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Sam Herman
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<h2 id="early-life">Early life</h2> <p>Samuel J. Herman was born in Mexico City in 1936. His father died when he was an infant and he and his mother moved to the United States when he was six years old. From 1955 to 1959 Herman served in the U.S. Navy.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> He became a US citizen in 1947.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="education">Education</h2> <p>Herman's art education was first taken at <a href="/facts/Western_Washington_University/ntpdWqXj">Western Washington University</a> in Bellingham, Washington where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he studied under Professor <a href="/facts/Harvey_Littleton/NWS1KpxA">Harvey Littleton</a> and the sculptor Leo Steppart . He was awarded the MFA from that institution in 1965. Upon receipt of a scholarship, Herman afterward traveled to Great Britain for study with Helen Turner at the <a href="/facts/Edinburgh_College_of_Art/g4Ggvxoj">Edinburgh College of Art</a> from 1965 to 1966. After this he became a Research Fellow at the <a href="/facts/Royal_College_of_Art/kBV2vjw6">Royal College of Art</a> (RCA) in London from 1966 to 1967,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> when he was appointed the head of the Glass Department.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="founder">Founder</h2> <p>In 1969 Herman established a workshop, The Glasshouse, in London. It was the first glass studio of its kind in Great Britain allowing graduate students to further develop their skills and business acumen.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> In 1974 he traveled to Australia, where, in cooperation with the South Australian Craft Authority, he set up the glass area at Jam Factory Workshops, Inc. in <a href="/facts/Adelaide/G3eYAnxs">Adelaide</a>. It was Australia's first hot glass studio.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> In 1979 Herman returned to England and set up his own glass studio in London, where he worked until 1990.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="educator">Educator</h2> <p>Herman headed the Glass Department at the Royal College of Art (RCA) from late 1967 to 1974. He had his first major UK exhibition in 1967 curated by Henry Rothschild at <a href="/facts/Primavera_Gallery/4Abh9orE">Primavera</a>. In 1971 he had an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1974, he had his first major exhibition in Germany, curated by <a href="/facts/Wolfgang_Kermer/CE3hlHCn">Wolfgang Kermer</a> in Stuttgart.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> His former students include firstly the previous Head of Department, <a href="/facts/Michael_Harris_(glassworker)/nzwvjhV8">Michael Harris</a> - who left the position which Sam took over to form <a href="/facts/Mdina_Glass/KCcUT9uV">Mdina Glass</a> in Malta - Peter Aldridge Clifford Rainey, Jane Bruce, Pauline Solven, Annette Meech, Steven Newell and Jiri Suhajek.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> Herman left the RCA when he was invited by the South Australian government to found the glass studio at Jam Factory Workshops. He spent the next five years in Australia, creating glass sculpture, exhibiting and conducting workshops. When he returned to London in 1979, he took a position as head of the glass area at the Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education (now <a href="/facts/Buckinghamshire_New_University/fScaKxVR">Buckinghamshire New University</a>), which later named him head of the Ceramics and Glass Department at the school. His tenure ended in 1990, when he took a consulting position with the Cristalleries Val Saint Lambert in Belgium. In addition to his teaching positions in England, Herman taught workshops in the United States at <a href="/facts/Haystack_Mountain_School_of_Crafts/wA5udtoa">Haystack Mountain School of Crafts</a> (1970), the <a href="/facts/University_of_California_at_Berkeley/MXVEjklr">University of California at Berkeley</a> (1971) and <a href="/facts/California_College_of_Arts_and_Crafts/pcCo37BW">California College of Arts and Crafts</a> (1972–73).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="collections">Collections</h2> <p>Herman's work has been collected by the <a href="/facts/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum/vUMjeHBn">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>, London; <a href="/facts/Art_Gallery_of_South_Australia/rmJb40K8">Art Gallery of South Australia</a> in Adelaide; the <a href="/facts/National_Gallery_of_Victoria/LIH4kFdg">National Gallery of Victoria</a>, in Melbourne; the <a href="/facts/Art_Gallery_of_Western_Australia/afeFHeDh">Art Gallery of Western Australia</a> in Perth; Viennese Glass Museum in Vienna, Austria; <a href="/facts/Frauenau_Glass_Museum/oIqRFkqM">Frauenau Glass Museum</a> (Donation <a href="/facts/Wolfgang_Kermer/CE3hlHCn">Wolfgang Kermer</a>),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> Germany; the Düsseldorf Art Museum in Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, Germany; the <a href="/facts/Royal_Scottish_Museum/mg59mqPD">Royal Scottish Museum</a> in Edinburgh; <a href="/facts/The_Art_Institute_of_Chicago/wR8T2yev">The Art Institute of Chicago</a>; <a href="/facts/The_Corning_Museum_of_Glass/WDeAeTBU">The Corning Museum of Glass</a> in Corning, New York, the <a href="/facts/Chazen_Museum_of_Art/AdWrG02L">Chazen Museum of Art</a> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and the <a href="/facts/National_Museum_of_American_History/cBQI5aWu">National Museum of American History</a>, <a href="/facts/Smithsonian_Institution/pqC74ta9">Smithsonian Institution</a>, Washington, DC, and <a href="/facts/The_Higgins_Art_Gallery_%26_Museum,_Bedford/WcLq6IUe">The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum, Bedford</a>, UK.