STAR Collaboration

The STAR Collaboration (Students, Teachers, Artists-in-Residence) at Eagle Hill advances artistic approaches to education by connecting diverse learners to accomplished artists who live, learn, and create new work on campus.

The STAR Collaboration invites artists of all disciplines to come away for a semester of focused art work, and to come together with our students and teachers to facilitate learning.

STAR residents can be at any stage of their careers — emerging and well-established artists, art teachers, and those returning to former careers in the arts. STAR artists are educators-at-heart, who want to work with young people while expanding the definition of what being an educator means; who are interested in novel, interdisciplinary educational approaches; and who thrive on collaboration with others.

We provide STAR artists with studio facilities, room and board, a monthly stipend and a materials budget, dedicated, distraction-free time to make art, and opportunities to develop teaching skills through professional relationships with mentor teachers. We work with each artist to find a healthy balance of creative sanctuary and community engagement.
 

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Molly Jackson

Molly Jackson's current style of working with hot glass is spontaneous and improvisational. "I follow what the glass wants to do. I work with the way it cracks, breaks, and bends. While the glass is in the flame I search for the lines, shapes, and form that will best facilitate light and color to flow through the glass giving it natural rhythm and movement."

Since 2003, Molly Jackson glass jewelry and sculpture have been featured worldwide: in boutiques and magazines, on high-fashion runways, and worn by musicians and celebrities. Recently she has begun designing a new line of glass housewares.

She has taught locally at Worcester Center for Crafts, New Street Glass, and Snow Farm. Currently she is teaching at Technocopia Makerspace in Worcester, MA, where she has been the Glass Shop Steward and Instructor for 10 years.