Chad Holliday

Chad Holliday received a BFA from Emporia State University, Kansas and an MFA in glass sculpture and metal fabrication/jewelry design from the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. After completing his graduate work, Chad accepted an artist in residence at the Grand Crystal Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. Afterwards, Holliday was the Lead Hot Shop Technician and part of the original construction for studio at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma.  

Holliday has his studio practice in Saint Paul, MN. In 2019, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Glass at Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska. From 2017-2019, Holliday was the Director of Studio Operations at Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Art. Prior to this appointment, Chad had the tenure rank of Associate Professor and recognized with an endowed professorship at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas from 2008-2017.. 

Holliday received a Fulbright Award for the academic year 2007-2008 at The Secondary School of Glass Making – Kamenicky Senov, working with his longtime mentor and colleague Frantisek Janak to establish links between traditional methods of pedagogy with a contemporary approach.  

Chad’s artwork has been published in the New Glass Review and featured as an emerging artist of the year in “American Style” magazine. Holliday has been nominated fort the Art, Craft Design Award for the numerous years. He has had aquisition by multiple museums including The Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington and The Museum of Applied Arts, Prague, Czechia.