Michael Janis
Michael Janis
Michael Janis

Michael Janis

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BiographyAfter a 20-year career as an architect in the United States and Australia, Michael Janis returned to the US with a focus on working with glass. In 2005, he became the Co-Director of the Washington Glass School and Studio in Washington, DC. He teaches there and has also taught workshops on his glass techniques around the world. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012, Janis went to England's University of Sunderland and taught at the UK's National Glass Centre, where he became an Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for International Research in Glass.

Janis has received numerous awards for his artwork including the Florida Art Glass Alliance’s Emerging Artist Award in 2009, the Bay Area Glass Institute’s 2010 Saxe Fellowship, and he was named a “Rising Star” at Wheaton Arts 2011. His artwork was twice featured in Corning Museum of Glass’ “New Glass Review,” a review of the year’s top 100 glass works. Massachusetts’ Fuller Craft Museum mounted a solo show of Janis’ glass panels and sculpture in 2011, and they have recently acquired one of his works for its permanent collection. Janis’ artwork is also in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and the US Department of State collection at the US Bucharest Embassy. The James Renwick Alliance named him Distinguished Glass Artist for 2014. In 2016, the District of Columbia awarded him the 31st Annual Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in the Arts.
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