CURRENT POSITION: Full Professor, School For American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Glass Art and Study Center, Riga, Latvia
L’viv National Museum, L’viv, Ukraine
Grand Crystal Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
First Contemporary Glass Museum, Madrid, Spain
Suntory Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013
Magic Theater, European House, Riga, Latvia
VANITAS, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Natural Philosophy, Bullseye Bay Area Gallery, Emeryville, California
Bullseye at Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
Crucible Project, NCECA Conference, Houston, Texas
2012
The Magic Theater, Go/c/art Gallery, Visby, Gotland
Spillforth, Granoff Center, Cohan Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
International Glass Prize, The Object 2012, Ch. Van Der Seijs Foundation, Belgium 
Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Glass in a Museum Environment, North Lands Creative Glass/Caithness Horizons, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland.
Entamos, Exhibit A Contemporary Art, Corning, New York
Summer Glass Invitational, Exhibit A Contemporary Art, Corning, New York
A Visual Conversation, River House Arts, Perrysburg, Ohio
Penland School of Crafts 27th Annual Benefit Auction
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 50 Years of Studio Glass: 1962-2012, Louisville
This Fragile Skin, Bullseye Gallery, Emeryville, CA
2011
The Fragile Skin, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
Voice Of Glass, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Made in NY2011, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
2010
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, Palimpsests and Ephemera
Art on the Edge, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Art Santa Fe, Bullseye Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico
Messages and Written Narratives”, Chautauqua Institute, NY
“Silver Darlings” installation, abandoned church, Lybster, Scotland, North Lands
2009
SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery
“Vetri/Alt, Glass Alternatives” Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
“Flock” One Person exhibit at Bullseye Gallery in Portland Oregon
2008
“Michael Rogers and Jack Wax” Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, New York
“Clear Your Mind: Contemporary Glass Invitational, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
2007
“International Glass”, National Museum, L’viv, Ukraine
“Transformations” Society For Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
“Vessels-Collection”, Koganezaki Glass Museum, Ugusu Nishiizu-cho, Japan
“Glass Curiosities”, Corning Museum, Corning, New York
“Patination”, Michael Rogers and Richard Hirsch, Clark Gallery, Lincoln. MA
2006
“The Glass Voice”, Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Riga, Latvia
Memorial Art Gallery Biennial, Rochester, New York
“Compelled by Content II”, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
2005
The Edges Of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft , The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.
Glass Sculpture, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska
2004
“Joyce In Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce”, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2003
“In-Visibility”, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
SOFA Chicago, Gallerie Catarina Tognon, Italy
Glass Art/Sculpture, Glass Art and Study Center, Riga, Latvia
“The Other Side Of The Looking Glass, The Glass Body And It’s Metaphors”, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, California
“Remnants”, Gallery Plannet, Nagoya, Japan