Glass Feature

Ryan Rosburg What makes a good burger? “I like the classic — American cheese, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, mustard, ketchup, and mayo,” says Ryan Rosburg. “It’s perfect and delicious.” As a glass blower, Rosburg has turned his passion for food, particularly the all-American hamburger, into functional works of art. “I’ve always been a good cook. I’ve…

Dan Longden In flameworking, everything old is new again, and there are no techniques much older than linework. Whether wig wag, chip stack, or incalmo (where two glass sections are joined together to create a defined line) artisans, like Dan Longden are honoring the beauty and history of these colorful pipe making processes and continuing to bring…

Previous Next Casey Ferran makes some trippy glass art. His niche is magic mushrooms, a perfect connection to the experimental, consciousness-expanding nature of the counterculture community.     “What originally interested me in psychedelics was music by The Doors, which got their name from the William Blake book, “The Mariage of Heavan and Hell,” where he…

Gina “Boots” Gaffner Lampworker Gina Gaffner loves to garden, and glass collectors are enjoying the fruits and vegetables of her labor. “I’m inspired by bright colors, and fruits and vegetables are vibrant and fresh, and they make you feel really good,” says Gaffner, better known as “Boots” to her 25,000 Instagram followers. “It’s amazing how…

Blossom Glass Previous Next instagram.com/blossom_glass It’s only fitting that an artist named Blossom would create functional glass pieces embellished with flowers. “A lot of times, art isn’t necessarily feminine or masculine, it is just a cool shape. The nature theme is awesome, and I definitely try to make my pieces as pretty as possible. A lot of people buy my work to have some…

Dan Foster Some artists draw inspiration from pop culture, others are captivated by sea life and the mysteries of the deep. Dan Foster finds inspiration in trees. But not just any tree. As a glass blower, Foster creates stunning smoking accessories that mimic the papery white barked birch. “It’s the coolest and most beautiful tree around here,”…

Amorphous Symphony Glass Who hasn’t dreamed of seeing a dinosaur? Unfortunately, dinosaurs vanished from the planet some 65 million years ago, and if you’ve watched any of the Jurassic Park movies, you know that the only way to de-extinct a stegosaurus, brachiosaurus or any other kind of aurous is engineering one from a sample of…

Dellene Peralta It’s no secret – women love shoes. Dellene Peralta has a passion for footwear, but her stylish stilettos are made of glass and designed to be smoked out of and look sexy doing it. “My sister was a vintage clothing fanatic and had a huge collection of high heeled shoes. Most of them fit my tiny feet and I…

Previous Next       With all the fantastic glass pieces being created these days, there’s ostensibly no going backwards with the craft. But where Hugh Salkind in concerned, everything old school is new again. His signature pieces are almost exclusively in the shape of a classic chillum, sidecar steamroller or hammer, fumed with gold or silver, oftentimes integrated with his “skulltech”…

Seth W.P. Nicols has a story to tell. The year is 2847 A.D. and a swarm of nanobots designed to bond with humans has taken over, and inside an area of the country near Denver, referred to as The Zone, turned people into horrific, mutated creatures. It is a dystopian future in which a group of female warriors, part human, part machine, with…