Vandermark Merritt Glass StudiosJERRY VANDERMARK
1943 Began apprenticeship with Carl Erickson (Erickson Art Glass) Bremen, Ohio
1959 Left Erickson to direct Colonial Glasshouse at Jamestown, Virginia for the
National Park Service
1972 Designed facilities and trained glassblowers for the Vandermark Glasshouse
of Liberty Village, Flemington, New Jersey
1982 Retired from Jamestown Glasshouse
VANDERMARK-MERRITT GLASS STUDIOS
1972 Commenced operations, specializing in Colonial Reproduction Glassware
1974-75 Began to develop and market contemporary and traditional Art Glass
1976 Vandermark work chosen for final show at the Corning Glass Art Society
Seminar
1977 Featured artists at the American Paperweight Collectors Association meeting at
Wheaton Village, Millville, New Jersey
1979 Began experimentation with Cameo Glass
1980 Vandermark-Merritt Glass Studios "Applied Spider" Cameo Vase was one of
nine pieces featured in Art Craft Magazines review of the National Invitational
at Habitat Galleries, Michigan
1981 Hosted the New York Paperweight Collectors Association Annual Meeting
1982 Featured in the Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association
1982 Vandermark-Merritt Glass Studios Cameo Glass featured in Designs Recycled
"Medley 82"
1982 One of two contemporary studios featured in the Coming Museum of Glass haute qualité show and
seminar "2000 Years of Cameo Masterpieces"
1983-84 Featured in the Art Glass Society Journal
1984 "Insculpture Diatreta: Paperweights introduced at Wheaton Museum of
American Glass "Paperweights of Today" exhibit
1984 Victorians Young-Sharin Gallerys "Engraved Glass" exhibit, California
1984 Featured in the Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association
1985 Featured in Wheaton Museum of American Glass Exhibit "Three Generations In
Glass: Erickson, Vandermark, Merritt"
1985 Douglas Merritt gave lecture at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Wisconsin,
"Breakthrough in Glass: A New Technique in the Art of Cameo Carving"
1985 Vandermark-Merritt Cameo Glass featured in "Collectors Editions: magazine
1986 Douglas Merritt gave lecture on "Insculpture Diatreta" for the Michigan Chapter
Paperweight Collectors Association in conjunction with Michigan Glass Month
1986 Vandermark-Merrill Diatreta featured in "The Glass Club Bulletin" of the
National Early American Glass Club
1986 Featured in the Wheaton Museum of American Glass Exhibit "Flowers from
Flame: American Lampwork Paperweights"
1986 Commissioned to create hand-cut reproduction globes for the chandelier in the
Renaissance Revival Room of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York City
1986 Featured in "New Glass Review 7" from the Coming Museum of Glass
1987 Douglas Merritt gave lecture to Westchester, New York Glass Club
1987 Featured in lecture "Reproductions in America Glass" delivered by Jane
Spillman, Curator of American Glass at the Coming Museum in Coming, New
York
1987 Featured in Signature Fine Arts exhibition "Focus Paperweights"
1982-89 Douglas Merritt elected to the Board of Directors of the Creative Glass Center
of America
1989 VMGS commissioned to make a special Limited Edition perfume bottle for
Jaclyn Smiths "California" fragrance
1990 VMGS featured in "Paperweights & Perfumes 90" Exhibit at Del Mano
Galleries, California
1990 James McClure gave a lecture to the Pennsylvania Carnival Glass Collectors Club
1990-91 VMGS cornrnissioned to make the first Limited Edition Convention Commemorative
Perfume Bottle for the Perfume & Scent Bottle Collectors Club
1990-91 VMGS featured in the "Special Delivery - Craft Americana" exhibit at the
Renwick Museum Shop of the Smithsonian Institution
1992-93 Invitational Perfume Bottle Show, Signature Gallery
1994 Douglas Merritt gave lecture to the Washington, D.C. Paperweight Collectors
1995 Washington, D.C. Paperweight Collectors Association visits Vandermark-
Merritt Glass Studio
1996 Selected for the NJ State Museum Show
1996 Participants in Spring Show at The American Craft Museum.
1999 Listed in Whos Who in America.
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