass art, it contributes to that art’s further development throughout the world. Out of 1,126 entries from fifty-one countries, 45 works were selected.
Documentary: The Making of "Woven Light"
A documentary filmed by my Chenyue Yang, showing the behind the scenes of making my 2021 film "Woven Light"
Documentary Trailer: “The Making of Woven Light”
Full documentary on Youtube
UrbanGlass Exhibition “Flesh of My Flesh”
I am honored to be featured in UrbanGlass’s MFA Exhibition, “Flesh of My Flesh.” Up from June 2nd – August 27th, 2021
Featured Artists: Anna Lehner, Efrat Lipkin, Jessi Li, Kayla Cantu, Madeline Rile Smith
Curated by Baseera Kahn.
About the show: Flesh of my Flesh is a five person, juried group exhibition whose title is borrowed from a decade-long project by Kaja Silverman, a book of essays, published in 2009. The themes of each essay in Silverman’s writing range from the space between two people, the psychology behind love and desire, and relational constructs that give one their sense of self. The curator looks to the artists in this exhibition to reveal how the femme-identifying body takes on these analogies through the materialities of glass, creating objects that visualize the gaps between exile and kinship. Over time societal mythologies and storytelling have looked to glass and its inherent properties as a raw material to interpret legacies of individuality. One’s ability to see their own reflection can directly influence their care towards the “other.” Using glass as a conceptual lens to complicate dominant narratives of psychology, the artists in Flesh of my Flesh dive deep into personal subject positions to expose the vulnerabilities of movement, modification, and breathing.
Museum of Arts and Design “What Can You Do With Glass?”
Thank you to the Museum of Arts and Design for including my work “Instrument for Connection and Compromise” in this video for the exhibition "Craft Front & Center" at MAD! I’m thrilled to be included among this amazing group of artists.
The exhibition up now through Feb 13, 2022 at Museum of Arts and Design in NYC. You can see the full video on MAD Museum's website!
Video created by collections curator Samantha De Tillio. Producer: Liam Harrison
Glass Meet the Future 2021 Podcast: Madeline Rile Smith
In this episode Brandi Clark, board member of NLC and Executive Director of the Glass Arts Society, speaks to glass artist Madeline Rile Smith, in Rochester New York, discussing, community, collaboration, performance and creativity during a global pandemic. In her work Madeline uses glass as a performative vehicle to consider notions of intimacy, compromise, and embodiment.
For Glass, Meet the Future Film Festival 2021 Madeline has created a collaborative performance-based work named “Woven Light”
“RIT Glass Artists Featured in Global Film Festival”
Article by RIT College of Art and Design,
March 17, 2021 by Aaron Garland
“There is so much more to glass than focusing on static objects,” Smith said. “I like to embrace the ephemeral, action-based qualities of glass — exploring time, movement and interaction with the body — and video is the perfect medium for that.”
Artist Commission Award- Glass Meet the Future Film Festival 2021
North Lands Creative
I’m excited to share that I was commissioned to make a film for Glass Meet the Future Film Festival with North Lands Creative! In this film we will be weaving a luminous collaborative structure, through an experimental, textile-inspired processes approaching glass as thread.
The film “Woven Light” premieres March 29th, 2021.
Link to the film festival program
Press Release for the artist commission awards
Thanks for North Lands Creative and project partners Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Toyama Glass Art Museum and Museum of Arts and Design, New York.
Virtual Guest Artist Demonstrator at the International Glass Art Lampwork Festival in Mingshangde Glass Museum, Hejian City, China
December 2020
These videos are the virtual demonstrations that I gave for the International Glass Art Lampwork Festival in Mingshangde Glass Museum, Hejian City, China
December 2020
Interview in The Furniture Society Noise/Maker's Series
"Madeline Rile Smith, Musical Instruments Made in Glass"
December 2020
Tom Rooney Award Recipient- Sculpture Now 2020
October 2020
I'm honored that my piece “Instrument for Connection and Compromise” received the Tom Rooney Award in Sculpture NOW 2020! It was an amazing exhibition featuring a great variety of work with the Washington Sculptor’s Group. Thanks to juror Nancy Sausser, and to McLean Project for the Arts!
New Glass Review 41
September 2020
I am honored to have my work included in New Glass Review #41, published by the Corning Museum of Glass. This annual publication features 100 exciting artists working in glass.
“Instrument for Connection and Compromise”
Recent Interview on "A Glassblower’s Companion Podcast "Madeline Rile Smith: Pushing the Personal Bubble Through Glassical Instruments,"
September 2020
The latest episode of “A Glassblower’s Companion” features an in-depth interview about my work and glass musical instruments. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!
From the publication:
This episode features the talented Madeline Rile Smith who’s current focus is creating glass musical instruments that push the boundaries of human comfortability. Merging the scientific glass blowing with creative instrument making, Madeline's has created a body of work that creates an intimate experience between glass instruments and the musicians who play them.
"Artist Short Sesh Interview, Ep. 2 Madeline Rile Smith" with RIT City Art Space
July 2020
I’m excited to be featured in an episode of the Artist Short Sesh with RIT City Art Space! We discuss my controversial glass blowing and I do an exclusive performance for the show!
Check out @ritcityartspace to see it, or check out the youtube link.
Artist of the Week: Madeline Rile Smith, Glassroots Magazine
April 2017
From the article:
“Madeline Rile Smith’s glass works are manipulated into exoskeletal forms; exciting the curious and coming alive with its shadows while simultaneously executing her goal of defying existing expectations about glass, carrying a sense of mystery and encouraging the viewer to question how it came to be.”