Instructors
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Carmen Lozar
Carmen Lozar lives and works in Normal, Il. She has spent most of her artistic career working with glass at the flameworking torch. Her figurative narratives touch on the eccentricities of everyday life. She exhibits widely and is in the permanent collections of The Tacoma Museum of Glass, Museum of Art and Design in NY and the Bergstrom Mahler Museum, WI. Lozar enjoys teaching her craft and is faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. She often spends summers sharing her knowledge at places such as Pilchuck Glass School, Ox Bow School of Craft, Corning Museum of Glass and Penland School of Craft.
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Matthew Szosz
Matthew Szösz is a practicing artist and educator known primarily for his innovative use of glass to explore the relationship between experimentation, process and aesthetic product. He received his BFA, BID, and MFA(Glass) from Rhode Island School of Design.
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Dylan Karle
Dylan Karle was born and raised in New York City. He began school for biochemistry, but once he found flameworking and discovered Salem Community College he left his biochemical studies to pursue dual degrees in scientific and artistic glass blowing.
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Jay Macdonell
Jay has worked for many studios since 1992 for various artists, designers and architects as a project manager, design consultant and gaffer. He has worked for artists such as Laura and Alessandro De Santillana, Xu Bing, Angelo Filomeno, Bruce Mau, Catherine Chalmers, and Mildred Howard and has taught at Pilchuck Glass School, The Bay Area Glass institute in San Jose, Pittsburg Glass School, Espace Verre in Montreal and the Royal Copenhagen School of Art and Architecture on the island of Bornholm, Denmark.
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Julia and Robin Rogers
Julia and Robin Rogers share a passion for sculpture and molten glass. After assisting each other for a decade, they decided to combine forces and create collaboratively.
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Kit Paulson
Kit Paulson received her MFA from Southern Illinois University and her BFA from Alfred University.
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Brent Rogers
Brent Rogers was born and raised in Seattle, Washington where he worked as a production glass blower and designer at the Glass eye studio.
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Jiri Pacinek
Jiri Pacinek started his career in glass in the early 1990’s, when he joined Chribska 1414 Glass Works.
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Iryna Stepanchuk
Iryna Stepanchuk is a Certified Public Accountant with comprehensive industry knowledge and hands-on experience in providing support in the areas of tax, accounting, and business operations to small- and mid-sized businesses and individuals.
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Chris Wolston
CHRIS WOLSTON is a New York and Medellín-based artist whose work explores both the material vernacular of the modern day, and the fetishization of process. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, and later traveled to Colombia on a Fulbright grant.
Inspired by manual techniques and the regional contrasts between his Brooklyn and Medellín studios, Wolston creates work that demonstrates playful adaptations of materials, often mixing high- and low-tech processes. Wolston’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of American Glass, and the Museo de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia.
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John Hallett
John Hallett lives and works in New York City. Born and raised in Adelaide, Australia, he has worked in a variety of creative and instructional roles throughout Australia, Europe and the United States, including having spent time working and learning from professional mold makers in Murano and Czech Republic. John holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from the University of South Australia and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend
Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, a past board member of the Glass Art Society (1982-86) and an Honorary Life Member, served as the first woman president from 1984-86. She was a partner and co-creator of the architectural glass studio, Renaissance Glass, from 1973-1987 in Austin, Texas.
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Robert Panepinto
Robert Panepinto has been working in glass for over twenty years and started at Urban Glass.
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Sydney Cash
Cash has had a diverse and experimental career, creating with flat glass, mirror, painting, pattern and portraiture. He’s explored process, material science, movement and personality.
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Holly Cooper
"Working out of my studio in Austin, TX, I have been a professional artist my entire working career. With a background in painting, art history, ceramics, textiles, jewelry and finally glass, my work melds all of these disparate disciplines into my creative work. I draw inspiration from a variety of cultural and historical traditions and incorporate them into my glass beads."
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Kate Clements
Kate Clements is an artist who lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Over the past decade, her delicate glass installations and headdresses have been displayed throughout the United States. Clements' work explores a variety of mediums - from glass and textile to sculpture and installation - that centers on the capricious and often vicious life-cycles of fashion, adornment, and ornament.
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Kristin Deady
Kristin is the Glass Education Administrator at Salem Community College (SCC), overseeing both the Glass Art and Scientific Glass Technology programs at SCC’s Glass Education Center. Prior to SCC Kristin was the Glass Technician at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University; and taught in the glass departments at Tyler and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Kristin received an AA from Salem Community College in 2005, her BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2010, and completed her MFA at the Tyler School of Art in 2014. Recent exhibitions include the 74th Woodmere Annual in Philadelphia, the Governors’ Island Art Fair in New York, and Kristin’s large-scale installation Amplified Aberration was exhibited in 2017 at the Philadelphia International Airport.
