CARY RAPAPORT
Lier, Belgium
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Flameworked glass, ceramics and other media
2024
Piet Staut 2024 Klein Sculptuur, Cortewalle Castle, Beveren, East Flanders, Belgium
2023
Oh Beautiful Glass!, Barnes Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett MA
The Alchemy of Art, Florida CraftArt, St. Petersburg FL
Creating with the Fourth State of Matter: Plasma Artists in the Studio, Plasma Art Alliance and the Glass Art Society, Detroit MI
Light up the World, Sandwich Museum of Glass, Sandwich MA
2022
Oh Beautiful Glass!, Barnes Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett MA
Glass Perspectives, Newburyport Art, Newburyport MA
Stories from the Earth, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord MA
2021
Oh Beautiful Glass!, Barnes Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett MA
Light on the Horizon, Plasma Art Alliance and the Glass Art Society, Virtual exhibition
2020
2020 Solo Exhibition Planetary Porcelain, Nerikomi Sculpture by Cary Rapaport, Bromfield Gallery, Boston MA
Identity, Art Fluent, Virtual exhibition
For the Love of Earth, Arts Wayland W Gallery, Wayland MA
A Flowering of Hope, Plasma Art Alliance, Virtual exhibition
PRISM, Beacon Street Gallery, Brookline MA
2019
RAA&M National Juried Show, Rockport Art Association & Museum, Rockport MA
Oh Beautiful Glass!, Barnes Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett MA
Repetition, Replication, Variation, Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell MA
Through the Surface, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard MA
Sacred Spaces, Morini Gallery, Mansfield MA
The Bowl Show, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester MA
Motion, The Armory Café, Somerville MA
2018
Jamaica Plain Open Studios, Jamaica Plain MA
Allston Open Studios, Boston MA
Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, Scollay Square Gallery at Boston City Hall, Boston MA
2016
All Fired Up: Contemporary Clay Sculpture, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
Art100, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
Spring Show and Sale, Feet of Clay Studio, Brookline Massachusetts
2015
Art100, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
2014
Art100, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
Spring Show and Sale, Feet of Clay Studio, Brookline Massachusetts
Winter, NAVE Gallery, Somerville Massachusetts
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Organizer and video editor of film, Creating with the Fourth State of Matter: Plasma Artists in the Studio, for the Plasma Art Alliance and the Glass Art Society 2023 Conference. The film was presented for the conference at Detroit Film Theatre, Detroit MI.
2021 Organizer and video editor of film, Light on the Horizon, for a virtual exhibition of the Plasma Art Alliance
2016 Co-curator of exhibition, All Fired Up: Contemporary Clay Sculpture, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
GRANTS & AWARDS
2020 SOLO2020 Competition Winner, for a solo exhibition at Bromfield Gallery, Boston MA
2018 Opportunity Fund Grant, Boston Cultural Council, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture
EDUCATION
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston MA
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, TRAINING AND ACTIVITIES
2018-2023 Studio assistant for Wayne Strattman, Strattman Design, Boston MA
2023 Attended the Science of Glassblowing Class, taught by Sally Prasch, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2019-present Committee Member of the Plasma Art Alliance
2013-2023 Artist member of Feet of Clay, a cooperative ceramic studio, Brookline MA
2020 Taught workshop Creating Patterns with Colored Clay at Feet of Clay ceramic studio, Brookline MA
2016-2017 Assistant administrator and curator, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
2017 Attended Colored Clay (Nerikomi) Workshop, taught by Chris Campbell, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta Georgia
2011-2013 Studio assistant, Katherine Houston Porcelain, Boston MA
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Ceramic and glass sculpture “What She Wields” featured in KleiGalerij section of KLEI Keramiek Magazine September-October issue. (Netherlands).
2023 Glass Art Society Journal article about film presentation for the Plasma Art Alliance.
Creating with the Fourth State of Matter: Plasma Artists in the Studio, The Glass Art Society Journal, 118-119
2022 Co-author of peer-reviewed research paper about the Voynich Manuscript.
Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport. Above and Beyond Voynich Canopies: Tents as a Recurring Motif in Beinecke MS 408. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022. University of Malta
CONTACT
cary.rapaport@gmail.com