World-renowned artists visited the Glass Furnace since 2002.

In alphabetical order

Petr Stacho

Petr Stacho (born in 1965 in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic) earned his reputation as an excellent glass artist in the early 1990s while still a student at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where he studied at the studio of the world-famous Czech artist and teacher Vladimir Kopecky. Stacho came to…

Pilar Aldana Mendez

Spanish and Colombian sculptor, has been established in Barcelona, Spain, since 1985. Her forms of expression are the small format and the large-scale and site specific sculptures, as well as installations. She works especially with glass, stone, iron and wood. She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Europe. Solo exhibitions at the…

Pino Cherchi

Pino Cherchi is a glass and metal sculptor. He’s been involved in glass art as an artist and teacher for over 26 years. His work has been displayed in galleries in the United States and Europe for 16 years. In addition to being commissioned by private collectors, he have also done public projects. Those projects…

Raven Skyriver

Born in 1982 Raven Skyriver started blowing glass in high school at the age of 16. Raven’s mentor Lark Dalton taught him how to build glass blowing equipment, and trained him in venetian technique. Raven joined the William Morris team, by Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen’s request in 2003. He worked on the team until Bill’s retirement, in…

Rene Culler

Rene Culler was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1956. She has worked as a professional artist since 1973, but returned to school as an older non-traditional artist to achieve her degrees in Art/Glass; a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1992 and an MFA, summa cum laude from Kent State University in 1994….

Retief Van Wyk

Van Wyk was a foundation member of the CONSOL Glass House (1996) at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Tshwane University of Technology. He acted as subject leader for Glass and Ceramics till his retirement in 2018. Van Wyk now focuses on the production of architectural and domestic glass, produced at their GFA Glass…

Richard Jolley

Richard Jolley was born in Wichita, Kansas 1952 then moved in his youth to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In 1970, the artist began his studies at Tusculum College in Greenville, Tennessee, studying glass under Michael Taylor. Building and maintaining a glass studio in Knoxville since 1975, Richard Jolley has participated in over 65 solo museum and…

Rob Stern

Over his 25 year career in glass, Rob Stern studied extensively and has worked with the most accomplished glass artists and masters throughout the world. His work has been installed, exhibited, and collected in Europe, Asia and United States. He was a professor at the University of Miami Glass program and since 2004 Rob has…

Robert Carlson

Robert Carlson was introduced to glass by his good friend Tom Philabaum in 1980. He has been working on Bainbridge Island, Washington since 1987, where he lives with his wife Mary Fontaine-Carlson. A teacher of many workshops, he has taught at the Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Bild-Werk…

Rozita Kasuto

Rozita Kasuto, graduated from fine arts academy interior design department in 1987, worked as an interior designer until 2013. Attended several workshops at The Glass Furnace Istanbul for metal shaping and enameling for four years. Currently proceeds with metal and enamel work in her own studio.   Artist and her work

Sallie Portnoy

Sallie Portnoy is a prolific interdisciplinary artist, working in glass, clay, bronze, cement, polyurethane, mosaic, and steel. Her background in ceramics informs her work in glass, which has earned recognition and representation internationally in private and permanent collections. Portnoy has taught classes in Australia, Canada, Turkey, and in the United States at The Studio of…

Saman Kalantari

Saman Kalantari was born in Shiraz in Iran . After graduatıng from  Azad university in 1994. Saman started working as a ceramic artist since 1992 and has participated in several exhibitions both single and group shows.He left his country in 2004 and since then has been living in Italy. And there he discovered a new medium:…

Scott Benefield

Scott Benefield has been involved in the field of studio glass for over 25 years as a glassblower, writer and workshop leader. He studied at The College of William and Mary, Louisiana State University and holds a master’s degree in glass from Ohio State University. He spent a year in Sweden studying glass design with…

Scott Chaseling

After having studied in Australia, Scott Chaseling travelled widely developing new works in new locations through teaching, residencies and workshops. Recent solo exhibitions have been in the European Museum of Contemporary Glass, Germany, the Musee du Verre, France and Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australia. In 2006 he was invited as the Levehulme Research Fellow to…

