Lyubov Savelyeva (also spelt Savelieva; born 1940) is a Russian glass artist. Her work is part of the collection of the

Corning Museum of Glass The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning, New York in the United States, dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass. It was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works and currently has a collection of more than 50,000 glass obj ...

, the Museum of Contemporary Glass in Ukraine, Museum of Contemporary Glass in Ebeltoft. Denmark

Biography

Savelyeva was born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, Russia and graduated from Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (Stroganovskoe) in 1966. In 1969 she began teaching ceramics and glass at university level. In 1988 she became a member of the International Association of Art Glass and in 1990 she received an "artist of the year" award in the USA. She was one of only three glass artists elected to the Soviet Academy of Fine Arts.

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