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Charlie Manion is a Midwestern glass and sound artist who works collaboratively to connect aesthetic experiences to material processes. He has experience as a scientific glassblower, touring musician, and is the scenic designer for CAROL Performance Group, an experimental theater company in New York.
His artwork has been exhibited at Westbeth Gallery, the Design Museum of Chicago, the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, and in residence at Millennium Park’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, in collaboration with the Experimental Sound Studio and Antennae Journal.
He was the public glass studio manager at Firebird Community Arts, a trauma-recovery nonprofit for Chicagoans Injured by gun violence, before pursuing an MFA at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He now writes about glass as a Lois F. McNeil Fellow in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