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> Sam Herman featured in the exhibition "Glass, Light, Paint & Clay: Objects from the Graham Cooley Collection" at the <a href="/facts/Peterborough_Museum_and_Art_Gallery/eUYlpQlU">Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery</a> from 28 October to 14 December 2017. The catalogue (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-78808-185-6) features an interview with Sam (conducted by Graham Cooley at the Swindon Museum and art gallery on 27 October 2016) <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> describing his life and work. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Cambridge Glass Fair website: "Sam Herman: an exhibition and much more", [1] Accessed 4/9/2010 <a href="http://cambridgeglassfair.com/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2008-02-sam-herman.htm" target="_blank">http://cambridgeglassfair.com/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2008-02-sam-herman.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Sam Herman website <a href="http://www.samueljherman.com" target="_blank">http://www.samueljherman.com</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Sam Herman obituary". The Guardian. 9 February 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/09/sam-herman-obituary" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/09/sam-herman-obituary</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Grover, Ray, "Contemporary Art Glass", Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, NY 1975 p. 106 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Art Knowledge News website: "ZeST Gallery to Exhibit Sam Herman", Friday, April 6, 2007, [2] Accessed 4/9/2010 <a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Sam_Herman.html" target="_blank">http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Sam_Herman.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Grover, 1975, p. 106 <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Sam Herman website, "Cv". Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2010. Accessed 4/9/2010 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080515080928/http://www.samhermanstudio.co.uk/CV/cv.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20080515080928/http://www.samhermanstudio.co.uk/CV/cv.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Art Knowledge News website: [3] Accessed 4/9/2010 <a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Sam_Herman.html" target="_blank">http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Sam_Herman.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Art Knowledge News website: [4] Accessed 4/9/2010 <a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Sam_Herman.html" target="_blank">http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Sam_Herman.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Sam Herman website, "Cv". Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2010. Accessed 4/9/10 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080515080928/http://www.samhermanstudio.co.uk/CV/cv.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20080515080928/http://www.samhermanstudio.co.uk/CV/cv.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Wolfgang Kermer: Sam Herman. Galerie Günther Galetzki, Stuttgart 1974 <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Kermer" target="_blank">/wiki/Wolfgang_Kermer</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Cambridge Glass Fair website [5] Accessed 4/9/2010 <a href="http://cambridgeglassfair.com/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2008-02-sam-herman.htm" target="_blank">http://cambridgeglassfair.com/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2008-02-sam-herman.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Sam Herman website <a href="http://www.samueljherman.com" target="_blank">http://www.samueljherman.com</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Alfons Hannes: Die Sammlung Wolfgang Kermer, Glasmuseum Frauenau: Glas des 20. Jahrhunderts; 50er bis 70er Jahre. Schnell & Steiner, München, Zürich 1989 (Bayerische Museen, Band 9) ISBN 3-7954-0753-2, pp. 65–67, cover image: works by Erwin Eisch and Sam Herman (the catalog lists 9 objects, the vase dated 1972, cat.no.161, with an engraved dedication: Best wishes Dr. Kermer Samuel J. Herman) <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Waldrich, Joachim, “Who’s Who in Contemporary Glass Art: A Comprehensive Guide to Glass Artists – Craftsmen – Designers”, Joachim Waldrich Verlag, Munich, Germany 1993 p. 199 <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>http://friendsofsmag.org/events/sam-herman-in-conversation-with-graham-cooley/ Sam Herman in conversation with Graham Cooley <a href="http://friendsofsmag.org/events/sam-herman-in-conversation-with-graham-cooley/" target="_blank">http://friendsofsmag.org/events/sam-herman-in-conversation-with-graham-cooley/</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>