Author: Lauren Bayer

Previous Next Tell us about yourself. Helen Slater Stokes gained an M.A. from the Royal College of Art in 1996. Having set up her practice in 1999, exhibiting both nationally and internationally, she went back to the Royal College of Art in 2013 and completed a PhD by practice in 2020. Helen lectures and has presented research papers at numerous conferences, most recently the Glass Art Society (GAS) Conference 2019, in Florida. Her work has been selected to be shown at the British Glass Biennale 2017 and 2019, and is held in both public and private collections. Helen uses the medical science of optical perception in conjunction with historic and contemporary illusionary image techniques. This work discusses our notion of ‘Space and Place’ and challenges our spatial perception. Pieces adopt traditional observational Read More

Previous Next Tell us about yourself. I have a long background within sculpture but started with glace in 2004 and has then worked with kiln casting, slumping lost wax, and pate de verre in my own Stockholm-based studio (Sweden). I am a Read More

Previous Next GAS STAFF & BOARD EDITION Kristen Wagstrom FergusonMembership & Development Manager, GASMember Since 2018 What is your dream project? I’ve worked and volunteered for a number of nonprofits, mostly in the realm of either arts or human services. To be Read More

  Nodule 8   Crystal Bowl   Tourmaline Sculpture Cluster   HyperFocal: 0   Tourmaline Fine Art   Jeremy Sinkus Previous Next Tell us about yourself. A former mineral collector and digger that put down his chisel and picked up a torch. Read More

Wyoming Sway Sky and Sea Sketch Jessi Moore Cloud Containers Previous Next Tell us about yourself. My name is Jessi Moore and I am originally from Seattle Washington. I am currently based in Brooklyn, New York where I work as a freelance Read More

          Previous Next GAS STAFF & BOARD EDITION Demetra Theofanous Professional Artist and Educator Board Member, Glass Art Society Flameworking | Pate de Verre Member Since 2009 Tell us about yourself. I am a Greek American living in Read More

        Previous Next GAS STAFF & BOARD EDITION Caitlin Vitalo Education Coordinator, Hunterdon Art Museum Glassblowing | Kiln Cast Glass Member Since 2007 Tell us about yourself. I grew up in central Massachusetts and that’s also where I found Read More

Portrait of the Artist Spent Vestige Previous Next GAS STAFF & BOARD EDITION Debra RuzinskyDirector, Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, TNBoard Member, Glass Art SocietyLost Wax Casting | Warm Glass | Mixed MediaMember Since 2010 Tell us about yourself. Debra Ruzinsky Read More

    Longfellow Bridge       Plate Tectonic 12 Previous Next Tell us about yourself. Not flat, not round, my work might be called glass relief. I’m happy in the rich, associative world of recycled glass and other found objects. I Read More

Previous Next Tell us about yourself. Whilst studying Geology at the University of Edinburgh, I became fascinated by the mineralogy and the reactions between various elements, metals and compounds. This led me towards a passion for the alchemy of glass. Capturing the Read More

    Previous Next GAS STAFF & BOARD EDITION Nadania Idriss Founder & Director of Berlin Glas e.V. Board of Directors Vice President, Glass Art Society Member Since 2011 Tell us about yourself. I’m from California but have been living and working Read More

Previous Next Tell us about yourself. Hey guys, my name is John Moran, or as still many people refer to me: Sleepy. I am originally from Philadelphia, but am currently living in Ghent, Belgium where I started a public studio: Gent Glas Read More

  Perched   Perched   Perched   Perched | Zwischenlandung Previous Next What draws you to the material you work with? My initial attraction to glass as a material is due to it physical qualities: being translucent, the optical effects, the depth Read More

Bamboo Collection Culture Partage Dunes Collection On the Rock Collection Previous Next What draws you to the material you work with? I did not choose the method of glass blowing. This is this process and this way of working that came naturally Read More

Oasis (2018) – blown and cut glass, steel Vase Drinkware Oak Grain Drinkware Previous Next Tell us about yourself. I first discovered glass while enrolled at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Not originally an art student, I soon changed majors, and thus changed my life. Glass took Read More

Everyday Moon, Hyun Kyung Detail Yellow or White You Believed in Me Previous Next Tell us about yourself. My name is Abegael Uffelman and I am originally from Olney, Maryland. I began working with glass at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Read More

  Flight Gesture. Kiln-formed glass. Image by Alex Hall   Embodiment. Kiln-formed glass. Image by Lisa Naas   Recording the Sounds of Glassmaking Process for Makers Marks project. Image by David Faleris   Detail of Sounding Glass in Exhibition. Blown glass, copper, Read More