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,…

Guclu Polat was born in 1985, in Mersin. Graduated from Anadolu University Fine Arts Faculty, Glass Department. Finished his master degree at the Anadolu University as well. In the meantime, he had an opportunity to take glass courses in the University of Creative Arts, UK, in 2008. He worked in the Glass Furnace as an…

I was born in 1986, in Ankara. I’m graduated from Baskent University, Banking and Finance Department. In 2010, I started at our family business Hasal Cam Aletleri; an engineering company that produces glass processing equipment as an expert on foreign trade. While I was working there, I ran into a torch in the office. First, I had…

Harlan W. Butt is a Regents Professor of Art at the University of North Texas where he has taught since 1976. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally for over thirty years and spent a year studying enameling and metalsmithing in Kyoto, Japan. Harlan is past President of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG),…

Helga Seimel, uses the mandrel wound bead technique to bring vitality to her designs. Her glass beads provide an interesting contrast to the beadmaking industry of Landsberg am Lech in Germany where she lives. She has developed techniques to make hollow beads from solid grass rods using the madrel wound process, which allows for larger…

She was born in Istanbul. After completing her higher education in Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture, she lived in Germany between 1976-1984. During this time, she participated in mixed ceramic exhibitions in many cities of Germany. She met with CAs her return to Turkey in 1991 and obtained her own studio…

Hitoshi Hongo was born in 1964 in Akita,Japan. He studied glass art at Tokyo Glass Art Institute after majoring in metal engineering at Tohoku University. He has working and teaching experience both as instructor and teaching assistant in various institutions including Glass Studio Tatosha, Pilchuck Glass School and Glass Furnace Istanbul. Hongo has been teaching at Toyama City Institute of Glass Art for 11…

Working out of her studio in Austin Texas, Holly has been a professional artist her entire working career. With a background in painting, art history, textiles, ceramics and finally glass, her work melds all of these disparate disciplines into her complex decorative work. She draws inspiration from a variety of cultural and historical traditions and…

Jack Wax was born in 1954 in New York. He graduated with honors from Rhode Island School of Design in 1983 with his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture. Since 1983 Mr. Wax has taught at a number of Institutions of higher learning including: Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, The University of the Arts,…

James McLeod is a professor or 3D Fine Art / Glass at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design where he has been teaching since 2006.  McLeod earned his MFA in Sculpture from New York University and BFA in Glass from the California College of Art.  McLeod has studied and taught at the Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack…

James Minson is a third-generation glassworker. His grandparents, who were scientific glassblowers in London, established the Minson Scientific Company in Sydney, Australia. Minson has degrees from the Sydney College of Art and Tama University in Tokyo, where he studied on a research scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education. He was a member of the…

James Mongrain was introduced to glass at Moorhead State University in Minnesota, and later studied glassblowing at Massachusetts College of Art and the Appalachian Center for Crafts. He has worked with Jim Dine, Kiki Smith, Jeff Koons, Robert Wilson, and Walter Lieberman. In 1997, Mongrain opened Mongrain Glass in Mukilteo, WA. He has been a…

American artist James Thurman teaches at Metal and Jewellery department in University of North Texas Fine Arts Faculty. As an assistant professor, he also coordinates 3D art program. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University sculpture department, then took his master degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art – Metal and Jewellry department. He finished his 4…

Jan Hein van Stiphout (1956, Tilburg, Holland) is an autonomous glass artist and instructor in glass techniques based in the Netherlands. He is co owner of the Glasveredelingsatelier company and has formed a collaboration ‘De Maatschap International’ with two other artists. His work features in many international museum collections.

