Dani Collette

bio

Dani Collette is a glass artist with a BFA in Sculpture and Glass specializing in Stained Glass. She received her degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2013 and has been working with Glass ever since. Although Stained Glass is her current focus, she also incorporates Blown and Kiln-Formed Glass into her art practice. She is inspired by bright colors, light and line work.

artist statement

Glass is a medium with a language of fragility and strength, transparency and opacity, stillness and movement; playing with those dichotomies is the fulcrum of my work. I look to create magic moments between the viewer and the properties of light as it passes through colored and textured glass. Creating with the intention of challenging the expectations of what glass is and what it can be is the most important ingredient, along with a healthy dose of play as a practice of fulfillment for the audience as well as the maker.

exhibitions