Experimented with first paintings on porcelain Artist in Residence, Artpark, Lewiston, NY

First American artist commissioned by Tiffany & Co. to design and produce signature hand made porcelain dinnerware, "Markings"

Parsons School of Design, NYC, appoints Hafner head of Ceramics Program

"Kyoto Homage" porcelain collection tours nationally in shows by the American Craft Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum

  

Rosenthal Studio Line, Hafner is first American woman invited to design for this prestigious German porcelain and glass firm

American Craft Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum and Hudson River Museum feature Hafner ceramic tile installations, several of which tour nationally

Westerwald Prize for Industrial Design", for "Flash" collection produced by Rosenthal Studio Line

The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, solo exhibition

Rosenthal Studio Line introduces "New Wave" and "Suomi Black & White" collections to critical and commercial acclaim

NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Recipient

American Craft Museum, NYC, "Poetry of the Physical", (traveling exhibition)

Design commission, V'Soske, NYC limited edition hand tufted
carpet, "Jitterbug Phone Call".

This 1987 carpet is now on national tour in "US Design 1975-2000", organized by the Denver Museum of Art

"Design USA", traveling exhibition organized by the US Information Agency

 Fieldcrest Canon, USA, designed signature collections in print and woven textiles,
1990 - 1992		 Hafner begins glass blowing in response to a scuba diving expedition in Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Private study at Urban Glass, NYC

Tesserae vessels began. Hafner designed and fabricated glass collages for roll-up onto clear vessels. A team headed by Lino Tagliapietra was then brought in to form the vessels to shapes of her design. Series ran 4 years.

Heller Gallery, NYC, first solo show of glass

Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, solo exhibition

Barovier Galerie, Venice, Italy, group exhibition

NY Foundation for the Arts/ Fellissimo Design Award

Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal, "Designed for Delight," (traveling exhibition)

Heller Gallery, NYC, solo exhibition

Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI (Glass Invitational)

Hafner began first fused and kiln formed glass panels

 Tampa Museum of Art, FL, "Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and its Origins"

Garth Clark Gallery, NYC, retrospective exhibition of Hafner's porcelains from the 1980's

Denver Museum of Art, CO, "US Design, 1975-2000", (traveling exhibition)

 Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, "Trial by Fire: CONTEMPORARY GLASS"
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Moved to NYC with a Fine Arts degree from Skidmore College and set up painting and ceramics studio       "Confetti", second Tiffany collection featured in Christmas catalog, produced 1981-1991, by hand in NYC studio  

Rosenthal Studio Line introduces Hafner's "Flash" dinnerservice, winning numerous awards and citations for innovations in tableware design

Artist in Residence, Fabric Workshop, NYC and Philadelphia

Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, first solo exhibition of porcelain 		    Cover photo feature, "History of American Ceramics", by Elaine Levin     Book Cover Feature, "Designing for the Table", Michael Wolk, 234 pp.          

Bard Center for the Decorative Arts, NYC, "Women Designers in the USA. 1900-2000"

Book cover photo, "THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS, A DECADE OF COLLECTING", by David Whitehouse