After studying at a Fine Arts College in Germany, Claudia Trimbur-Pagel worked for 10 years as a graphic designer in the Paris region. Now working in the north od France, she discovered glass by accident in 2005 and started as a self-taught practitioner. Subsequently, she took several classes with Sarah Hornik, Diana East and Akihiro…

Artist Dan Alexander has been working with glass for 17 years. He was always interested in art, history, nature, and creating. After seeing glass being made for the first time he knew this was a trade he had to master. He attended Kent State University and received a BFA-Glass Concentration. In college he was able…

Dan Mirer began his education at age 16, attending the Rochester Institute of Technology (AAS). He continued to study glass at Alfred University (BFA) and the Pukeberg School of Design, Sweden. A resident of Corning, N.Y., Mirer has been an independent designer/maker since 2004. He creates a range of work including tableware and home décor….

Dan Mirer began his education at age 16, attending the Rochester Institute of Technology (AAS). He continued to study glass at Alfred University (BFA) and the Pukeberg School of Design, Sweden. A resident of Corning, N.Y., Mirer has been an independent designer/maker since 2004. He creates a range of work including tableware and home décor….

More than 20 years of Framework business, 10 years of international teaching. Official glassblowing teacher of Boston University and Abate Zanetti Murano glass school. He is Always looking for new artistic expression of the glass never losing the view of business. This combination gives to Davide something that no so often you can find: work…

Davide Salvadore was born into a family of glassworkers in Murano, Italy. In 1978 he began producing lamp-worked beads in his mother Anna Mantoan’s jewelry studios; this would lead to a series of collaborations with fashion and design houses such as Roberta di Camerino, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Swatch. In 1987 he founded the studio…

Jamex de la Torre (b. 1960, Guadalajara, Mexico) is a sculptor who primarily works in glass with his brother, Einar de la Torre (b. 1963 in Guadalajara, Mexico). The brothers moved to California in 1972 and graduated from California State University Long Beach.Their work is based on their Mexican-American bi-cultural experiences, and because they use…

Dean Allison is an artist that lives and works in Penland North Carolina. He currently works as the Glass Coordinator at the Penland School of Crafts. He received his Master of Art, Visual Arts in Glass from The Australian National University in Canberra in 2010 and a B.S. in Studio Arts from Illinois State University…

Demetra Theofanous is a Greek American artist, living in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She was immersed in the arts from a very young age, but this thirst for expression was temporarily diverted, when she received her business degree from the Haas School of Business, at UC Berkeley.  She graduated and spent time working in…

Demir Kardaş was born in Istanbul in 1950. He graduated from the School of Business at Istanbul University in 1974. He made oil and acryl painting (2004-2006) and collage (2006-2007). From 2006 to 2010, he studied design and printmaking at Ergün Başar′s workshop. Kardaş also attended gravure seminars, which were held at IMOGA (Istanbul Graphic Art…

She was born in 1990, in Istanbul. Graduated from Anadolu University Fine Arts Faculty Glass Department in 2013. She took a course between 2011-2012 in Poland, E. Geppery Academy of Art and Design. Her pieces took place in several exhibitions in Norway, Poland, Italy, Korea and Turkey. She won an award with her piece called…

Dr. Donghai Guan has a long history in contemporary glass and is experienced in many techniques.  For the last decade he has concentrated on kiln casting. His works are exhibited and collected internationally. In addition to exhibiting art works he has also designed cast glass gongs for mass production. Donghai is the founding Director of the Glass…

Julie Anne Denton graduated from her Glass degree in 2000 and is now living her dream; making glass full-time. She demonstrates at Glass festivals worldwide, teaches courses in flame working and sandcasting all over Europe and creates artworks for galleries and museums.Julie credits her time at the University of Wolverhampton for her current career path.

