Alison L. Sigethy
After 20 years in marketing and print production, Alison
left the corporate world to pursue her love of paddling and
art. She stays busy making kayaks and other environment-
inspired sculptures in her glass studio and paddles whenever
she can.
Paddling Experience
Alison has been paddling for seven years and teaching
kayaking for six. She is an ACA Open Water Instructor,
an ACA Adaptive Paddling Instructor, and a BCU 4-star
paddler. Alison does a great deal of teaching in the DC &
Northern VA area and is well known for her teaching ability.
She is a lead guide and instructor for the following:
• Canoe, Kayak and Paddle Company, Reston, Virginia (2001-present)
• Coastal Kayak, Fenwick Island, Delaware (2003-present)
• Carpe Diem Kayak Company, Fredericksburg, Virginia (2005-present)
• Soaring Spirits Paddle Company, Alexandria, Virginia (2007-present)
• Chesapeake Kayak School, Annapolis, Maryland (2005-2007)
• Potomac Paddlesports, Potomac, Maryland (2002-2007)
Alison also runs a small non-profit kayak school to teach Greenland kayaking
skills to individuals with disabilities. Visit www.SoaringSpiritsPaddleCompany for
more information about the school.
Paddling Symposiums and Events
Alison has been an invited coach, instructor, or presentor at the following events:
• Downeast Kayak Symposium, Bar Harbor ME, 2006-2007
• Chesapeake Paddlers Association SK102, 2004, 2006-2008
• BCU Week, Sea Kayak Georgia, 2005 (also invited for 2006-2007)
• East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival, Charlotte, NC 2006-2008
• Delmarva Paddler's Retreat, 2006-2008
• SUNY Plattsburg, 2007
• SSTIKS, 2007
• Michigan Qajaq Training Camp, 2007
Alison is also an EMT, Wilderness EMT, CPR instructor, and teaches Wilderness
First Aid for: • Wilderness Safety Council (throughout the mid-Atlantic region)
Art Experience Click here to see a movie about Alison's glass work & samples.
Alison studied theater and lighting design at Mason Gross School of the Arts at
Rutgers University and received degrees in Interior Design and Art History from
Marymount University. She is a member of several glass guilds and was
Chairman of the 2004 Glass Arts Festival, a bi-annual event sponsored by the
National Capitol Art Glass Guild, the Glen Echo Glass Art Consortium, and the
National Park Service. She is also on the faculty at the Washington Glass
School, is a member of Gallery West in Alexandria, and a Torpedo Factory Artist
(come and see her in studio 307).
Recent Art Shows include:
• Artomatic 2008, Washington DC, May-June 2008
• Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival, Reston VA, May 17-18, 2008
• Variety in Media, Montgomery College, Rockville MD, March 2008
• Glass 3 International Exhibition, Georgetown Park, Washington, DC, Feb. 2008
• Mystery of Glass, Carroll Arts Center, Westminster, MD, January 2008
• 12th Biennial Ikebana Invitational, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA, January 2008
• Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA November 2007
• Rossdhu Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD October 2007
• Sea Dance, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA, September 2007
• Beyond Craft, Touchet Gallery, Baltimore, MD, July 2007
• Washington Glass School Exhibition, Zenith Gallery, Washington DC, June 2007
• Citizen Artists, Empower Women International, Alexandria, VA, June 2007
• Myriad Forms of Glass, Arts Afire, Alexandria, VA, June 2007
• H&F Fine Arts Debut Show, Mt Rainier, MD, May 2007
• Creative Craft Council Biennial Juried Show, Rockville, MD, May 2007
• Artomatic, Crystal City, April 2007
• TFAA New Artists, Target Gallery, Maurine Littleton, juror, March 2007
• The Studio Gallery Invitational Show, Washington DC, January 2007
• Nat'l Capitol Art Glass Guild Annual Juried Show, Quiet Waters Park, Nov. 2006
• Compelled by Content II, Fraser Gallery, April 2006
Art Awards:
• Emerging Artist Award, Artomatic 2007, Gallery Director Catroina Fraser
• Curator's Award, Containers/Contained, Target Gallery, Curator: Twyla Moyer,
Editor, Sculpture Magazine, June 2005
• Artomatic Top 10 Picks Lists: Milena Kalinouska, Hirshorn Museum program
manager, Catroina Fraser, gallery director, Tracy Lee, photographer, Tim Tate,
glass artist, Claudia Rousseau, art critic
Memberships
American Canoe Association
British Canoe Union
QajaqUSA
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
National Parks Conservation Association
Potomac Conservancy
American Craft Council
Del Ray Artisans
Glass Arts Society
National Capitol Art Glass Guild
Renwick Alliance
Tree Climbers International
Alison and her husband, Tom Milani, live near the water in Northern Virginia.
Click here to find out how you can contact her.
left the corporate world to pursue her love of paddling and
art. She stays busy making kayaks and other environment-
inspired sculptures in her glass studio and paddles whenever
she can.
Paddling Experience
Alison has been paddling for seven years and teaching
kayaking for six. She is an ACA Open Water Instructor,
an ACA Adaptive Paddling Instructor, and a BCU 4-star
paddler. Alison does a great deal of teaching in the DC &
Northern VA area and is well known for her teaching ability.