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Elise Bernhardt
Fleur Elise Bkln is a Flower Market to Table floral design company started by Elise Bernhardt in 2018.. Bernhardt sources her flowers at the 28th street Flower Market and delivers flower arrangements in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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Amy di Giacomo
Amy is a Yoga Alliance certified Vinyasa Yoga instructor that has been bringing her Workplace Wellness program to offices in Manhattan since 2013.
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Jenny Crescuillo
Jennifer Crescuillo is an internationally exhibited artist currently living and working in Silver Point, Tennessee with her family. She received her Master’s of Fine Art in glass at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has taught and worked at various glass studios, such as The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Urban Glass, and Pilchuck Glass School.
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Christopher Duffy
Mostly known for mixed media sculpture often involving glass, Christopher Duffy is part dedicated craftsman and part cultural dilettante. He was born in California in 1980, raised in Illinois. He moved to Cleveland Ohio on his eighteenth birthday to attend the Cleveland Institute of Art. In 2003 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass. In 2006 he moved to New York City and currently lives in Queens, New York.
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Erin Dickson
Erin Dickson is an artist, researcher and digital specialist based in the UK. Having completed her PhD in 2015, Dickson has worked as a digital specialist since 2010, now as Digital Specialist at Central Saint Martins, London.
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Karen Donnellan
Donnellan earned a Bachelors of Design from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. She is Assistant Professor of Glass, and Co-Director of the National Casting Center at Alfred University, NY.
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Jan Janecky
I was born in Liberec 1978. And I live in Liberec in North region of Czech Republic. Famous for his Glass tradition.
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Micah Evans
Micah Evans is a glass artist and designer living and working in Austin Texas. Glass has been an obsession for Micah since the late 90’s, he’s been known to refer to it as a disorder more than a craft or art form. His work is a balance of contemporary craft, and sculpture. Micah travels, teaches and lectures at schools and universities around the world about flameworking, design and glass subculture in the United States.
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Adrianne Evans
I grew up in the state of Pennsylvania, where twice a month I traveled through the Pocono Mountains and was fascinated by miles of road cuts. I received my undergraduate degree from Alfred University in the glacial region of New York State where I studied sculpture and glass and took the geology and astronomy courses that still inspire much of my work.
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Dan Friday
Dan Friday is a member of the Lummi Nation and a Seattle based glass artist. He has spent the last twenty years working for artists such as Dale Chihuly, Paul Marioni, Preston Singletary, and many others.
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Kambui Olujimi
Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn and received his MFA from Columbia University in New York City. Olujimi’s work challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function as "inevitabilities."
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Tim Belliveau
Tim Belliveau was born in Montréal and received his BFA in glass from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2005 and his MFA in Fibers and Material Practices from Concordia University (Montréal) in 2017.
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Giles Bettison
Giles Bettison received a bachelor's degree from the Canberra School of Art in Australia. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards for his intricate murrine vessels.
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Luisa Restrepo
Luisa Restrepo is a Mexican based, Colombian born glassmaker and jewelry designer. Her practice has mainly been based on investigating form and its permutations, experimenting with rhythm & pattern, the essential & the ambiguous, proportion & excess. Her work ranges from contemporary jewelry, collectible design, wall installations and performance. She attended Wolverhampton University, England and has exhibited and taught both nationally and internationally.
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Kazuki Takizawa
Kazuki Takizawa is a Japanese glass artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with High Honors in 2010. He has since worked and taught at various glass educational facilities including Pilchuck Glass School and Public Glass.
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Joseph Cavalieri
Joseph has taught in over 40 locations in the US, South America and Europe, including workshops at Pilchuck (Seattle), National College of Art and Design (Dublin), and The Corning Museum of Glass.
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John Roach
John Roach is an interdisciplinary artist from Queens, New York whose installations and performances translate objects and materials into unexpected forms of sensory perception. John received a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MFA in painting from Hunter College. He is a full time Faculty at Parsons School of Design where he teaches a wide range of courses that address the aesthetic, spatial, emotional, psychological and political impact of sound.
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Gigi Gatewood
Gigi Gatewood is an artist born in Buffalo and based in Hudson, NY. After receiving an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2009), she spent a year in Trinidad and Tobago (2011) as a William J. Fulbright Fellow researching and photographing the islands’ complex spiritual landscape.
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Michael Flechtner
I was born in Tiffin Ohio in 1951…Year of the Rabbit. Blood type – O neg. Gemini with Cancer rising. I have a BFA and MFA in sculpture and painting and was introduced to the use of neon as an expressive fine art material in undergraduate school during a lecture by Stephen Antonakos.
