Recent Exhibitions

  • 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.