SAMUEL Joseph CORSO

Samuel Joseph Corso is a multi-media artist with a concentration in glass and painting. He has been selected to participate in many juried and invitational exhibits throughout the United States, including exhibitions at The Mobile Museum of Art, The Regional Craft Biennial, The Arkansas Art Center, and the Glass Art National.

A former faculty member of the School of Art and the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University, he taught courses in drawing, design, and painting. He has conducted workshops in glass design and construction for Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and for various conferences of the American Crafts Council. In 2000, Corso was invited to exhibit, teach a course, and lecture on his work at the Society of Artists in Glass’s Conference in Wanganui, New Zealand.

He has many successful commissions for liturgical art including installations at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; St. Theresa Catholic Church, Delhi, Louisiana; and the St. Ignatius Residence, New Orleans, Louisiana. He has received prestigious commissions from Louisiana State’s Percent-for-Art program, completing stained glass installations in the W.C.C. Claiborne Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and several buildings on the LSU campus.

He was selected for inclusion in New Glass Review IV, a selection of the "100 Best Glass Designers" in the world for 1982 by the Corning Museum of Glass.

Corso formed, along with Baton Rouge Gallery founding member Paul A Dufour, his former mentor, Dufour/Corso Studios, Ltd., which provides site-specific and speculative artwork.