Thérèse Lahaie

Therese Lahaie grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied fine art and biology at Emmanuel College. Drawn to the college chapel, she found herself enamored by the movement of light through its stained glass windows; their subtly shifting colors touched her deeply. Following this inspiration, she spent a year in London studying the history of medieval glass. Next, she sought a way to infuse the solace of light into her own work, and found it at the Massachusetts College of Art where she studied glass technology.

Light is her primary medium, in combination with other materials such as glass, which she has used as an reflective and transmissive canvas. She is a tinkerer, building kinetic sculptures that can be found in the permanent collections of the Crocker Art Museum (CA), Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Collection (NY), the DiRosa Collection (CA), and the Glassmuseet Ebeltoft, (Denmark).