Sibylle Peretti
Sibylle Peretti was born in 1964 in Mulheim-Ruhr, Germany. She was trained as a glass designer at the School for Glass Making in Zweisel, Germany. She studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne, where she received her M.F.A. She is internationally known and has had many solo exhibitions as well as museum shows worldwide. In 1997, she received the Raphael Founders Prize. Together with Stephen Paul Day, she was awarded a Wharhol Grant for an artist residency at Penland. She has taught at many schools in Europe and the USA. Her work can be seen at the Corning Museum, the American Glass Museum, and many museums in Europe. Since 1992 she lives and works in New Orleans, and Cologne, Germany.
Germany-born and New Orleans-based artist Sibylle Peretti has exhibited and participated in artists’ residencies internationally. Along with fellow glass artist and husband, Stephen Paul Day, Peretti also makes art under the moniker Club S&S. Peretti was a Creative Glass fellow in 1992, 1997, and 2004.
50th Anniversary Visiting Artists
Peretti’s work expresses innocence, vulnerability, the essence of memories, and human nature. Of the pieces displayed here, Snow Child is a hyper-realistic life-sized milk glass sculpture of a young child that appears to lie lifeless with milk glass birds around the child. Dorothea’s Leg is a glass leg that gradates from blue to white and has an opening down the Leg’s center. Glass Notes are mixed media napkins with glass imagery on each napkin.
Peretti’s work expresses innocence, vulnerability, the essence of memories, and human nature. Of the pieces displayed here, Snow Child is a hyper-realistic life-sized milk glass sculpture of a young child that appears to lie lifeless with milk glass birds around the child. Dorothea’s Leg is a glass leg that gradates from blue to white and has an opening down the Leg’s center. Glass Notes are mixed media napkins with glass imagery on each napkin.
