Artist in Residence

October 10-12 | Greenfield Village Weaving Shop

Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe) is The Henry Ford's inaugural Indigenous Artist in Residence. Thompson was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her bachelor of fine arts in textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. As a textile artist and designer, she derives her inspiration from family history, Ojibwe heritage and the broader Native American experience. Skillfully and intuitively working with both natural and synthetic materials, Thompson's multimedia artwork expands various textile traditions' inherited ways of being and becoming.

Thompson's work has been exhibited at All My Relations Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art and Franconia Sculpture Park, among others. Her work is collected by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota Historical Society, North Dakota Museum of Art, Hood Museum, Tia Collection, Field Museum and more.

In addition to her fine arts practice, Thompson runs a knitwear business, Makwa Studio. She is an emerging curator of contemporary Native art and has curated special exhibits in Minnesota's Twin Cities, including at Two Rivers Gallery, the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

July 28-August 1 | Greenfield Village Glass Shop

Boyd Sugiki and Lisa Zerkowitz began blowing glass together at Rhode Island School of Design in 1995. Together they own a studio in Seattle where they design and produce a line of studio glass collaboratively under the name Two Tone Studios. They have taught workshops and completed residencies at institutions such as The Studio of Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Craft and Pittsburgh Glass Center.

They have lectured and demonstrated at universities throughout the U.S. and Japan, as well as in Korea, Australia, Ireland, Turkey and Finland. In 2020 they relocated to Toyama, Japan, where Sugiki took on a four-year temporary contract as associate professor of hot glass at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art.

May 22-26 | Greenfield Village Glass Shop

Nick Mount, a pioneer in Australian glass art since the early '70s, established Victoria's first private hot glass studio with his partner Pauline. They developed an internationally recognized arts practice known for technical and artistic excellence.

Nick has exhibited widely, with works in over 20 public collections internationally. His award-winning Martini Set is in the Art Gallery of South Australia, and he designed the limited-edition Penfolds Ampoule.

Founded in the historic and cultural traditions of the Venetians, inspired by the collaborative nature of studio glass, and cultivated by the local and international glass community, Nick's work tells a uniquely Australian story of partnership and persistence, industry and innovation, experimentation and growth.