Maria Frantzsen

Maria Frantzsen is a coordinator for several projects and programs at S12.  She has been working with glass as a medium since 1996 and earned a 1st class BA (HONS) degree in 2002, followed by a Masters degree in 2004 from the Glass department at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.  She attended Canberra School of Art as an exchange student in 2001 and has attended summer classes at Northlands Creative Glass and the Pilchuck Glass School.  She has been active as a teacher of both art and glass on different levels and has a degree in art education from Bergen Academy of Art and Design.

Maria´s work develops within the sphere of personal and collective memory where she is particularly interested in how we store and present mementoes of lived life.  Her work is in the public collection of West Norway Museum of Decorative Art and Sogn og Fjordane Art Museum.