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Annika Nelson
Senior Director of Craft and Glass Centers
Annika Nelson, M.A., has her Masters in Education with a focus on Dual Language Education from San Diego State University. She has worked as a professional artist, arts educator, and arts administrator for her entire career, most recently as the Director of the Department of Arts, Humanities, and Languages and Digital Arts at UC San Diego Extension.
While majoring in studio art at UC Santa Cruz, Nelson also studied at the renowned university of applied arts, Hochschule fur Angewandete Kunst in Vienna, Austria. After graduating, she turned her focus to arts education and illustration. At the Children’s Museum/Museo de los Niños in San Diego, she created and managed numerous classes and art-making activities for young people in her role as art director.
Nelson has illustrated a number of books including "Folk Wisdom of Mexico "(Chronicle Books, 1994), "Canto Familiar" (Harcourt Brace, 1995), and "Colors of Me" (Sleeping Bear Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in numerous publications for diverse companies and organizations, such as Patagonia, Elite Racing, McMillan Companies, Aesthetics Inc. and the Arthritis Foundation - San Diego Chapter. Her growing list of public art installations includes the interactive murals at Rady Children's Hospital Clinics and a sculpture series at the Tidelands Park in Coronado, California. Her latest installation includes three whimsical bicycle racks along 101 in Leucadia, California.
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Alexander Rosenberg
Assistant Director of the Glass Center
Alexander Rosenberg is an artist, educator and writer based in San Diego. He received a Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in glass from Rhode Island School of Design. His work is rooted in the study of glass as a material, in conjunction with broad interdisciplinary practice crossing over into many other media and research areas.
Alexander pursues his art practice with artist residencies, teaching, performances and exhibitions locally and internationally. He is the recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship (2025), the 2012 International Glass Prize, an Awesome Foundation Grant (2019), The Sheldon Levin Memorial Residency at the Tacoma Museum of Glass, and a Windgate Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. He has attended artist residencies at The Arctic Circle Residency, The MacDowell Colony, Wheaton Arts, Urban Glass, Vermont Studio Center, StarWorks, Pilchuck Glass School, GlazenHuis in Belgium, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Worcester Craft Center. His writing has been published in Glass Quarterly Magazine, The Glass Art Society Journal, and the Art Blog. He is a Corning Fellow, a founding member of Hyperopia Projects (2010 - 2018), headed the glass program at University of the Arts (2010 - 2017), and was an artist member of Vox Populi gallery (2012 - 2015). He was cast on the Netflix Series, Blown Away in 2018 and taught at Salem Community College from 2017 - 2022. He was the Glass Studio Director at Wheaton Arts from 2022 - 2025 and is currently the Assistant Director of the UC San Diego Glass Center.
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Christopher Moore
Glass Center Technician
Chris Moore has worked in the field of studio glass for more than thirty years. With experience as a full-time artistic glassblower and studio equipment technician, he brings a deep well of technical knowledge and hands-on expertise to the Glass Center. He has studied glasswork throughout the United States and internationally, and considers his role as Glass Center Technician as his dream position.
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Marina Bogdanova
Business Manager
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