Charlie Manion is a Midwestern glass and sound artist who connects aesthetic experiences to material processes. He has worked as a scientific glassblower, touring musician, and is the scenic designer for CAROL Performance Group, an experimental theater company in New York. 

His artwork has been exhibited at Westbeth Gallery, the Design Museum of Chicago, the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, and in residence at Millennium Park in Chicago, in collaboration with the Experimental Sound Studio and Antennae Journal.

He was the public glass studio manager at Firebird Community Arts, a trauma-recovery nonprofit for Chicagoans injured by gun violence, before pursuing an MFA at the NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He writes about glass as a Lois F. McNeil Fellow at the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture.

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