Glass
Vladimira Klumpar
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…
Read MoreKaren LaMonte
Karen LaMonte was born in 1967 in New York City. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 and continued her studies with a Fulbright Grant which sent her to the Academy of Art, Architecture, and Design in Prague, The Czech Republic. She had her first solo show in Chicago,…
Read MoreDante Marioni
Dante Marioni was born in 1964 in Mill Valley, California. In the mid 1980s, he studied glassblowing at the Pilchuck School in Stanwood, Washington where he met his mentor, Maestro Lino Tagliapietra. His work is strongly influenced in its form by the Venetian tradition, yet has a distinctive style all its own. By the late…
Read MoreNancy Mee
Nancy Mee is a sculptor and glass artist based in Seattle, WA. Mee was born in 1951 and attended the University of Washington where she earned a BFA in Printmaking in 1974. An artist in residency at the Pilchuck School in 1984 had a profound impact on her work when she began experimenting with fusing…
Read MoreMatyas Pavlik
Born 1984 in the Czech Republic, Matyas Pavlik lived for much of his life in the United States, Mexico and Portugal before returning to his home country. Like his mother, the well-known glass artist Vladimíra Klumpar, he was artistically inspired by the various cultures. His impressive glass sculptures alternate between highlighting geometric and organic shapes.
Read MoreStephen Powell
Stephen Powell (1934-2021). He received his MFA from Louisiana State University in 1983 and taught in several schools in the U.S. and Australia. Powell is best known for his very large-scale, dramatic multi-colored vessels. His pieces are so large that they take a team of several glass artists to execute. In contrast to the large…
Read MoreHenry Richardson
Henry Richardson resides in New York City. His path as a sculptor began at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and has continued in a circuitous manner in the decades since. He has worked in many mediums including concrete, steel, stone and wood, but says that the mastery of chiseling glass has allowed him to explore more…
Read MoreMarlene Rose
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…
Read MoreLino Tagliapietra
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…
Read MoreFrantisek Vizner
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…
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