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

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,…

There are many different influences in my work.  The materials I choose are a major inspiration for me.  I use precious metals, enamels, and Thurmanite® (a composite material made of layers of paper bonded together with eco-resin, created by James Thurman).  The other source of influence is my culture and heritage.  I was born and…

Ursula Distler is working as a freelance glass artist in her own workshop in Nuremberg since 1989. Since, 1991 she is lecturer for glassdesign in the Bildungszentrum of the city of Nuremberg. Starting with stained glass, Ursula Distler became more and more interested in forming molten glass to achieve new appearances. Various techniques of glass…

Vahide Kaya was born in 1992 in Istanbul. Anadolu Uni. She started at GSF and graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University as a farabi student. While she was a student, she was awarded with scholarship and participated in the workshops of world-renowned artists such as Tim Shaw and Grant Garmezy, After graduating from the…

Graduated from the Rauma Teacher Training School, University of Turku, Rauma, Finland, 1982. Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at the University of Industrial Arts Helsinki (UIAH, presently the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture), Finlandia, 1987 and taught there in the period 1987–2003. Received an M.A. from the Department of Industrial…

Vladimir Klein was born in the year 1950 in Czechoslovakia. He studied in the Academy of Applied Arts in Prag under Prof. Libensky. For 14 years, he was teaching in a secondary glassmaking school in Kamenicky Senov and was the director of this school for 5 years. After being a visiting professor in Toyama Institute…

Wilfried Markus, was born in 1947, in Germany. Became self supporting with kiln worked and lamp worked glass in 1983, after his training and a master craftsman’s diploma in hand working glass. He developed his own distinct voice after many years’ travelling as a student and training with, for example, Peter Novotný and Cappy Tompson…

Wilhelm Vernim was trained as a glass engraver and designer at Zwiesel Glass Skills College in Germany, and continued his training as a Master in Glass Engraving at Zwiesel. He also studied painting with Tom Buechner, and engraving with Jiři Harcuba, and kiln casting with Max Jaquard. He has taught engraving and cold working classes…

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