Robert Bender
Robert Bender
In 1984, he graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Illustration. From 1984-1992 he in Freelance editorial illustration. Clients included New York Times, Psychology Today, Billboard Magazine, many periodicals, pharmaceutical, and educational publishers. From 1992-2008, he as a writer and illustrator of children’s picture books. In 2009, after assisting his wife for many years in various aspects of her glass casting, he began his own work in glass sculpting.
In 2011 I was included in New Glass Review 33, published by Corning Glass Museum, New York.
2012 40th Annual International Glass Invitational Awards Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan, full color catalogue.
2012 Glass Invitational 50 Anniversary Studio Glass Movement, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
2013 Glass Weekend, Millville, NJ
2014 “Figure It” exhibition at Ohio Craft Museum
2014 42nd Annual International Glass Invitational Awards Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan, full color catalogue.
2014 “Teapots 8” Invitational, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery.
