Jack Wax

Jack Wax is a Professor of Glass and Director of Graduate Studies at The Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond, VA. Wax received his BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His awards include two NEA Individual Artist Fellowships, a Tiffany Foundation Grant, and Illinois State Council of the Arts Individual Artists Grant. Wax’s work can be found in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian Institute, The LA County Museum, Toyama City Japan, and The Markel Collection.

Wax’s work explores the relationship between both two and three-dimensions. During his Arts/Industry residency in the Kohler Co. Foundry, Wax used cast iron to transform his drawings into freestanding forms in space.