Janusz Poźniak has been blowing glass for more than 28 years, working with some of the best artists and glassblowers in the world. He has worked closely with Dante Marioni for many years, and shares a studio with him in Seattle. For almost two decades, he has taught at many of the schools in America,…

Jason Chakravarty began incorporating glass through the use of neon into his sculpture in 1998 while attending Arizona State University. He was employed for four years at a commercial neon sign shop where he learned technical fundamentals of the neon process. In 2002 he began illuminating hot shop forms and kiln casting glass while attending…

Jason Christian is a glass artist living in the Seattle area. He was born in 1976 to a metal fabricator and a cardiac nurse. He became involved in glass art at the age of 21 — starting as a factory charger, slowly developing his glass knowledge through experience. He has worked with a variety of…

Born in 1949 in Sacramento, California, USA, Jay Musler has been recognized as an innovative force in the glass arts for over three decades, having twice been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts. He studied with Marvin Lipofsky at the California College of Arts and Crafts in the late 1960s, and worked…

Jean Pierre Umbdenstock is a French artist who was born in 1950. There have been Several articles about Jean Pierre Umbdenstock, including ‘Discover in Strasbourg a New Face of Contemporary Art Using Glass as a Medium’ written for ArtDaily in 2009. He passed away in 2011.

Jeff Ballard (b. 1977, Illinois, USA) Jeff is a professional glass artist with twenty plus years experience. He has taught, lectured, exhibited and had residencies both nationally and internationally throughout Europe and Australia and has been featured in several publications including New Glass Review and American Craft.  In 2012 Jeff received the US Arts Envoy…

Jelveh moved to the US during the Iranian revolution in 1978. Her artwork is infused with a unique blend of colors, textures & themes from both Persian & American cultures. Her art form of choice has progressed from collage work to quilting, mosaics, clay & stained glass, each of which reflected her funky yet sophisticated…

Jen Blazina resides and has a studio in Philadelphia where she is a working artist exhibiting with solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Blazina has been awarded numerous residencies including: the Corning Artist in Residency at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; GAPP Residency at Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo,…

Jennifer Umphress’ work often draws inspiration from her environment. Born and raised in California, she began working with glass in 2000 while living in Hawaii. Umphress now lives and works in Kingston, Washington, where the Pacific Ocean continues to influence her work. “Although my inspiration comes from the ocean, I am most intrigued by capturing…

Jing Li, Pekin’deki Tsinghua Üniversitesi Sanat ve Tasarım Akademisi’nde Doçent. 2008 yılında Çin Merkez Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi’nden lisans derecesini aldı ve 2012’de Southern Illinois Üniversitesi’nden Carbondale’den Cam Sanatı Yüksek Lisansını tamamladı. Çin’de teknik açıdan en başarılı cam üreticilerinden biri olarak kabul edildi, incelendi, yeniden yorumlandı.Çağdaş cam kapsamında kendine özgü hikayelerini oluşturmak için geleneksel Venedik cam…

Jiri Harcuba was born in Harrachov, in what is now the Czech Republic, where he apprenticed in the region’s renowned engraving studios, developing his hand at portrait engraving and medallions. In addition to founding the Dominik Biman School, a traveling glass studio dedicated to teaching traditional glass techniques, Harcuba has taught around the world at…

Jiří Pačinek born in Litomerice on 1972. He studied at Glass apprentice centre in Novy Bor from 1987 till 1990 in the section of glass blowing and hand shaping. He started his career of glass blower in Czech famous Chribská glass works focusing mainly on free-hand shaped glass and then found  Petr Novotny as unique spring of…

Jiri Suhájek was born in Pardubice in 1943. Having finished the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenicky Senov, he started to work in the Moser glassworks in Karlovy Vary in 1962. In 1964 he continued his studies in the studio of Professor Stanislav Libensky at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, later at the…

John Drury is a New York City-based artist, writer and teacher, living in Brooklyn with his wife and two young children. John holds an MFA degree from the Ohio State University (1985) and has been a recipient of the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for the Visual Arts (1997). John has personal works, in glass,…

The surprising artworks, sharp intellect, and charismatic personality of John Moran have made him well-known in various countries. Recently, he settled in the historic city of Ghent, Belgium. After completing his undergraduate studies at Tyle Art School in 2006, he worked in the Philadelphia area, where he explored and expanded his research and creative processes….