Alex Gabriel Bernstein literaly grew up in a family of glass artists so it is no surprise that he decided to pursue the art of glass as his career. He is head of the glass department at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts. He has also taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Rochester Institute of Technology, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass and Penland School of Crafts. Alex holds an M.F.A. in glass sculpture from the School for American Crafts at RIT.

EDUCATION

2001: Masters of Fine Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, The School for American Crafts, Rochester, NY.

1999: Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.

Concentration in glass blowing with David Levi.

1998: Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.

Concentration in glass blowing with Dimitri Mechealidis.

1994: BA, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, NY.

Glassmuseum Frauenau. Frauenau, Germany.

Burchfeild-Penny Arts Center, Museum of Western New York Art, Buffalo, NY.

Wallace Memorial Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

The Dean of Liberal Arts Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

Mellon Financial Corporation, Harrisburg, VA.

Wachovia financial Group, Greenville, SC.

Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highland , NC.