Glass

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…

Mary Ann “Toots” Zynsky was born in 1951 in Massachusetts. She is a glass worker who began her career originally as a ceramics artist. In 1973, she received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where so many artists converted to glass due to the influence of Dale Chihuly. In 1971, Chihuly brought…