Glass

Marlene Rose was born in New York in 1967 with art all around her. Her mother was a painter and her father a sculptor of found objects. Rose was educated at Promfret School in Connecticut; Tulane University in Louisiana; and California College of the Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. Rose’s sculptures in glass are…

Lino Tagliapietra was born in 1934 in Murano, Italy. Tagliapietra was described by Dale Chihuly as “perhaps the world’s greatest living glassblower.” As a boy he was apprenticed to master glassmaker Archimede Seguso. A decade later Tagliapietra had himself achieved the rank of maestro. For decades he executed glass designs with technical virtuosity. An award…

Frantisek Vizner was born in 1936 in Czechoslovakia. He is well known and highly respected worldwide for his incredible innovative and powerful glass creations. Vizner was trained at the famous glassmaking schools in Novy Bor and Zelezny Brod. He graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague in 1962. He dedicated his career to…

David Willis grew up outside of New York City. He earned a BA in Interdepartmental Field Studies from UC Berkeley with an emphasis on social change and a Minor in conservation and resources studies. He began working with glass in 1994. Drawing heavily from nature and taking a cross-disciplinary approach to the material, his work…

Udo Zembok was born in 1951 in Braunschweig, Germany and studied at Alanus University for Art and Social Sciences in Germany. While studying graphic art and painting, Zembok discovered what he terms “transparent colour, the colour of watercolours that gives the illusion of being light”. In the mid-1970’s, he experimented with kiln-formed glass in The…