Gamze Araz Eskinazi

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 Furnace. She met Yasemin Sayinsoy in one of those classes and they founded Camekan Cam İsler together. She continued to join classes from many well known glass artists and developed her own style. She joined many exhibitions. In 2008, Gamze and Yasemin taught how to blow glasses in the Glass Furnace studio. This was the first time that Turkish glass artists had ever taught glass blowing. In 2010, she contributed in opening a hotshop glass studio in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and started to teach glass blowing there. She took her master degree with the thesis on glass blowing.

Gamze Araz still produces functional and artistic designs with her brand Camekan Glass Art and Design. She’s still been teaching glass blowing to people who are keen to meet glass and get fascinated by it.