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Carmen Lozar uses glass as a means manifesting emotional perception in a physical form. Lozar’s work includes diminutive celebrations of the everyday, small pieces that venerate daily life. During her undergraduate career at University of Illinois she interned at Bullseye Glass Factory in Portland, Oregon and attended Pilchuck Glass School as a Saxe award recipient and staff member. After completing her BFA she ventured to China, Indonesia, Thailand, and India to explore eastern traditional art. Upon her return she moved to the Southwest and opened a casting and flameworking facility in Tucson, Arizona.
In October of 2000, Carmen accepted a residency from Corning Museum of Glass and went on to be awarded a Master of Fine Arts from Alfred University in New York in 2003. Carmen shows regularly across the country and was a 2005 demonstrator at the International Flameworking Conference in Salem, NJ. She returned to the conference in 2008 as the featured presenter and keynote speaker. Carmen has been a demonstrating artist at The Glass Art Society Conference in St. Louis as well as a visiting artist to universities across the country. She currently resides in Bloomington-Normal where she maintains her studio and is faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University.
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