2023 “Mass Glass” The Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts
2022 “Light up the World” The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts.
2019 New England New Glass Curated by Schantz Gallery, Worcester Center for the Crafts Worcester, Massachusetts
2019 A Cut Above Tribute to Ed Poore, Sandwich Glass Museum Sandwich, Massachusetts
2019 Portrait commission of Pearl Fryar “Horticultural Hero’s” exhibition Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, Massachusetts
2018 Selected for Roddy Exhibition Concord Art Association, Concord Massachusetts
2016 Special Exhibition The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich Massachusetts
2015 “Cutting Edge” The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich Massachusetts
2013 “Transitional Glass: The Art of Debbie Tarsitano” solo retrospective exhibition, The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts
2013 “Bijoux!” contemporary art jewelry exhibition, The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida
2012 “Sandwich Redux”, The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts
2012 Paperweights of Flint Collection, The Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan
2010 “The Cast Glass of Debbie Tarsitano”, The John Nelson Bergstrom Museum of Art, Neenah, Wisconsin
2009 “Portraits in Glass – The Art of Debbie Tarsitano” solo retrospective exhibition, Babbidge Library, The University of Connecticut at Storrs, Storrs, Connecticut
2007 “Transitional Glass” solo retrospective exhibition, The Evansville Museum of Art History and Science, Evansville, Indiana
2007 “Contemporary Paperweights”, The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts
2006-07 “Worlds Within”, a special exhibition, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Teaching:
2005-2020 Instructor: The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
2014 “Encasing Flamework” Debbie Tarsitano live streaming video filmed at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass
2009-2014 Online tutorials and videos on YouTube having over 50,000 hits
2010 Visiting artist: MIT Glass Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Two demonstrations and installation of a permanent flameworking station.
2004 Presenter: Glass Art Society Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
Public Collections:
Tower Hill Botanic Garden Boylston, Massachusetts
The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Forsyth Gallery of Art, Texas A&M, College Station, Texas
The Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
The John Nelson Bergstrom Art Center Gallery, Neenah, Wisconsin
Flint Institute of Glass, Flint, Michigan
The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Wheaton Arts, Museum of American Glass, Millville, New Jersey
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Recent Exhibitions, Solo and Group:
Worcester Center for the Crafts, New Glass New England sponsored by the Schantz gallery.
Solo Exhibition Transitional Glass the Art of Debbie T The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts
Worcester Center for the Crafts New Glass New England, Worcester Ma.
Solo Exhibition The University of Connecticut Babbidge Library, Storrs, Connecticut
Solo Exhibition The Evansville Museum of Art History and Science, Evansville Illinoise
Habitat Gallery Michigan “Fragile Nature”
Solo Exhibition The Staedtisches Museum, Braunschweig, Germany
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, California
The Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona
The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Massachusetts
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
The Two Collection, WGBH, Boston, Massachusetts
New England Spring Flower Show, Boston, Massachusetts
Recent Publications:
2019 Bard College on line publication, Tarsitano Studio History
2019 L. H. Selman The art of Debbie Tarsitano
2019 Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Newsletter “The Sum of My Experience”
2014 Ben Draback Transitional Glass the Art of Debbie Tarsitano
2013 Catalog “Transitional Glass:The Art of Debbie Tarsitano” The Sandwich Glass Museum
2012 The Flow magazine featured tutorial
2010 Glass Art magazine feature Debbie Tarsitano
2010 The Flow magazine feature
2000-2010 Editorial writer and special consultant, Glass Art magazine. Debbie Tarsitano has authored over ten feature articles.
2006 The Flow magazine feature article, “Debbie Tarsitano” by Milon Townsend
2005 Inclusion in “Women Working in Glass” by Lucartha Kohler, Shiffer Publishers
2005 The Glass Art Society Journal, “Fire Fly”, creating flamework encasements.
