Carol Milne


Carol Milne is an internationally recognized Canadian American sculptor living in Seattle, Washington. She is best known for her Knitted Glass work, winning the Silver Award, in the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa Japan 2010.

Education

Milne's education included:
Amazon Headquarters, Seattle, WA
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Glasmuseum Lette,  Coesfeld, Germany
The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey
Gustav Selter GmbH & Co KG, Germany
The Kamm Teapot Foundation, Sparta, NC
MusVerre Nord, Sars Poteries, France
Notojima Glass Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan
UVU Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT all above

Articles and Interviews

Woven Glass: Artist Carol Milne knits delicate sculptures
Artbeat NW 10-08-19 Glass Artist Carol Milne Artbeat Northwest Arts and Culture Podcast
Seattle Magazine Arts and Culture. Amazon Studios: Inside the Tech Giant's Employee Art Programs

Career

Milne graduated in 1985 from the University of Guelph, Ontario, majoring in Landscape Architecture.
After a short stint at a landscape architect's office, Milne worked at a pre-press graphics shop managing a small group of digital typesetters. In 1988–89 she was a graduate student in the University of Iowa's MFA program in sculpture.

Licton Springs Park

From 1993 to 1996, Milne re-designed the Licton Springs, Seattle Playground in Seattle, Washington.
Working with ceramicist Lisa Halverson, and community volunteers, they worked with local school children to make urban wildlife tiles that were incorporated into the park design.
Since 2000, Milne has worked primarily in glass, although knitting also plays a major part in her non-glass sculptures. See, for example, "Grow Lights".

Knitted Glass

In 2006, Milne created "Knitted Glass", incorporating the techniques of Knitting, lost-wax casting, mold-making, and kiln-casting. As Milne describes in, "Knitting wasn't yet cool...": The process involves knitting the original art piece using wax strands, surrounding the wax with a heat-tolerant refractory material, then removing the wax by melting it out, thus creating a mold; the mold is placed in a kiln where lead crystal "frit" heated to 1,530 Fahrenheit melts into the mold; after the mold has cooled, the mold material is removed to reveal the finished piece within.

Books

E-BOOK - In the Name of Love
E-BOOK - Knitted Glass: kiln cast lead crystal bowls by Carol Milne
E-BOOK - Glass Slippers by Carol Milne
E-BOOK Carol Milne Knitted Glass by Steve Isaacson
Carol Milne Knitted Glass: How Does She Do That? Paperback

Recognition

Notable Exhibitions

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donation. See 2017 Women's March.
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