Susanna Conaway
Instagram: @feralstudio.stainedglass
Website: https://www.feralstudio.com/art
Bio: Susanna Conaway is the owner of Feral Studio, a stained glass studio in Berkeley, CA where she builds residential commissions, teaches classes and makes art. She is a Professional Member of the Stained Glass Association of America, and a member of the American Glass Guild. Conaway is an editor and contributing writer for the Glass Quarterly, where she writes about Contemporary Glass artists from around the world.
In 2023 she was accepted as an artist in residence at Greywood Arts in Ireland and was featured in Glass Art Magazine. In 2019 she was the recipient of the SGAA award for artistry in glass, and in 2018 received a James Whitney Scholarship through the American Glass Guild. She received best in Show at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, NY in 2008. In 2007 she was featured on the DIY T.V. Network, Craft Lab where she demonstrated building a stained glass panel.
Statement: Susanna Conaway is an American artist working in glass. Largely inspired by humor, Conaway embraces contradictions, and explores concepts of beauty and power, in pursuit of shifting entrenched perspectives. She plays with transforming the mundane into works of grandeur.
Because stained glass conjures preconceived ideas and is rooted in a long history, Conaway’s work has an element of the unexpected as she distorts tradition to examine contemporary ideas.