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Jesse Yager
Jesse Yager is a studio glassblower since 2002. He studied Scientific Glass Technology and Design at Salem Community College, and has traveled throughout the United States working with top professionals in glass art.
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Whitney Artell
Whitney Artell fell in love with the philosophy of yoga in college and began a regular asana practice after moving to Brooklyn in 2009.
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Ella Varvio
Ella Varvio is an artist-designer working with illustration, ceramics and glass.
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Daniel Clayman
Daniel Clayman is a sculptor who has been working with glass as his primary medium for thirty-five years. His work reveals his interests in engineering, the behavior of light, and how the memory of experience acts as the impetus for much of his work.
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Cooper O'Brien
Cooper O’Brien received his BFA in glass from RISD in 2012. He creates work that weaves the technical challenge of glass making with the larger issue of creating something worth the effort.
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Jeremy Bert
Jeremy Bert is a Pacific Northwest neon artist. Bert’s mixed media sculpture represents a strong commitment to re-usage.
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Grant Gullikson
Grant C. Gullikson has 37 years experience in all phases of the ever-changing sign industry working with wood, metal, plastic, paint and graphic design.
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Carmichael Jones
Working with a variety of materials and a field of concentration in glass, Jones makes work that explores shifting identities; the personal and the archetypal, the handmade and the readymade, the meticulous and the reckless.
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Erin S. Daily
Erin S. Daily is a metalsmith who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. . In addition to making, Erin co-owns and operates Brooklyn Metal Works.
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Suzanne Peck
Suzanne Peck is a visual artist, writer, educator and curator living in New York City. Her work considers themes of skin, touch, intimacy, and material, with a healthy scoop of irreverence on top.
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Nancy Callan
Nancy Callan’s artistic voice as a glass sculptor reflects her high-level training and talents.
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Katherine Gray
Katherine received her undergraduate degree from Ontario College of Art in Toronto, and her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.
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Pedro Cabral
Pedro Cabral lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal, where he was born in 1954. Pedro graduated from ESBAL (Lisbon’s Fine Arts School) in 1978 with a degree in architecture, and has been a practicing architect ever since.
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Dr. Jane Cook
Jane (Glen) Cook is the Chief Scientist at The Corning Museum of Glass where she is the museum's principle resource on the science and technology of glass to the public and the glass art community.
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Richard Whiteley
Richard Whiteley is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of the Glass Workshop at the School of Art + Design, Australian National University and a Visiting Professor for the China Academy of Art Glass Program, Hangzhou, China.
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Michael Stern
Michael Stern is a researcher in the Massachusetts Institute for Technology’s Mediated Matter Group.
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Brendan Keim
Brendan Keim is a lighting and furniture designer based in Brooklyn, NY
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Pavlína Čambalová
Pavlína Čambalová (b. 1986 Frýdlant, Czech Republic) studied gem cutting and engraving at the School of Applied Arts in Turnov, CZ and, thereafter, Glass Design and Engraving at the Higher Glass School in Nový Bor, CZ.
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Sayaka Suzuki
Originally from Yokohama, Japan, Sayaka Suzuki teaches Glass Casting and Kilnworking at the Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Glenn Carter
Glenn Carter is a freelance based glass maker based in Plymouth, England. His teaching experience includes roles as Glass Lecturer at Plymouth College of Art, Lincoln School of Art and roles at Urban Glass, Brooklyn, Pilchuck, Seattle, CMOG Corning and Northlands Glass, Lybster, Scotland.
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Kim Thomas
Kimberly Thomas is a biracial interdisciplinary sculptor and flameworker currently residing in Denver, Colorado. She is known for her work’s intentionally flawed and unusual motifs as well as her intricate sculptural inventions. A self-taught glass artist, Thomas earned a BFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and spent six years as a special effects make-up artist before she began flameworking in 2009.
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Mark Naylor
Mark has been working with glass as an engineering material and an artistic medium for over 15 years.
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Brent Sommerhauser
Originally from south central Kansas, Brent Sommerhauser creates sculpture, drawings, and glass works that often emphasize the coercion of invisible forces upon the evident world.
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Althea Holden
Althea Holden was born and raised in Vermont. She attended Alfred University for ceramics, but soon strayed off that path and into hot glass and neon.
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Aric Snee
Aric Snee is an artist and designer who has been working with glass for over 15 years in academic, studio and factory environments.
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Thaddeus Wolfe
Thaddeus Wolfe creates improvisational glass sculptures and lighting meant to evoke decaying, collapsing surfaces and fantastical imagined structures.
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Jessica Jane Julius
Jessica Jane Julius, is an interdisciplinary artist who uses glass and mixed media to create works that embody notions of interconnectedness, perception, and materiality while examining how fear is infiltrating the way in which we navigate the world, interpersonal relationships, and welcoming risk into our lives.
