Elizabeth Ware Perkins

BIOGRAPHY

Elizabeth Ware Perkins was born and raised in a rural farming community in Virginia by an agriculturalist and a high school science teacher. On a third grade field trip to the Jamestown Glasshouse, she became enamored with glass blowing. After earning her BFA in sculpture from the Atlanta College of Art and studying glass at the California College of Arts and Crafts, she returned to the Jamestown Glasshouse to study as an apprentice. Following this glass apprenticeship, she began assisting other artists who worked with the material. She received her MFA in crafts and material studies, glass from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been a Fellow at The Creative Glass Center of America and an Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School. She is currently a visiting artist at Campbell's Ceramics. Her work has been published and reviewed in New Glass Review. She has exhibited in group and solo shows including those at the Virginia Center for Architecture, the Gallery of Fine Craft at Wheaton Village, Pilchuck Gallery, This Century Gallery, Anderson Gallery, and the Charles Taylor Arts Center. She has been an adjunct glass professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and headed the glass program at Tidewater Community College during the spring semester of 2005. She has also studied and received scholarships from Penland School of Crafts. She has studied with Jack Wax, Boyd Sugiki, Lisa Zerkowitz, and Therman Statom.

She lives and makes work in Bumpass, Virginia, on a farm that has been in her family for seven generations.