Naas, Lisa - Contemporary Glass Society

Email:lnaas@icloud.com

Website:http://www.inconcertwithglass.com

Region:World

World country:United States

Technique:Casting, Hot glass, Kiln work

Occupation:Artist, Educator, Student

Discipline:Design, Fine art, Installation, Other

Areas of Interest:Competitions, Conferences, Exhibition, Publications

Country:United States

You can buy my work from:
https://www.inconcertwithglass.com/
https://www.inconcertwithglass.com/women-leaders-in-glass
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/womenleadersinglass

Social media Links:
https://www.instagram.com/women_in_glass_art/

Lisa Naas

Lisa is a conceptual glass artist, a researcher, and an experienced arts industry leader. She earned her MFA in Glass (2015) from Edinburgh College of Art and her creative practice pushes glass in new directions. Her collaborative work combining glass, sound, and engineering earned the Ingenious Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering (2015). In 2022, she was awarded her PhD from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) for her creative, non-traditional dissertation and her research on ideation and glass creativity. Alongside her creative practice, she focuses on a project to celebrate and recognize contemporary women leaders in glass art and design. Her experience includes training in studio art and art history as well as a twenty-year professional career in arts administration that involved extensive work with the Tanglewood Music Festival. There she met her counterpart and partner, composer David Faleris. They work, live, and create together in Maryland, United States.

I am currently working on a project focused on the women leaders shaping 21st-century glass, which aims to identify at least 25 important women leaders shaping the contemporary glass landscape, and to examine how their roles, contributions, and activities are influencing glass. I have been chipping away at this project since 2024 and its official launch took place in Fall 2025, when the Glass Art Society selected my panel proposal for the June 2026 Conference at Corning Museum of Glass. There, I will moderate a discussion on the subject with three contemporary women leaders in glass: Tami Landis, Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, Brandi Clark, Executive Director of GAS, and Dr. Jessamy Kelly, Head of Design and Senior Lecturer in Glass and Ceramics at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA). In the meantime, I am sifting through literature and collecting data through a survey linked through my website.