Rene Culler, MFA is the founder and coordinator of the Glass Program at the University of South Alabama. She was awarded a Senior Research Fulbright fellowship to South Korea in 2012. Culler's work can be seen in the permanent collections of the American Museum of Art, Smithsonian, on permanent display at the Luce Center in Washington, DC. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Spanish National Museum of Glass in Alcorcon, near Madrid. Culler's work is in many private and corporate collections including those of the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland University Hospitals, Robert Woods Johnson Hospital, ForestCity Enterprises Science + Technology Park, Chicago, the Glass Furnace in Istanbul, Turkey, and Developers Diversified headquarters. She has been commissioned annually by the Musical Arts Society of the Cleveland Orchestra. Rene Culler is the author of "Glass Art From the Kiln."