Michael Rogers 

Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Tehcnology (New York, USA)

Lianne Uesato 

Assistant Conservator at Corning Museum of Glass (New York, USA)

Judy Tuwaletstiwa  

Visual Artist, Writer, and  Teacher (New Mexico, USA)

"Enhanced Repair"

We will speak about a residency with painter Judy Tuwaletstiwa at Corning in 2017 that involved casting a glass panel in incompatible glasses knowing the panel would break. Corning Conservator Lianne Uesato was asked to join in the collaboration and make an "Enhanced Repair" bringing up several interesting questions about authorship and ethical approaches to conservation. Our project began in the Rakow Library working with librarian and researcher Beth Hylan. We became fascinated with the book De bello Judaico by Josephus, Flavius in 75-79 AD and yet written by hand in Latin in the year 1200. This research informed the direction of our residency. Michael Rogers' further ongoing projects in collaboration with Lianne Uesato after the residency will also be presented.

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Flavius Josephus’ books on Jewish history printed by Johann Schüssler in Augsburg, 1470

Michael Rogers and Judy Tuwaletstiwa | Artist-In-Residence At The Studio

Short Bio

Michael Rogers is Professor Emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Glass Program where he had taught from 2002-2018. Previously he had taught at Aichi University of Education in Japan from 1991-2002. Current curatorial projects include "The Voice of Glass Collaborative" exhibit at the Latvian National Museum in Riga, Latvia and the "Current Realities" exhibition at LEVANT Gallery in Shanghai, China. When not traveling Michael maintains his studio in the countryside of upstate New York where he is exploring the creative potential of performance art, site specificity, and installation. 

Lianne Uesato is Assistant Conservator at the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG), where she focuses on the care of modern and contemporary objects. Though primarily interested in glass, she has worked with a range of materials in private practices and museums of different sizes. She draws on this variety of experience to explore the evolving role of a conservator in institutional and professional contexts. Lianne holds an M.A. in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College and a B.A. in Art History from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Judy Tuwaletstiwa has been a visual artist, writer and teacher for fifty years. In her visual art, she has worked with different materials, including sand, mud, feathers, sticks, fiber and acrylic on canvas. In 2012, during a life-changing eighteen-month residency with Bullseye Glass, she began incorporating kiln fired glass into her work. 
Her limited-edition books, The Canyon Poem, 1997, Mapping Water, 2007, and Glass, 2016, (Radius Books) seek, through visual images and words, to embody the experience of the creative process and its relationship to the unconscious. Her book, Glass, concentrates on that process with kiln-fired glass. Her works reside in numerous private, corporate and public collections.