Michael Rogers

Witness

2012

Michael Rogers is currently a full-time professor at Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences in New York, where he has just finished his sixth academic year. He returned to the United States after spending 11 years in Japan, where he was head of Aichi University’s glass department. Rogers’s work is in the permanent collections of the Suntory Museum of Art in Japan, First Contemporary Glass Museum in Spain, Museo del Vidrio in Mexico, National Museum in Lviv, Ukraine, and the Corning Museum of Glass in the United States. Recent exhibitions include The Keeper’s Lament at The Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Glass Curiosities at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, Recollections at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, International Glass at the National Museum in L’viv, Ukraine and Vessels-Collection at Koganezaki Glass Museum, Ugusu Nishiizu-cho, Japan. In 2007, Rogers was a recipient of the Lillian Fairchild Award from the University of Rochester.