| Ann Morhauser | |
| Birth Place: | Camden, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | California College of the Arts |
Ann Morhauser (also known as Annie Morhauser, born 1957) is an American glass artist based in California. She is the founder of Annieglass, a glassware, tableware and glass sculpture company.[1] [2] Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[3] [4] In 2022, she was recognized as the Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year.
Morhauser was born in Camden, New Jersey.[3] Raised in Collingswood, New Jersey, She attended Paul VI High School.[5] She studied glassmaking and graduated from California College of the Arts in 1979.[6]
After graduation, Morhauser started her career making and selling glass plates at craft fairs and museum shops. Later, she worked in a glass gallery in California.[7]
Morhauser started Annieglass, a glassware, tableware and glass sculpture company in 1983 in Santa Cruz, California, and then moved her headquarters to Watsonville in 1996.[6] She hand-crafts her pieces[8] and utilizes a technique called slumped glass to mold the pieces. She applies gold, color, or platinum to glass and fires it in a ceramic kiln over a ceramic mold. The heat and gravity make the precious metals or color fuse to the glass as well as making the glass slump into the mold.[4] She has received a patent and FDA approval for this technique. She also has a technique to fuse recycled glass together and shape it with a waterjet, for which she has applied for a patent.[7] [9] [10]
Some of her pieces have also displayed at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York[11] [12]
Morhauser’s artworks are a part of the Luce Foundation Collection of American Craft, an exhibit assembled for the study of American folk artists and contemporary craft, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[7]
In 2022, Morhauser was recognized as the Artist of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Arts Commission.[13]