Seyit Taha BAYDAR

Seyit Taha BAYDAR 1987 Was born in Eskisehir.  2005 Graduated from Yunus Emre Anadolu Vocational High School, Otomation Dep. 2005-2009 Graduated from Anadolu Univercity, Fine Arts Glass Dep. Completed his internship at Pasabahce Denizli Glass Factory and Yakamoz Glass. 2009-2011 He worked at Yakamoz Glass as a designer and worked in a large scale. 2009 Started his master degree at…

Sibelle Yüksek

Sibelle Yüksek Education: Virginia Commonwealth University – Richmond, VA ( 2007 – 2013 ) Craft/Material Studies focus in Glasswork – BFA Communication Arts – BFA Work: Freelance Glassblower ( 2020 – present ) Neptune Glassworks – Los Angeles, CA ( 2015 – 2020 ) Full Time Glassblower, Studio Tech, Artist Assistant www.neptuneglassworks.com Ghostprint Gallery –…

Silvia Levenson

Silvia Levenson was born in Argentina in 1957. Lives and works in Italy since 1980 ” Revealing “, making visible what is normally hidden or people can not see is an integral part of her work, and she uses glass to embody this metaphor. Through her artwork she explores the relationships in families and in…

Simone Crestani

Born in 1984 in Marostica, in the province of Vicenza (Italy), he started working glass in 2000 first as a student and co-worker in Massimo Lunardon’s glass blowing studio. After an apprenticeship that lasted ten years, he opened his own studio, where he continues to work, dedicated to research and innovation. He is regularly invited…

Stephen Dee Edwards

Stephen Dee Edwards graduated from Illinois State University with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1980. In 1982 he established his first private glass studio in Micaville, North Carolina. It was close to the Penland School of Crafts where he worked as a guest artist. In 1988 he began teaching at Alfred University in…

Sunny Wang

Sunny Wang was awarded a MVA at Australian National University in 2001, and received her PhD, Doctor of Philosophy (Visual Arts–Glass) at the University of South Australia in 2012. She taught at the National Taiwan University of Arts. She has also been invited to teach the glass intensive workshops at the National Taipei University of…

Susan Gott

Susan Gott has worked in glass for 30 years and specializes in cast glass to create one-of-a-kind sculptures. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in glass from Kent State University; Bachelor’s from Radford University and studied glass at Pilchuck, Haystack, Arrowmont, Penland Schools. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including…

Tatyana Boyarinova

Tatyana Boyarinova is a Russian lampworker who works with glass for 7 years. She lives in Moscow where she works and teaches. She graduated Moscow State University of Print as a graphic designer (book illustration). She’s interested to sculpt with any material. But glass fits totally perfect. She tries to get nature forms, making glass pieces…

Therman Statom

Therman Statom was born in 1953 in Florida. Statom began his study of glass as an art medium at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, California in 1971.  He was awarded the BFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design in 1974 and the MFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute of Art and Design in…

Thor Bueno

Thor Bueno is half Icelandic and half Spanish/Basque. He grew up surfing in southern California and started blowing glass in 1979. Studying as a painter with Italo Scanga, he received a BFA from University of California at San Diego and an MFA in Glass from Alfred University and went on to blow glass in 11…

Tim Shaw

Tim Shaw was born on December 25, 1959 and has three degrees in glassblowing. After attaining his BA (Hons) from North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the UK in 1983, he went on to study at the avant-garde Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam where he continued to develop and experiment creating a unique style of art glass….

Tim Tate and Michael Janis

Tim Tate is co-founder of the Washington Glass School located in Mt. Rainier MD. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, the Mint Museum, the Fuller Museum, the Katzen Art Center of American University, the Milwaukee Art Museum and Vanderbilt University. Michael Janis first began working with…

Tom Galbraith

Tom GALBRAITH was born in California in 1960. He has lived and worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin since 1970. Tom began his sojourn into glassblowing in 1980 when he apprenticed for six years in the neon industry, eventually branching out on his own. He then logically moved into scientific glassblowing in 1995 with a one year…

Tord Johnston

Tord is a professional still life and fine art photographer with over 30 years experience in theindustry.

Ulli Egger

Ulli Egger was born in 1969 in Austria. She is working with glass since 1994 and started making beads in 1998. She attended College of Crafts and Design at the “Glasfachshule Kramsach”, Austria. She participated in various workshops on different techniques such as kilcasting, fusing, stained glass, engraving, glassblowing at Bild-Werk Glass School in Germany,…