Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1960. While attending Ohio University, she took an elective in glass blowing. After graduating from Ohio University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Karen was hired to work as a glass blowing assistant. Karen has been fortunate enough to travel extensively, using the opportunities to…

A testimony to her love of nature, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen’s work is the result of countless hours of observation and decades being immersed in the in the glass-working experience. Jasen Johnsen, alongside his substantial glass sculpting skills, is also accomplished in metalworking and tool making. The couple work in their Hot Glass studio in Bow, Wash….

Kit Paulson received her MFA from Southern Illinois University and her BFA from Alfred University. She has taught across the United States and internationally at schools including Penland School of Craft; Pilchuck Glass School; Corning Museum of Glass; Bildwerk Frauenau, Germany; National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland; and Canberra Glassworks in Canberra, Australia….

Koichi Matsufuji is an artist from Japan. He received his M.F.A. in Glass and Sculpture from Illinois State University, Department of Art in the United States in 2001 and his B.A. from Aichi University of Education, Department of Artand Crafts in Japan in 1995. He was a fellow at the Creative Glass Center of America…

Korbinian Stöckle was born in 1967 in Finning, Germany. He graduated from the vocational high school in Zwiesel, Germany.In 1994 Stöckle went to Studium an der Staatlichen Akademie für bildende Künste, Stuttgart, were he graduated from the Glass & sculpture department in 1998. While his education was going on, Stöckle also worked as an instructor…

Lino Tagliapietra, is an influential Italian glass artist and master glassmaker who is recognized for his skills and talents throughout the world. Born on the island of Murano, neighbouring Venice in the Venetian Lagoon, the artist started from a very young age working at the island’s glass furnaces and factories. Lino was soon regarded as…

Lucartha Kohler’s work has been shown for more than 30 years at a variety of venues, including the Durham Storefront Project, Frank Gallery, and the Lawrence Gallery. Kohler studied at Carnegie Mellon Institute, Moore College of Art, and Penland School of Crafts. She has spent time at the University of the Arts and The Studio…

Bubacco, born on Murano in 1957, began playing with glass as a boy, making small animals, beads, and the usual lampworker’s tablet. Lucio Bubacco’s works combine the anatomic perfection of Greek sculpture with the Byzantine gothic architecture of his native Venice. He is known for his unique human and fantasy figures, which are entirely hand-formed…

M. Fatih Duruerk was born in 1979 in Ankara. He completed his undergraduate studies in the Industrial Engineering Department at Çankaya University. He successfully completed a minor program in the Interior Architecture Department at the same university to gain a design vision. Having been interested in experiments and glass since childhood, Duruerk finally had the…

Michaela Maria Möller is a trained glazier with more than 25 years experience in working with glass. She studied craft design at the Akademie für Gestaltende Handwerke in Aachen,Germany. Her first contacts with making glass-beads was 15 years ago first as a hobby. Since then she has been doing more and more beadwork, found new…

Marie-Odile Savigny (1960) graduated from the National Superior School of Applied Art in Paris in 1981. A year later she was employed by the famous Crystal Factory Daum in Nancy. For seven years she worked as a designer and mouldmaker and collaborated with designers like Philippe Starck. After her time at Daum she founded her…

Mark Ditzler is a Seattle glass artist specializing in kiln fired glass.  Trained as an Industrial Designer and ceramic artist, he hasbeen making glass for over 25 years.  Mark has studied at the Pilchuck Glass School, and has been an instructor at numerous studios including the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Tacoma Museum of Glass, PittsburghGlass…

Paul DeSomma is an American visual artist who was born in 1959. Paul DeSomma has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the William Traver Gallery. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including ‘Centaur’ sold at Bonhams San Francisco ‘SoMa Estate Auction: Fine art’ in 2010.

