Roberta Segal

Roberta Segal lives and works in Warren, Rhode Island. 

The owner of a successful creative agency, her background is in graphic design and painting.  Several years ago, a close friend introduced her to the world of kiln-formed glass.  Always fascinated with the properties of glass, the medium became her passion.

In 2005 she was invited to apply to the Pilchuck Glass School founded by Dale Chihuly.  There she studied with Jeremy LePisto and Mel George.  She has also taken workshops with noted glass artists Avery Anderson and Brock Craig.  She learned traditional glass painting techniques from Chris Foster, which she incorporates in her kiln-formed work.

For over two decades she was president of her own creative firm, Roberta Segal and Associates. She and her staff of seven received ten national awards from special interest organizations for their work in graphic design and marketing.

 

A graduate of Simmons College and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, she worked at Art News Magazine in New York City early in her career.  Among her many accomplishments, she developed a curriculum for teaching art appreciation to inner city youngsters; was a set designer for a theatre group; coordinated a class in Latin American Art; and as an alumni of Leadership Rhode Island, established their work space/gallery with ongoing exhibits of local artists. 

She has exhibited in many venues in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, including Gallery LRI, the Charlestown Gallery, the Atrium Gallery in the Department of Administration, and is currently showing in Gallery Z and NOA Gallery.

Her commissioned work is found in private collections in Provence, France; and in the United States in California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North and South Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

In March 2008, she was selected as an highlighted artist on bestofartists.com. 

In April 2009 she was one of ten glass artist in New England to be selected for the juried show “Looking At Glass” held at the Bristol Art Museum.

In the Fall of 2009 she will be co-leading a course on “Visual Conversations and Cultural Explorations” at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.

She is a member of the International Guild of Glass Artists.  Her website is http://www.robertasegal.com