Robert Levin (aka Rob Levin)

Robert Levin was born and raised in Baltimore and currently lives and works near Burnsville, NC. He creates a variety of work, including utilitarian items, frosted sculptural vessels, and larger scale mixed-media sculptures, many of which are influenced by Japanese architecture arid African art. He was formerly the Resident Glass Artist at Penland School of Crafts, and has taught in many exotic places such as Ireland, New Zealand, Rochester, Cleveland and Penland. He has exhibited widely in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and the former Soviet Union. His work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Contemporary Glass Museum in Madrid, the Mint Museum, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC, and the Ebeltoft Glasmuseum in Denmark.

He has received a Southern Arts Federation/NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, two North Carolina. Arts Council Fellowships, and a NCAC Project Grant. He has served on the Board of Trustees for Penland School of Crafts and Piedmont Craftsmen, and the Board of Directors of the Glass Art Society, and is also a member of the Southern Highlands Craft Guild and Tri-State Sculptors. His work has been featured in magazines such as American Craft, New Zealand Crafts, Craft Arts International, New Glass Review, as well as in books such as An Introduction to Visual Literacy, Contemporary American Craft Art, Contemporary Glass, Masterpieces of American Glass, 500 Glass Objects, Judaic Artisans Today and 100 Southern Artists. He is included in Who's Who in American Art, The Dictionary of International Biography, and Who's Who in America.

He describes his work as "sort of a blend of Late Venetian and Early Neurotic."

[Source: Museum Staff]