Born in 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beth Lipman is an artist known for her sculptural installations in clear glass. Lipman was exposed to art at a young age through her mother’s interest in painting and folk art, and she had her first experience blowing glass at a summer craft program when she was 16. Lipman studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and Pilchuck Glass School before receiving her BFA in glass and fiber from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia (1994). After finishing her studies, Lipman became involved at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, first as a teaching assistant and ultimately as the director of education. Around this time, she was also invited to participate in an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Artists were prompted to select a work of art on view at the museum and create a piece of their own in response. Lipman chose Still Life with Fruit by Severin Roesen, recreating the objects depicted in the painting in clear, sculpted glass. Lipman has maintained her interest this subject matter for nearly two decades, often playfully citing her love of food. Like the original paintings though, Lipman’s frozen still life installations also evoke mortality and humans grappling with that inevitability. Though she now works full time as an artist in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, Lipman also has years of experience as an arts administrator. In addition to her educational work at UrbanGlass, she served as head of glass at the Worcester Center for Crafts, director of educator and artist services at Wheaton Village, and coordinator of the Arts/Industry artist-in-residency program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Lipman has exhibited widely and completed numerous residencies. Her work is represented within the permanent collections of institutions including the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. She was honored with a 2013 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and was featured in the 2013 “Messages” episode of Craft in America on PBS. Beth Lipman was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2018.