Nadine Saylor, currently Assistant Professor of Glass at University of Nebraska Kearney, is originally from Pennsylvania where she studied photography at the local Community College in Harrisburg. She continued her studies in Photography at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she found glass. The hot liquid lava had her entranced so she continued to find ways to work with this seductive material for a while after she graduated. She continued working with glass in summer workshops until she found a position in California working with an artist couple on their craft.  In 2005, she went to Alfred University in upstate New York to get her MFA.

 Since then, she has taught at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Harrisburg Area Community College in Pennsylvania, and at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. In addition to teaching at the collegiate level, she has taught many workshops internationally including “Harbourfront Centre” in Toronto, “The Studio” at the Corning Museum of Glass and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.
In her series entitled “Domestic Objects” her antique and ordinary objects become a recollection of the past, bringing to attention how much we have changed as human beings and how much technology has transformed our lives. She uses vintage ceramic decals as imagery on her glass in addition to sandblasting designs of her own creation.

Nadine has exhibited in many exhibitions including the Cafesjian Art Trust, in Shoreview, MN, Toyama’s International Glass Exhibition 2024 and has shown at SOFA Chicago. Her work was most recently purchased  by the Federal Reserve Board to be on display in one of the Buildings in Washington, DC.