People

At Glass Axis everyone matters. Whether on the bench or behind the scenes, critical and creative minds merge diverse thought and skill to create our vibrant glass art center.

1) Staff
Combining adminstrative, management, communication, and technical support to keep Glass Axis fused together.

Eva Ball
Executive Director

Eva Ball has worked in the Columbus arts community for 10 years. She has curated numerous exhibitions including, "Delusion of Eating", "Joy Divisions", "Time Machine", and "20/20: Twenty Artists Twenty TVs". She has worked with a variety of local arts organizations (BLD, Skylab, Shelf Gallery, Ohio Art League, MADLAB, The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, and now Glass Axis) in a plethora of capacities, including communications, accessibility, development, operations, and exhibition design, not to mention everything in between from building walls to program planning. She was named the 2012 Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) Emerging Arts Leader.

In 2007, Eva graduated from The Ohio State University, with a BFA, summa cum laude and honors distinction in sculpture. Her visual, music, and writing work has been exhibited nationally and in Europe and been discussed in several Columbus publications including The Columbus Dispatch, The Other Paper, Columbus Alive, 614 Magazine, and Donewaiting; her exhibit "Delusion of Eating" was listed as one of the top 10 art events of 2010 (Columbus Alive), alongside "Hard Targets" at the Wexner Center and "R. Crumb" at the Columbus Museum of Art. She has received numerous awards including the GCAC Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grant, a nomination for the Ohio Governor’s Award, the 13th Annual Fergus-Gilmore Scholarship, and two fellowships to study in Paris and Bucharest. Besides art-making, she has a special interest in post-structuralist theory. Eva lives with her daughter in downtown Columbus.

Shawn Everette

Facilities Manager
Shawn Everette began working with glass at Illinois State University in 2005 under the instruction of artists John Miller and Carmen Lozar. Falling into the addictive potential of the medium it soon developed into the dominating form of creative expression. Experiences at Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, and Corning Museum of Glass helped to define the direction of the artistic endeavors. In 2012 he received his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working alongside Steve Feren, Lisa Koch, and Matthew Piepenbrock. He recently completed an Arts in Residence at the Works, honing his artistic undertakings for the greater artistic world. His works are a fabrication of the remnants of memory and visions of perspective objects of a youthful imagination. Facilitated through blown, cast, and flameworked glass these vignettes of nostalgic mythos and heroic ethos are created as an attempt to capture the ideologies of our culture. shawneverette.com

Shawn's office hours:
Monday and Wednesday: 930am to 230pm
Sunday: Noon to 5pm

Amy Mallat
Office Manager

Amy Mallat, has 15 years of experience in the non-profit world, including activism, fundraising, community organizing, outreach and education. She has worked with such diverse groups as Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed, Ohio Art League, and the Ohio Midwives Alliance, and served as the Director for the Zoe Buyalos Fund. Her latest project is a social club for elementary-school-age kids who wear leg braces, which she coordinates with her 9-year-old daughter Ellie. An artist and art patron, her work in fiber appears in local exhibitions. She is also active in the healing arts community as a practicing Licensed Massage Therapist.

2) Interns
collaborate with both our staff and our artists while gaining unique experience in the art world

Jeneane Dunlap
Communications Intern

Pursuing a BFA in Art/Technology with a creative writing minor, Jeneane has a fierce desire to connect. As Glass Axis webmaster and social media assistant at CAMA (Columbus Arts Marketing Association), she focuses on communication.

3) Member Artists (listed in alphabetical order)
Glass Axis has over 140 Member artists working in all glass-making genres. Find out more about our amazing talent.

Phyllis and Bob Chandler (Torchworking)