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Christina Bothwell
Christina Bothwell (born in New York City) is a contemporary sculptor who works in ceramics and cast glass.She is known for her figures of animals, babies and children made using a lost wax casting process. Her work is represented in the public collections of the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Museum of Contemporary Glass, Denmark, the Smithsonian Museum of Art’s Archives of American Art, Corning Glass Museum, New York, and the Lowe Art Museum, Florida, among others.

Biography
Bothwell studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with American artist Wil Barne t Bothwell grew up in an unconventional family, with a mother who was an artist and a father who was a psychologist. Bothwell studied ceramics as well as painting before she turned to glass in her early forties.

After graduation, Bothwell focused on clay, creating small figures resembling dolls. In 1999, she took a glass workshop at the Corning Museum of Glass and began exploring glass as the primary medium for her sculptures. She has a studio in rural Pennsylvania, where she lives with her family.

Works
Bothwell's work appear in museums such as the Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio, the Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts, the Racine Museum, Wisconsin, as well as international institutions such as the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Glass Art in China and the Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation in Germany.