Born in 1980, in Liberec, in the Czech Republic, Martin Janecky began working in a glass factory at the age of 13. He attended a four year secondary school concentrating on the creation of glass art in Novy Bor. By the age of 21, Janecky had been blowing and sculpting with glass for 8 years…

Mary Chuduk was born in Chicago, Illinois and now lives and works as a studio artist in Tempe, Arizona. She has extensively exhibited her metalwork nationally and internationally, including Korea, Switzerland, Japan, India, Russia, Spain and Canada. Enameling is the primary medium she uses in making jewelry, vessels and sculptural objects from copper and silver….

Matthew Urban attended the Philadelphia College of Art and Design, where he studied industrial design and glass. After completing his BFA, he worked at the Tyler School of Art, and the Philadelphia College of Art and Design. Urban has been a production assistant for Michael Schunke at Nine Iron Studio, and Tom Farbanish at Certified…

Michael (Estes) Taylor was born in 1944, in Lewisburg, Tennessee and began to draw at age 12. At age 18 he entered Middle Tennessee University in Murfreesboro where he was awarded a B.S. in art education. He entered graduate school in 1967 at East Tennessee University in Johnson City, where he received a summer scholarship…

Michael  J. Schunke is a contemporary American glass artist and designer. His work is dedicated to the pursuit of form and the practice of making. With a strong sense of design focused on the relationship between line and volume, Schunke creates expressive silhouettes and containers of personal meaning. Since his early introduction to glassmaking, Schunke has dedicated…

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After spending 11 years in Japan where he was head of Aichi University’s Glass Department, artist Michael Rogers returned to the United States where he is now a Professor in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Michael’s work can be found in the permanent collections of…

Mitchell Gaudet, was born & raised in New Orleans. After Katrina, he spent months repairing his studio and helping family & friends. When he returned to work, he created pieces about the line that stained his city, where the water settled for weeks. Mitchell Gaudet has sculpted glass for over 25 years. In 1991 he…

Prof. Mustafa Ağatekin was born in Edremit, 1967, he graduated from Anadolu University Applied Fine Arts Academy Ceramics Department in 1991. He took his master degree and proficiency in the same institution. He worked as an artist and academician until 2002. Same year, he discovered glass as a new material for his artwork. When Anadolu University…

With the meticulous method, precision and patience of a scientist Kavvas explores and pursues the impossibilities of glass in order to find the possibilities.  His sculptures are not only a revelation of his extensive knowledge of chemistry but also the culmination of his life’s work as a chemist, inventor, entrepreneur, businessman, and designer. Though he…

Ondrej Novotny is the youngest son of internationally renowned glassmaker Petr Novotny, who was one of the pioneers of glass studio­movement in the eighties. Ondrej started glassmaking at the age of fourteen, he eventually decided to study glass professionally at the Novy Bor glass school and started working as an apprentice in the glass trade. After…

Pamina Traylor is a lecturer at the California College of Arts and Crafts. She received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, began studying glass at San Francisco State University, and received her M.F.A. in glass sculpture from Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1995, she was awarded a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America…

Patty Gray has been involved in the hot glass arts since the earliest days of the studio glass movement. Her artistic focus has been on fused and cast glass artwork of all scales, including architectural installations in major hotels and public buildings. She has also built a prodigious record as an instructor in the kiln…

Paul Marioni, one of the founding members of the American Studio Glass movement, is based in Seattle and creates sculptures and vessels that incorporate humor, images of taboo sexuality, genre figures, tribal masks, photographs, and visual puns. Paul moved to California in the mid 1960s, where he was attracted to the beat poets of San Francisco…

Peter Bowles received an MA from Curtin University in Australia and has lectured and taught at numerous institutions throughout the world including the Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada, The China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China and BGC Glass Studio, Bangkok, Thailand.He is a quiet maker and a passionate teacher whose work spans studio…

Petr Novotny was born in The Czech Republic in 1952. He studied glass manufacturing and glass technology at Apprentice Glass Centre in Novy Bor and later on he continued to study at Secondary Industrial School in Novy Bor. He also taught blowing and hand-forming glass at Apprentice Glass Centrein Novy Bor. In 1983 he was…