She is a lead guide and instructor for the following:
• Canoe, Kayak and Paddle Company, Reston, Virginia (2001-present)
• Coastal Kayak, Fenwick Island, Delaware (2003-present)
• Carpe Diem Kayak Company, Fredericksburg, Virginia (2005-present)
• Soaring Spirits Paddle Company, Alexandria, Virginia (2007-present)
• Chesapeake Kayak School, Annapolis, Maryland (2005-2007)
• Potomac Paddlesports, Potomac, Maryland (2002-2007)
Alison also runs a small non-profit kayak school to teach Greenland kayaking
skills to individuals with disabilities. Visit www.SoaringSpiritsPaddleCompany for
more information about the school.
Paddling Symposiums and Events
Alison has been an invited coach, instructor, or presentor at the following events:
• Downeast Kayak Symposium, Bar Harbor ME, 2006-2007
• Chesapeake Paddlers Association SK102, 2004, 2006-2008
• BCU Week, Sea Kayak Georgia, 2005 (also invited for 2006-2007)
• East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival, Charlotte, NC 2006-2008
• Delmarva Paddler's Retreat, 2006-2008
• SUNY Plattsburg, 2007
• SSTIKS, 2007
• Michigan Qajaq Training Camp, 2007
Alison is also an EMT, Wilderness EMT, CPR instructor, and teaches Wilderness
First Aid for: • Wilderness Safety Council (throughout the mid-Atlantic region)
Art Experience Click here to see a movie about Alison's glass work & samples.
Alison studied theater and lighting design at Mason Gross School of the Arts at
Rutgers University and received degrees in Interior Design and Art History from
Marymount University. She is a member of several glass guilds and was
Chairman of the 2004 Glass Arts Festival, a bi-annual event sponsored by the
National Capitol Art Glass Guild, the Glen Echo Glass Art Consortium, and the
National Park Service. She is also on the faculty at the Washington Glass
School, is a member of Gallery West in Alexandria, and a Torpedo Factory Artist
(come and see her in studio 307).
Recent Art Shows include:
• Artomatic 2008, Washington DC, May-June 2008
• Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival, Reston VA, May 17-18, 2008
• Variety in Media, Montgomery College, Rockville MD, March 2008
• Glass 3 International Exhibition, Georgetown Park, Washington, DC, Feb. 2008
• Mystery of Glass, Carroll Arts Center, Westminster, MD, January 2008
• 12th Biennial Ikebana Invitational, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA, January 2008
• Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA November 2007
• Rossdhu Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD October 2007
• Sea Dance, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA, September 2007
• Beyond Craft, Touchet Gallery, Baltimore, MD, July 2007
• Washington Glass School Exhibition, Zenith Gallery, Washington DC, June 2007
• Citizen Artists, Empower Women International, Alexandria, VA, June 2007
• Myriad Forms of Glass, Arts Afire, Alexandria, VA, June 2007
• H&F Fine Arts Debut Show, Mt Rainier, MD, May 2007
• Creative Craft Council Biennial Juried Show, Rockville, MD, May 2007
• Artomatic, Crystal City, April 2007
• TFAA New Artists, Target Gallery, Maurine Littleton, juror, March 2007
• The Studio Gallery Invitational Show, Washington DC, January 2007
• Nat'l Capitol Art Glass Guild Annual Juried Show, Quiet Waters Park, Nov. 2006
• Compelled by Content II, Fraser Gallery, April 2006
Art Awards:
• Emerging Artist Award, Artomatic 2007, Gallery Director Catroina Fraser
• Curator's Award, Containers/Contained, Target Gallery, Curator: Twyla Moyer,
Editor, Sculpture Magazine, June 2005
• Artomatic Top 10 Picks Lists: Milena Kalinouska, Hirshorn Museum program
manager, Catroina Fraser, gallery director, Tracy Lee, photographer, Tim Tate,
glass artist, Claudia Rousseau, art critic
Memberships
American Canoe Association
British Canoe Union
QajaqUSA
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
National Parks Conservation Association
Potomac Conservancy
American Craft Council
Del Ray Artisans
Glass Arts Society
National Capitol Art Glass Guild
Renwick Alliance
Tree Climbers International
Alison and her husband, Tom Milani, live near the water in Northern Virginia.
Click here to find out how you can contact her.
Here's a little more about me...
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Unlike bottle glass, plate glass
and tempered glass are not
recycled. Alison does her own
recycling by reusing these
materials in her art and
keeping them out of the landfill.
Part of the sales price of each
sculpture is used to purchase
carbon offsets in excess of the
impact of the kiln.
and tempered glass are not
recycled. Alison does her own
recycling by reusing these
materials in her art and
keeping them out of the landfill.
Part of the sales price of each
sculpture is used to purchase
carbon offsets in excess of the
impact of the kiln.
By fusing and slumping the
glass several times, Alison
creates glass sculptures that
are organic and remarkably
alive.
glass several times, Alison
creates glass sculptures that
are organic and remarkably
alive.
Catroina Fraser, director of
The Fraser Gallery in
Bethesda, recently described
Alison's art: "the work is simple
and sophisticated. I love the
way that Alison has been
inspired by her environment
to create beautiful, organic
sculpture."
Click here to see more of
Alison's art work.
The Fraser Gallery in
Bethesda, recently described
Alison's art: "the work is simple
and sophisticated. I love the
way that Alison has been
inspired by her environment
to create beautiful, organic
sculpture."
Click here to see more of
Alison's art work.
Alison is a kayaker and sculptor
working in glass. Her art work is
inspired by the environment,
the rhythms of nature, and her
love of the water.
working in glass. Her art work is
inspired by the environment,
the rhythms of nature, and her
love of the water.
