Previous Next If you’re trekking through the woods near Sylvania Georgia, you might stumble across Sean Hegeman and Sylvie Zazou, a couple of old school glass blowers. doing what amounts to a live demo right under their carport, which for the moment doubles as a make-do studio. Sean and Sylvie have been together since their…
Joel Corley is making waves (literally) in the world of functional glass art. Corley’s Black Sand Glass studio is named for the black volcanic sand beach near his home in Kalapana, on the Big Island of Hawaii. His love for the ocean and surfing is reflected in his signature glass Party Wave rigs. …
Sean “Glasshole” Witschger. “A pipe is a pipe is a pipe until you do something different with it,” remarks glass artist Sean Witschger. Truer words were never spoken. Especially in an era of pipemaking when anyone learn to make a wig wag or sleeved inside out glass spoon by watching a YouTube video, the authentic artistic…
With 20 years behind him as glass blower, Dylan Kelley had tried a bunch of different techniques from inside-out and wig wag to reticello. One day, he was brainstorming with a couple of buddies about sandblasting when a spark of inventiveness popped in his head that he could create function through imagery eliminating the need for…
Jeremy Sinkus is a real rock star among glass artists, known for his amazing geological designs, including crystals and gemstones, all realistically recreated in glass. By layering transparent magentas, blues, emerald greens and clear with the torch and applying a technique he discovered to add texture, Jeremy cold works the glass to create the “tooling’…
Most people start blowing glass after meeting vendors at music festival or watching their friends melting glass at the torch. Heather Durbin began her glass blowing career for a more practical reason — she needed diaper money. It wasn’t long after Durbin began making and selling glass beads and compression flower pendants, that the medical…
soulshine-arts.com When Willo Sernovitz was 12 years old, he was in his backyard shooting off fireworks and one of the bottle rockets errantly flew into an open window and burned his family’s house to the ground. A tragic accident to be sure, but from that point on, fire has had a significant impact on Willo’s…
Regis Turocy always knew he would be an artist. In college, he earned serval art degrees, and moving forward, he worked as a graphic designer and metal sculptor. He’s even a certified art teacher. But it wasn’t until he began blowing glass that he found his true calling. “I’ve worked in a lot of…
Before getting into glass blowing, Clark was going for a mechanical engineering degree and had a job assembling and tuning bicycles. He never thought much about glass being anything other than something to smoke out of until a friend opened a head shop and introduced him to the artistic side of the craft. “I…
aaronuglass.com instagram.com/aaronuglass Aaron Uretsky (“Aaron U” for short) is into koala bears. He’s been drawing them since forever, and they naturally found their way into his glass art. At his home studio in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Aaron turns the cute, cuddly creatures into full-on party animals. There are koala bongs with their own miniature…
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