Denise Stillwaggon Leone is a versatile and prolific artist who constructs architectural commissions, designs religious art glass, renovates historic sites and teaches at the Corning Museum of Glass. 1) Constructing architectural commissions in the U.S.: In 2002, Denise completed a four story-high architectural glass series for the new Business School at the University of Connecticut. In 1992, she won a Percent for the Arts competition to design and build four sliding walls of stained and sandblasted glass for UCONN’s Dempsey Hospital. She has won two Percent for the Arts competitions in Connecticut alone. For the New York State Bar Association in Albany in 1990, she created a painted glass landscape for an interior wall. Her architectural work has not only been restricted to the medium of glass. In 1995, she designed a series of terracotta friezes for the exterior of St. Bonaventure University's new Performing Arts Center as well as a hanging glass sculpture for its lobby. 2) Teaching workshops at the Corning Museum of Glass: At Corning Museum of Glass workshops, Denise shares her innovative techniques in photo-sandblasting imagery on glass with selected groups of international artists. "I have had the opportunity - and the privilege - of developing methods of photo-sandblasting in a series of panels, thirty two in all, for the Keck Center at Colgate University (1997). The imagery, most of which derives from classical Greek statuary, gives an almost holographic illusion of depth and has lots of possibilities yet to be explored." In addition, Denise teaches classes in both innovative and traditional techniques of painting on glass. 3) Forming religious artwork and renovating historical sites: Denise has designed glass panels for several churches and synagogues in and around Hamilton, NY, including St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, the "Creation" window for St. Thomas' Church, and in 1984 a memorial window for the Baptist Church. Early in her career she restored the ornate stained glass skylights in Louis Sullivan's Prudential Building in Buffalo, NY, a design to which Frank Lloyd Wright originally contributed. 4) Creating unique autonomous pieces in her glass studio located in Earlville, NY: Initially a printmaking major and former student of the Boston Museum School and Tufts University, her expression has always involved working with glass, in myriad ways: "Finding time to make autonomous pieces while continuing to construct art glass commissions has been a balancing act for quite a while now." Exhibiting widely in the U.S., Canada, England and Japan, she has shown her sculptural lamps in the Heller Gallery, NYC as well as in Montreal and in California at the DowneyMuseum of Art. 5) Developing new glass techniques: "Vision always demands exploration. Lately more than ever, I feel the need to master new techniques and to test means of working with the medium. At the moment I am privileged to be working with the Higuchis at the Corning Museum. They have revived the tradition of pate de verre to great effect.” <<Denise's Biography 2>> "
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