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| February Featured Artist |
May Featured Artist |
Trish Riley
Alamo, California |
Cynthia Forsyth
Arcata, California |
| Trish is a talented torchwork artist who specializes in heart-shaped beads. |
| Cynthia creates beautiful, one of a kind mosaics incorporating millefiori, glitter tile, tapestry glass and more. |
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Rosetree Glass
New Orleans, Louisiana |
Because Designs
Berkeley, California |
| Rosetree creates completely unique pieces innovated by owner Mark Rosenbaum, we carry a number of styles of beautiful goblets. |
| The teacher of our specialty stained glass classes, Susanna Conaway is also a talented artist who creates beautiful and unusual pieces under the name of Because Designs. |
Lundberg Studios
Davenport, California |
Fire & Light
Arcata, California |
| One of the most collectable artists in glass today, the quality of these pieces is incomparable. |
| Lovely glass tableware made from recycled bottles. Since 1999 John and Natali McClurg along with a team of 20 have been creating these handcrafted pieces. |
Joan McLean
Laguna, California |
Robert Held Studio
Vancouver, British Columbia |
| The founder of the Stained Glass Garden, Joan has gone on to create many beautiful mosaics featured around the store. |
| An amazingly refined glass artist, Robert Held has become one of the giants of the business with his high-quality pieces made in his studio in Vancouver. |
Slowburn Glass
Oakland, California |
Esteban Prieto
St Louis, Missouri |
| Bryan Goldenberg creates beautiful pieces in a number of styles, including pumpkins, bowls, vases, and even lighting. |
| If you're looking for tumblers, your search is over. Esteban Prieto creates the most beautiful ones around, many people have been collecting his work for years and have full dining sets of his glasses. |
Mad Frog Studios
Grass Valley, California |
Elaine Hyde
Santa Barbara, California |
| Started by Sybil Shane when she quit her former job in taxes and began creating art, this studio has grown to include two other artists, Tara Sullivan and Miyu Tamamura. Together they paint on silk and then make prints from these paintings, and the product is truly beautiful! |
| Trained in glass at the Pilchuck Glass Center when it was only in its second year of operation, Elaine Hyde's work is truly stunning and unique. She has carved out a niche for herself in a male-dominated field and is now internationally renowned. |
Peggy Karr Glass
Randolph, New Jersey |
Fire & Light Studios
Arcata, California |
| The pieces created by this company are of the highest quality: all of the sifting and design work is done by hand. The unique idea behind these pieces was thought up by Peggy Karr in 1987 and has only grown since, becoming hugely popular. |
| Lovely glass tableware made from recycled bottles. Since 1999 John and Natali McClurg along with a team of 20 have been creating these handcrafted pieces. |
Marco Polo Designs
Portland, Oregon |
The Glass Forge
Grants Pass, Oregon |
| Jane Barthelemy went to Italy to be an Opera singer, but while there she learned how to create glass beads in the Italian style. When she retired from Opera and traveled back to the United States, she started a studio to continue her glass production. Since then, Marco Polo has made some of the loveliest glass jewelry on the market today. |
| Started in 1998 by three glassblowing experts at their prime, Maurice "Butch" Kreuzer, Nathan Sheafor, and Lee Wassink, the Glass Forge has since then gone on to become an established glass studio, creating amazing glass pieces, both beautiful and functional. |
Fred Imhoff
Portland, Oregon |
Ron Hinkle
Buckhannon, West Virginia |
| Working with glass since 1998, the artist now creates his pieces in his own studio in Portland, Oregon. He values clean form and minimalism in his work, and so do his many customers. |
| This artist's story is truly amazing. Captivated by glass since he was a child, Ron Hinkle learned glass blowing at a major factory, but created his own pieces on the side. Soon his pieces became so popular he quit the factory to open his own studio, building it from the ground up with no capital, growing to become an extremely sucessful artist. |
Rick Hunter
Upland, California |
Glass Eye
Seattle, Washington |
| Rick Hunter got his MFA in glass in 1986 and since then has been making gorgeous glass objects one at a time, each hand-blown in his Upland, California studio. |
| This Seattle, Washington studio creates over 60 new designs every 6 months, meaning the options are limitless and collectors can't get enough of these gorgeous glass objects!
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Chris Paulson
Eugene, Oregon |
Goose Rocks
Arundel, Maine |
| Each of these vibrant pieces is hand fused by the artist, combining colors and designs in unique and beautiful ways. His pieces are suitable for eating, although many may find them far too pretty to use! |
| Each windchime from this studio is cut, drilled and assembled by hand. The designs are all inspired by the landscape of Arundel, Maine, where they are created. |
Motawi Tileworks
Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Hello Moon
Portland, Oregon |
| Nawal Motawi started this workshop in 1992 along with her brother, Karim, and learned about tiles from many sources, leading them to create the distinctive tiles they make today. Motawi has expanded to include more people, but their values and aesthetic has stayed the same. |
| Amy and Rick Bain create these ceramic pieces in their home with their two children. They enjoy sharing their passion with the world as well as their kids, and do so by creating these simple but lovely jars. |