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Fellowship Project
Dr. Shelly Xue spent six months (December 2020 – August 2021) at The Palace Museum in Beijing, China where she studied the 19th century Chinese and Western glass collections and assisted in refining the museum’s database.
Biography
Dr. Shelly Xue is the Adjunct Curator for Asian Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, as well as a professor at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, where she is also the director of the Glass Studio and the Guanghui Glass Art Research Center. She received her Ph. D. in Glass from the University of Wolverhampton (U.K.). She has long been engaged in the historical research and practice in glass art, with a focus on Chinese glass from the Qing dynasty and the East-West cultural exchange. She has published various books on the subject, including Heavenly Reflections: Imperial Glass from the Jiaqing to Xuantong Reigns, Asian Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass, a Chinese version of A History of Glass Forming and Techniques of Kiln-formed Glass. Dr. Xue has been invited to lectures and international conferences in the U.K., U.S.A., the Netherlands, Sweden, Taipei, and Hong Kong. She is also a glass artist. Her work has been collected by European and Chinese art institutions such as the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam.
Recent Development and Achievement
Dr. Shelly Xue is currently conducting research on the Chinese glass collections in Europe and America and is preparing an exhibition on Chinese glass at the Corning Museum of Glass. She is also leading a Palace Museum Research Project — “A Study of 19th Century Chinese Imperial Glass”. She is the co-author of the forthcoming catalogue Heavenly Reflections: Glassware from the Qing Imperial Workshops (Jiaqing to Xuantong Reigns).
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