Michael Taylor - Biography

 

Michael Estes Taylor's work is represented in international collections, notably among them the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Corning Museum of Glass, Notojima Museum of Glass, Japan, Museum fur Kunslhaniwerk, Germany, National Museum of Glass, Holland, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia and many others.
Taylor has been honored with awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright-Hayes Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Luzo-American Foundation, and was winner of the Grand Prize at the Kanazawa International Glass Exhibition, Japan, He has served in an advisory capacity to the Institute of International Education, Corning Museum of Glass, Glass Art Society, Illinois Council for the Arts, New York Foundation on the Arts, Vitro Corporativo S.A.De C. V., Mexico and most recently the Assosiacao Portugesa do Vidro, Lisbon, Portugal. A professor and head of the Glass Department in the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Imaging Arts and Science, New York, Taylor has lectured, worked and exhibited in the United States and internationally in many public and private venues.