Natalie Tyler at Chesterwood

Sculpting amongst the forces of Mother Nature
Natalie Tyler presents the making and installation of the Glass Tornado

The Tornado stands 10 feet tall and is made of ladle cast glass. Natalie Tyler worked in the new studio at the Corning Museum of Glass to create this monumental work. The Tornado is exhibiting in Global Warming/Global Warning at Chesterwood in Stockbridge, MA now through October 31st. More of Tyler's work can be seen at NATALIE TYLER<https://natalietylerart.com/>

BIO
Natalie Tyler is an artist who explores the fragile and forceful elements of nature, through cast-glass sculpture. Tyler’s Mother Nature series includes large-scale sculptures that examine humanity’s complex relationship with our environment. The most recent in this series is Tornado, standing ten-feet, weightless and dynamic, made up of cast glass and steel, is now on exhibition at Chesterwood, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The Tornado was ladle cast at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass.  Her sculpture WildFire exhibited at the United Nations during the International Year of Glass, 2022. She has been a US Embassy-sponsored artist twice—in Dublin, Ireland, and again in Tallinn, Estonia at the Estonia Museum of Applied Art and Design. Tyler has received grants and awards from the New England Foundation for the Arts, Mass MOCA, Mass Cultural Council, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Art Students League of New York, and Cornell University. She received her M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and studied in Bologna, Italy. Originally from California, Tyler now lives and works in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts.

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