Henry Halem

Henry Halem studied at Rhode Island School of Design and George Washington University. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Kent. Employment is recorded with Kent State University. Work by Henry Halem is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Cleveland Museum of Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum and Toledo Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the American Craft Council.

• Name — Henry Halem • Born — 1938 • Birthplace — New York, New York, United States • Known for — Glass art • Training — BFA Rhode Island School of Design MFA George Washington University University of Wisconsin–Madison • Website — https: www.henryhalem.com/

Halem was born in New York City in 1938 and grew up in The Bronx. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1960 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from George Washington University in 1968. Halem also did postgraduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison under Harvey Littleton. He founded the glass program at Kent State University in 1969, teaching at KSU until his retirement in 1998.

Many of Halem's works are inspired by social and political events. Arriving at Kent State in 1969, he was present during the Kent State shootings in 1970, and created several "blinded" glass sculptures that used a combination of plaster face molds and melted white glass. He has also created cast glass works related to the Holocaust, the September 11 attacks, the Iraq War, and other events.

Halem has work in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philabaum Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Corning Museum of Glass. He also has commissioned work displayed in Cleveland at the East 9th–North Coast station rapid transit station and at the Ferro Corporation headquarters, along with a fused glass installation at Ohio University Southern Campus in Ironton, Ohio.