Megan Stelljes
& Sarah Blood

MEGAN STELLJES

Arlington, WA

MEGAN STELLJES: A graduate of Emporia State University’s glass program, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. She relocating to Washington state to apprentice under glass sculptor Karen Willenbrink-Johnson. Through tutelage from artist Jeremy Bert, Megan has expanded her practice to include neon, and has exhibited her work at the Museum of Neon Art. In 2019, she has exhibited work in neon and glass, as part of An Alternative History: The Other Glass, at the Heller Gallery in New York City as well as As in Also, at the Traver Gallery in Seattle; curated exhibitions looking at the lesser known history and conceptual practitioners from outside of the studio glass movement and internationally, at the Sabbia Gallery, in Sydney Australia, as well as New Glass Now at the Corning Museum of Glass. Indicative Stelljes unique approach to glass, she combines the two, neon and blown glass to poignant ends.

SARAH BLOOD

Alfred, NY

SARAH BLOOD: Born in the UK, Sarah Blood is an artist, curator and educator. She has enjoyed an active studio practice since 1999, exhibiting her work throughout the UK, Europe and the United Arab Emirates as well as Hong Kong, China and the United States. 

Notable group shows include Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now (2018) at the Neuberger Museum NY, where her work was shown alongside the works of Glenn Ligon, Ivan Navarro and Cerith Wyn Evans; Bending Brilliance (2016) at the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, with Bruce Nauman; and She Bends: Women in Neon (2017) at the Museum of Neon, Los Angeles, a groundbreaking exhibition of all female identifying neon artists from around the world.

Most recently Blood was commissioned to make Luna Fossil XI to be included in the permanent collection at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland UK.

Blood currently lives and works in Alfred NY, where she is a tenured professor within the division of Sculpture|Dimensional Studies, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, NY