Kait Rhoads

2001 MFA in Glass, Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
1993 BFA in Glass, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1989 Atrium Baccalaureate in Creative Arts, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.
Selected Career Highlights 1997-Present

Museum Exhibitions/Publications
Figge Art Museum (A Clear Mind 2008), The Carnegie Museum of Art (Viva Vetro, 2007); Katonah Museum of Art (2007, Shattering Glass); Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (2004, Italian Influence in Contemporary Glass); Museum of American Glass (2003, 20/20 Vision); Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft (Young Glass, 1997). Corning Museum New Glass Review numbers 28, 27, 26 (Curators Choice), 23, 21 and 25 Years of New Glass Review.

Museum Permanent Collections
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Toyama Institute of Glass Museum, Toyama, Japan.

Awards
Corning Museum of Glass (Residency 2008), The Creative Glass Center of America (2008 & 1997 Fellowships); Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh (2007); Pilchuck (2005-07, Professional Artist-in-Residence Program); Tacoma Museum of Glass (Artist in Residence 2008 & 2004); Dale and Doug Anderson Scholarship (2004); Fulbright Scholarship (2001-02); Glass Art Society Student Award, First Prize (2001); Anne Gould Hauberg Award (1998); Jon and Mary Shirley Scholarship (1998).

Teaching.
Faculty of the Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA. (1995-present); Northlands Creative Glass, Caithness, Scotland ; Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA; Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME; The Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL; Abate Zanetti, Murano, Italy; Emporia State University, Emporia, KS; Penland School of Craft, NC; Alfred University, Alfred, NY; The Studio at Corning Museum of Glass.

Gallery Exhibitions
11 solo exhibitions primarily at Chappell Gallery, William Traver /Vetri Galleries and numerous group exhibitions in galleries throughout USA and in Venice.