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Sunita Prasad
Sunita Prasad is a Brooklyn-based film, video, and performance artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues and institutions including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Homesession in Barcelona, Torino Performance Art in Turin, Momenta Art in New York City, and Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia.
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Nanda Soderberg
Nanda Soderberg started blowing glass at the University of Hawaii in 1994.
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Sean Salstrom
Sean Salstrom is an American artist and educator who lives and works in Stevens point, Wisconsin where he is the Assistant Professor of Hot Glass.
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William Gudenwrath
The resident advisor of The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, William Gudenrath is a glassblower, scholar, author, lecturer, and teacher.
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Nikolaj Christensen
What started as a college elective in 2001 has blossomed into a life rooted in blowing glass and in teaching others how to do the same.
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David Willis
Born in 1967, Willis grew up in a suburb of New York City then attended U.C. Berkeley earning a BA in Social Science with an emphasis on Social Change, and a Minor in Conservation and Resources Studies.
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Rob Lewis
Rob Lewis spent most of his childhood growing up on the rocky coast of Maine. He received his BFA, with honors in Glass, from The School for American Crafts, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY.
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Matteo Seguso
Matteo Seguso was born in Venice, Italy in 1973. He began apprenticing with his father at Seguso & Linzi at the age of 26, and in 2003 he achieved the status of Engraver Maestr
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Dan Mirer
Dan Mirer began his education at age 16, attending the Rochester Institute of Technology (AAS).
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Charlene Foster
Born a U.S. Air Force brat in the Philippines, Charlene Foster moved to The Last Frontier at age 10 where she later attended the University of Alaska, Anchorage for Fine Arts. When smalltown ideals clashed with her rebellious heart, she set off to the east coast where she was introduced to the world of glassblowing in 1999 through Avon Place Glass in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Simon Klenell
Simon Klenell is an artist working primarily in blown glass, based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Steven Zelin
Steven Zelin CPA is the founder of Steven Zelin CPA LLC. Born and raised in New York City, Steven (aka The Singing CPA) has been a licensed CPA for over fifteen years.
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Bryan Wilson
Bryan McGovern Wilson is a transdisciplinary artist whose work concerns issues of time, body and ritual via craft materials and performance.
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Eddie Bernard
An artist, craftsperson, designer and businessperson, Eddie Bernard was born and raised in New Iberia, LA. In 1996 he earned a BFA from RIT and founded Wet Dog Glass, LLC, a small manufacturing firm specializing in art glass processing equipment for schools, universities, museums, private and public access studios, glass labs and factories around the world. Eddie has written numerous technical articles for GASNews and has taught equipment building workshops across the US.
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Elias Hansen
Eli Hansen is an artist concerned with blending his expertise in the very traditional processes of glass, steel, and wood with an art practice that focuses on sculpture, installation, and the ready-made. By bringing together objects he creates himself with so-called found objects, he blurs the lines between the two and questions the value we place on them.
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Michelle Fisher
Michelle Millar Fisher is a Curatorial Assistant in the Architecture + Design department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a doctoral candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Shane Caryl
Shane Caryl was born in Syracuse, NY. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology where he obtained his BFA in Glass and is now back again finishing off his masters in glass. His work has been a study of pop culture and its relationship to the contemporary art scene.
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Keith Mendak
Keith Mendak is an artist, writer and educator with an MFA in material studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. Keith’s studio practice is greatly informed by his background in glass and his mixed media approach to sculpture often uses glass as primary ingredient or includes processes and appearances inherited through glass working.
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Scott Benefield
Scott Benefield is an artist, educator and writer who received his MFA from Ohio State University in 1990. He is a past president of the Glass Art Society (US) and currently serves on its Advisory Committee. In 2011 he was given the Lifetime Membership Award from the Glass Art Society and in 2013 he was a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) recipient. In 2015 he was given the second annual Rosemary James Memorial Award by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He currently lives and works in Northern Ireland.
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Eamon DeFabbia-Kane
Eamon is an artist whose work utilizes many different mediums to create various forms of sculpture. Originally from the Finger Lakes region of upstate NY, he graduated from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia with a degree in glass in 2014.
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Jennifer Bueno
Jennifer Bueno grew up in Seneca, South Carolina. Her work combines the material of glass with satellite imagery to form groundless landscapes that shift sensorial experience.
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Jeff Zimmer
Jeff Zimmer (b. 1970, USA) is a Tutor at the University of Edinburgh, taught in the Glass Department at Edinburgh College of Art, and has taught at Pilchuck (US), Bild-Werk Frauenau (DE), North Lands Creative Glass (UK), Berlin Glas (DE) and The National Sculpture Factory (Cork, IR).
