Richard
Jolley was born in Kansas in 1952, earned his
BFA from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt
University in Nashville in 1974 and did graduate
studies at Penland the same year. His work is
included in the collections of museums in the
U.S. and abroad, including the Museum of Art and
Design, NY; Corning Museum, NY; Los Angeles County
Museum of Modern Art, CA; Renwick Gallery of the
National Museum of American Art, D.C.; International
Glasmuseum, Denmark; and the Kunstmuseum, Germany.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions over the
past 25 years, including his most recent exhibition
“Richard Jolley: Sculptor of Glass”
which opened at the Knoxville Museum of Art in
2002 and traveled through 2007.
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