Amy Rueffert has worked in glass since 1994. She earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1998 and pursued independent study at Ohio State University with Ruth King. She received scholarships for study at Pilchuck Glass School and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She recently received her MFA at Mills College in Oakland where she studied sculpture and ceramics with Ron Nagle. While at Mills she was an Eklind fellow and the recipient of the Jay DeFeo Prize.
Grant awards supported travel to Sweden and Australia to investigate trends in contemporary glass, and she was awarded artist-in-residence positions at Cleveland Institute of Art and San Francisco's Public Glass.
Amy has presented solo exhibitions at Vetri International Glass, Bubba-Mavis Gallery and Bellevue Museum of Art. She exhibits at William Traver Gallery, with a forthcoming exhibition in June 2008. Her work is included in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Tacoma Museum of Glass. She regularly participates in group exhibitions in galleries across the country, most recently in Ongoing Invention at the Robert V. Fullerton Museum at California State Univeristy, San Bernadino. Amy's work has been recognized in New Glass Review (1995,1998, 2006, 2007), and she is a finalist for the Elizabeth R. Rafael Founder’s Prize at the Society of Contemporary Crafts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has been selected for the 2007 International Exhibition of glass in Kanazawa, Japan.
Amy has taught at The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, The Glass Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She ran the glass department at San Jose State University during the 2006-07 school year.
She continues to work with Richard Marquis on Whidbey Island, Washington; Jeff Benroth at the Glass Studio in Berkeley, California; and Simple Syrup Glass Studio in Brockton, Massachusetts.