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Fellowship Project
Dr. Shelly Xue spent six months (December 2020 – August 2021) at The Palace Museum in Beijing, China where she studied the 19th century Chinese and Western glass collections and assisted in refining the museum’s database.
Biography
Dr. Shelly Xue is the Adjunct Curator for Asian Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, and Associate Professor at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. She received her Ph. D. in Glass from the University of Wolverhampton (U.K.). She has long been engaged in the historical research and practice of glass art, with a focus on Chinese art from the Qing dynasty and the East-West cultural exchange. She has published various books on the subject, including Qing dynasty Chinese Glass, a Chinese version of A History of Glass Forming and Techniques of Kiln-formed Glass. Dr. Xue has been invited to lectures and international conferences in the U.K., U.S.A., the Netherlands, Sweden, Taipei and Hong Kong. She is also a glass artist. Her work has been collected by European and Chinese art institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Recent Development and Achievement
Dr. Shelly Xue is currently conducting research on the Chinese glass collections of the Qing dynasty in Europe and America and is preparing an exhibition on Chinese glass at the Corning Museum of Glass. She is the author of the forthcoming book Asian Glass – Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass.
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