biography
Kristen Marie Weber
visual artist | two- and three dimensional kiln-formed glass
When her favorite high-school art instructor told Kristen Weber she had the natural disposition of a glass artist, she had no idea that creating with glass would develop into a consuming passion two decades later. The path to glass was paved by a continual interest in visual arts and design-related work. Weber studied printmaking with Fran Noel at Montana State University; the only accredited art school in the Rocky Mountains in the late 70s. While attending Montana State University, Weber pursued additional studies in philosophy and biological sciences reflecting a life-long fascination with the intricacies of living creatures and how they interact with, and relate to the world around them. During this time, she was accepted at Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts in Printmaking. The transition from printing inks to her particular style of kiln-formed glass was a natural given similar attention to layering of color and imagery, transparency manipulation, and processes that require attentiveness and patience.
Weber began working with glass as a medium in 1993 through independent studies in stained glass and kiln-formed glass. She proceeded to increase her working knowledge of kiln-formed and stained glass techniques throughout her years in publishing and human-computer interface design of custom software applications. The opportunity to study studio glass with Jim Engebretson at University of Wisconsin, River Falls further opened up the world of blown, hot cast, and kiln-formed glass. She is currently pursuing a career in visual arts working with glass; a medium that holds her rapt with its possibilities and similarities to human physical nature, self-concept and soul.
