Visiting Artist

Josefina Muñoz Torres: Glass Landscape - Sculpting Space and Place

 

Visiting Artist Josefina Muñoz Torres will join us at the Bay Area Glass Institute to teach her inspiring class "Glass Landscape: Sculpting Space and Place" this summer from July 9th through July 13th. This class explores how glass can capture, distort, and reinterpret landscapes—both real and imagined. Using techniques like fusing, slumping, layering, image transfer, and textural surface treatments, students will create pieces inspired by topography and natural formations. The idea is to take an experimental approach, playing with transparency, texture, image and form to translate the essence of place into glass.

This class is a week long intensive and beginner-friendly. Any glass experience will only enhance your experience. 

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The Bay Area Glass Institute will host a Community Night featuring an Artist Talk by Visiting Artist Josefina Muñoz Torres on Friday, July 11th, at 6:00 pm. All are welcome to attend this free cultural event at BAGI

Click Here to RSVP for Community Night

"Josefina Muñoz Torres (she/her) is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Chile whose work examines territory, place, and space through glassworks, sculpture, and installations. Her global career encompasses exhibitions, residencies, research, and public art projects across South America, North America, Europe, and East Africa. Beyond her studio practice, she partners with arts institutions, universities, and cultural centers to create meaningful projects that connect communities through art, education, and cultural exchange.

Josefina has been commissioned to work on diverse public art pieces, including a large-scale permanent installation for The United Nations. With a current focus on isolated territories and Southern-Patagonia islands, Josefina’s methodologies stand in the intersection between ethnography, sociology, craft, community-building, and science.

Muñoz Torres holds a MFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design (2013) and a BFA from the Catholic University in Chile (2006)."

Click here to explore Josefina's work

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