Ed Kirshner of Oakland, California was born in New York City in 1940. He studied architecture and sculpture at Cornell University, the University of California at Berkeley and the Oskar Kokoschka School of Vision in Austria. After thirty years of developing and financing affordable housing, he returned to study art at the California College of…

An American Master Glassblower, Edward Schmid was born in Chicago in 1964. Ed has been working with hot glass since 1984. He is also the guy that literally wrote the book on glassblowing; namely the world’s best-selling texts on how-to do it: “Beginning Glassblowing” and “Advanced Glassworking Techniques”. Ed also teaches at his studio in Pacific…

Emanuel Toffolo was born in Murano in 1982, and ever since he has been surrounded by the art of glass. He followed in his father’s Cesare footsteps and a long family lineage of celebrated glass artists. Upon graduating in 2000 from the high school of art in Venice, he began flameworking glass. Thanks to his…

Master Glassblower Emil Kováč started his career in the Czech glass industry in theeighties. After finishing his training at the renowned Novy Bor Glass school he worked forseveral glass manufacturing companies throughout the region. Emil has since worked asa freelance glassmaker throughout Europe and America and started to develop his ownunique glasswork and designs.The first…

Emma Biggs (born 1956) is a London-based mosaic artist. She graduated in Fine Art from Leeds University in the UK. In 1987 she set up Mosaic Workshop, the UK’s biggest mosaic studio, making new and original work for clients as diverse as Westminster Cathedral, the Sultan of Oman and the Spice Girls. She has written…

Emma Varga was born in former Yugoslavia, in 1952. She graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1975 as Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Glass design and Ceramic sculpture. Since 1975 she works as a freelance Artist producing her own Glass Art and Design. In 1995 Emma migrated to Australia where she…

After seeing glassblowing at the Oldway Art Center in Sperryville, Virginia, Erin Garmezy became enamored with glass as an artistic medium. At 17, she bargained with Oldway owner Eric Kvarnes, trading shop work for studio lessons, and she spent every moment she could in the studio. During high school, she worked as an assistant for…

Born in Japan, Etusko Nishi has been working with glass for over 25 years. The artist has studied at prestigious schools in locations throughout the world, such as Mukogawa University­, Japan, Pilchuk Glass School in Seattle, Washington and Canberra School of Art­, Australia where the artist earned a Post­ Graduate Diploma of Art. The artist’s…

Evelyn Dunstan is born in 1961 in Auckland city. She started glass casting in 2003 after a 25 years career as a graphic artist, designer and illustrator in various industries. She has a home studio where she experiments with glazes, slip casting, raku, moulds, firing, and learning new skills with metal sculpture – welding and…

Fabrizio Acquafresca is an artist and teacher of chasing and repoussé in Italy. His family has been in the industry of chasing and repoussé since the 14th century and the technique has been passed down from generation to generation. Acquafresca has been teaching professionally for 12 years, predominantly in Florence at both the Lorenzo de…

František Janák (born 1951 in Havlíčkův Brod, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech glass artist. He creates glass sculptures and commission works, and also does series production design for different Czech glassworks. Janák completed his apprenticeship in glass cutting at the Bohemia Glassworks, Czech’s biggest producer of hand cut lead crystal. He followed with studies at the Secondary…

Fritz Dreisbach is an American studio glass artist and teacher who is recognized as one of the pioneers of the American Studio Glass Movement. Fritz Dreisbach was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Art in 1962; Oberlin Collegein Oberlin, Ohio, where he received a…

Glass artist Eskinazi was born in 1970, in Ankara. Graduated from T.E.D Ankara College (1987) and Bilkent University Fine Arts Faculty Interior Architecture and Environmental Design (1991). When she first met the Glass Furnace in 2003, she had been having a deep interest in art of glass. She took almost every classes in the Glass…

Originally from Nancy and with degrees from the Beaux-Arts school of Épinal and from CERFAV, Gérald Vatrin combines know-how and a great knowledge of art history. Glass is his main means of expressing himself: he enhances it through engravings, pigments and transparency effects. His work, which is vibrant and delicate, inspired by the shapes of…

Gerry King has been involved in all aspects of contemporary Australian glass – as an academic in his role as Head of Design at the University of South Australia; curator of many touring exhibitions in Australia, Asia and the USA; and artist. With the latter King has received international acclaim. He has worked with the…

Steeped in seven centuries of family tradition of Murano Glass, Venetian Maestro Gianni Toso has spent most of his life creating beautiful and inspiring works in glass. His constant experimentation and background in fine art led him at an early age to transcend the traditional boundaries of Murano glassblowing. Hailed as one of the foremost artists…

Grant Garmezy grew up on a working farm outside of Nashville, Tennessee. As long as he can remember, he’s been fascinated with the arts and working with his hands to create things. His artistic career began when he was very young, taking drawing classes with a local illustrator. He became serious while in his teens,…