Mark Kobasz

artist, educator

Mark has made art for 40+ years, primarily working with cast glass. His main inspirations lie in minimalism, architecture, object sentimentality, and folk art.

Glass in combination with wood, metal, and other mixed media are a constant in his work. He is fascinated by the combination of crystalline and rough sand surfaces, the ability of glass to be both transparent and a solid, the tactility conveyed in material texture. For the last several years, he has taken to kiln-worked, etched, and printed glass processes used in combination with other materials which he designs and creates in his studio in Bucks County, PA.

Mark has been an instructor at Tyler School of Art and taught workshops at Sheridan, Tulane, Mass Art, Alfred, Pilchuck, and Hands-on-Glass. He was an Artist-in-Education with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for several years, and is currently a high school art teacher and the district supervisor of the art department at Springfield Township School District in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 

background

Mark has a BFA from Tyler and an MAT from University of the Arts. He has three fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, an Artist As Catalyst 2000 grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and is a two-time Creative Glass Center of America Fellow. His work is in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Arco Chemical Company, Deloit Tauche Corporation, Merck Corporation, and the Wustum Museum of Fine Art.