About the Artist

James Labold is an artist, educator, and fabricator working primarily with glass, living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 

James was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia, where he spent childhood summers visiting museums with his grandmother, historical sites, New Jersey boardwalks, and a theme park based on candy bars. These were all critical to his development as an artist.

He received his BFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art and after briefly relocating to Arizona, James called Philadelphia home for the better part of a decade.  He received his MFA in Glass at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, alma mater of David Letterman, birthplace of Garfield the Cat, and site of filming for 30 seasons of "The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross." After 3 years in the Midwest, he returned once again to Philadelphia, and has continued to be priced out of up and coming neighborhoods ever since.

His work has been included in multiple editions of the Corning Museum of Glass's annual "exhibition in print"  New Glass Review (NGR 31, 36, 39, and 43). James has been Artist in Residence at Starworks Center for Creative Enterprises in Star, NC. He has led workshops at universities and public glass studios throughout the U.S. as well as the International Summer Academy Bild-Werk Frauenau, Germany. He was selected for the Glass Art Society's 2016 Saxe Emerging Artist Award and lectured at their 2016 conference in Corning, NY.

Labold's most recent work explores merging digital technologies such as 3D scanning and 3D printing with traditional analog techniques such as lost wax casting.