Description
Crista Van Slyck Matteson’s sculptures speak of her love for wild spaces and deep connection to the PNW. She received a BFA in Textiles from the California College of Art in San Francisco and began her varied art career in Costume Design.
Since then, her pursuit of fine art education has been relentless. Having won several merit scholarships, Van Slyck Matteson studied glass, metals, and printing at Pratt Fine Art Center and recently, in 2023 she received the Molyneaux Award from Pratt to study Flameworking.
With a merit scholarship in 2015, Van Slyck Matteson studied at the Gage Academy of Fine Art in their Figure Sculpting Atelier program. In 2018 and 2019 she studied at Pilchuck Glass School. Corning Museum’s, New Glass Review, included her work in their 2024 issue. Feature articles about the artist have been published in Glass Art Magazine, Flow Magazine, and Artists on Couches.
In 2024 she was awarded the Skills Artistry Award at the Pratt Auction. She has been recognized with a Collector’s Choice Award at Habatat Gallery’s International Exhibit and Juror’s Choice Awards at Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, the Schack Art Center, Pratt’s Auction, and the Tacoma College Gallery. She was awarded a Mayor’s Purchase award by the city of Kent.
In 2025 she will teach at Corning Museum of Glass in New York. In 2024 she taught at Pilchuck Glass School and Pratt Fine Art Center. She has also worked as an assistant instructor at Corning, Pilchuck, and Pratt. She had the honor of being an Exhibition Judge for the Art Glass Association of Southern California’s 43rd Annual Exhibition in 2024.
Van Slyck Matteson will have a Solo Exhibition at the Kirkland Art Center in 2025. She exhibits her work in museums and galleries across the US. Van Slyck Matteson currently works in her solar-powered studio in Seattle, WA.
