Welcome to my online portfolio and biography, with images of my drawings, installations and hot glass designs
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JILLALLAN
Originally from Vancouver Island, Jill Allan is an artist living in Edmonton Alberta Canada. She travelled to Ohio in 2011 to undertake her MFA at Bowling Green State University and graduated in 2013. She has worked to design, make and promote her own work as an artist since graduating from ACAD in 1999. Jill says, ‘I think of myself as a hybrid: designer/craft-maker/artist. I love the idea of crossover between these different approaches to working.’ Her work can be found in the collection of ACAD Calgary, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, the Corning Museum of Glass New York, Kirkwood Community College Iowa, and the Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver. In addition to maintaining her art practice Jill has worked as an arts administrator, a curator, and an educator.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2013 MFA - BGSU, Ohio, USA
1999 BFA - ACAD, Calgary, Canada
Professional Experience
2020-24 Alberta Craft Council Exhibitions Coordinator
2016-20 ACAD, School of Craft and Emerging Media,
Glass Area, Calgary Canada
2014 KCC, Humanities Department, 3D Arts, Glass, Iowa
2013 KCC, Humanities Department, 3D Arts, Glass, Iowa
BGSU, School of Art, 3D Art Area, Glass, Ohio
2012 BGSU, School of Art, First Year Studies, Ohio
Exhibitions
2024 Interrupted Bubble, The Works Festival, Edmonton, CA
2023. Water Studies, Kulturkollektiv Goetheschule, Lauscha DE
Northern Lights Exhibition, Duncan McLelland Gallery
St Petersburg, FL, USA
2020 Bluestockings Feminist Artists Collective, Coe College
Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
2019 Spotlight, Alberta Craft Gallery, Calgary, CA
2018 Crash Currents, Gilded Pear Gallery, IA, USA
2017 Milestones, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, BGSU, OH, USA
Finding Common Ground - Making Treaty 7 Cultural
Society, the esker, Calgary, CA
2015 Design in Canada Outstanding Achievement From British
Columbia House Gallery, Canadian High Commission,
London UK
2014 {sic} In Transit, Iowa Hall Gallery, Kirkwood Community
College,Cedar Rapids, IA, USA (solo)
2013 Winter Light Iowa Hall Gallery, Kirkwood Community
College, IA, USA (solo)
Aperture, MFA thesis exhibition, Wankelman Gallery,
BGSU, OH, USA (solo)
Awards and Artist's Residencies
2024 Edmonton Arts Council, Grants for Individuals and
Collectives, Stream 2
Firehall Glass Studio - AIR - Greeneville, TN, USA
2023 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Visual Arts and New
Media Individual Project Grant
Edmonton Arts Council, Grants for Individuals and
Collectives, Stream 1
Kulturkollectiv Goethschule - AIR - Lauscha, DE
2020 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Visual Arts and New
Media Individual Project Grant
2019 Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Grant
2014 Commissioned to make and install a public artwork for
Washington Regional Educational Center, Kirkwood
Community College, Iowa
2012 Dr Alice E Wilson Fellowship Canadian Federation of
University Women
2011 Katzner Fund Graduate Research Grant BGSU, Ohio,
USA
Tuition Waiver and Graduate Stipend, BGSU, Ohio, USA
2009 Project Grant – Individual Art Awards, BC Arts Council,
Canada
Artist-in-Residence, Alberta College of Art and Design,
Canada
Honourable Mention Outside the Box Cheongju Craft
Biennale, Korea
2007 B.C. Creative Achievement Award, Achievement
Foundation, Canada
2006 Artist Residency, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning,
USA
Lectures
2022 Demonstrator, Glass Art Society Conference, Tacoma,
WA
2014 Presenter, Scientific Glassblowers Society Midwest
Section Meeting Iowa City USA
2012 Artist Lecture, Fireworks Group Exhibition Seymour
Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
2009 AiR Lecture, ACAD , Calgary, Canada
2006 AiR lecture, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA
Collections
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Canada
Making Treaty 7 Foundation, Calgary, Canada
Washington Regional Education Center, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa, USA
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA
Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada
Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
BEAM Corporate Collection Calgary, Canada
Publications
2022 Curious Discomfort - exhibition review of re(Form) , Studio
Magazine Volume 17 no. 2