Vladimira Klumpar was born in 1954 in the Czech Republic. From 1969 to 1973 she attended the Zelezny Brod Specialized High School for Glassmaking in the Czech Republic and afterwards spent seven years at the Academy of Applied Art in Prague, studying under Stanislav Libenský. Her cast glass sculpture uses organic botanical elements as its formal vocabulary. She has exhibited at galleries across Europe and the Americas, including an important 2003 solo show spanning her work from 1986 to 1998 at the Chappel Gallery in New York. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; the Wustum Museum of Art in Racine, Wisconsin; the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina; the American Arts and Craft England Artist Foundation; the Massachusetts Artist Foundation; the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Museum in New York; and by museums in the Czech Republic. She has won awards from the New England Artist Foundation, the Massachusetts Artist Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.