A 2024 film highlighting the career of Salem Community College Distinguished Alumnus and internationally acclaimed artist Paul Stankard won the best feature documentary award at the recent Jersey Shore Film Festival.
A 2024 film highlighting the career of Salem Community College Distinguished Alumnus and internationally acclaimed artist Paul Stankard won the best feature documentary award at the recent Jersey Shore Film Festival.
Titled “Paul Stankard: Flower and Flame,” the film was created by acclaimed filmmaker Dan Collins.
Released earlier this year and shown at SCC’s International Flameworking Conference to rave reviews, the documentary recounts Stankard’s fascinating life, including his struggles through school with undiagnosed dyslexia.
Stankard proudly traces his roots in the glass world to Salem County Technical Institute (Salem Community College’s predecessor institution), where he graduated in scientific glassblowing in 1963. Today, the Mantua resident is recognized as a pioneer in the student-glass movement and considered a living master in the art of the medium. His work is represented in more than 70 museums around the world.
SCC’s artist-in-residence, Stankard was instrumental in creating SCC’s Glass Art degree program (Associate in Fine Arts) and founding the International Flameworking Conference, both in 2001. Through Paul and his wife’s generosity, SCC students benefit annually from the Paul and Patricia Stankard Glass Scholarship.
To learn more about “Paul Stankard: Flower and Flame,” visit www.flowerandflamefilm.com.