Faculty & Staff Faculty :: Laurel Porcari

Teaching

• Design, Theory

Additional Teaching

• Instructor, New Orleans Creative Glass Institute
• Instructor, Bullseye Glass
• Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School
• Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
• Lecturer (Associate Professor) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
• Adjunct design faculty, University of Western Australia, Perth
• Adjunct design faculty, Curtin University, Western Australia

Administration

• Architecture Gallery Coordinator, 1997-2000

Awards & honors

• Louisiana Division of the Arts, individual artist grant, 2997
• Surdna Foundation, education grant, NOCGI + Priestley, 2007
• Rosamary Foundation, development grant, NOCGI, 2006
• Keller Foundation, development grant, NOCGI, 2006
• Louisiana Division of the Arts, capacity building, NOCGI, 2006
• Bullseye Glass, resident artist, 2005
• New Orleans Arts Council, individual artist grant, 2006
  Pilchuck, partner scholar, 2003

Commissions, collections & exhibitions (selected)

• Curry/Stone, Bend, Oregon
• Jones/Kroloff, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
• Cahill, Sydney, Australia
• Rappaport, Washington, DC
• Rocah, Baltimore, Maryland
• Koss, New Orleans, Lousiana
• Breaux, New Orleans, Louisiana
• City of Yonkers, NY
• Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Brunner Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• Soren Chistenson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington
• Tulane University, Newcomb Art Department
• Tulane University, School of Architecture

Professional

• Porcari Fine Arts & NOKO Studio for architectural kiln formed glass, New Orleans, LA (sole proprietorship)
• New Orleans Creative Glass Institute, founding Board Director & Education V.P.
• Education Committee, Priestley Charter High School
• Member: Glass Art Society, Public Art Network/Americans for the Arts, AIA Associate, Women’s Caucus for the Arts

To see article about Laurel Porcari in American Craft Magazine click here.