Posted on Thursday, September 6, 2012 by Jim Norrena
CCA alumnus Guido Gerliz (MFA 2004) is a visiting instructor in the Glass Program during the fall 2012-spring 2013 term, filling a space left open by Glass chair Clifford Rainey, who is on sabbatical until fall 2013.
Gerliz has taught workshops and intensives at California College of the Arts, Bay Area Glass Institute, and Public Glass. He has international glass-blowing experience working at ICET in Venezuela and with Maestro Pino Signoretto in Murano, Italy.
He has worked as a gaffer for Union Street Glass Inc., Nikolas Weinstein Studios, Cohn-Stone Studios, Pilchuck, and as an independent contract gaffer for special projects. He is the former executive director of Public Glass in San Francisco (2009-11). Gerliz is currently president of Effeto Glassworks in Richmond, California.
Gerliz will share his expertise in many aspects of glass-making, including glass blowing, design, and business. He will also invite varied artists and sculptors who use glass in their work to come to CCA to share their work.
Gerliz received his BFA in glass and ceramics from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1993.