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Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly (b. September 20, 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, United States) is a Slovak American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.
Chihuly graduated from high school in Tacoma. Supported by his mother, after his brother George's death in a flight...
Date of birth:
- Sep 20, 1941 (age 68 years)
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (Nancy, 8 May 1846 – Nancy, 23 September 1904) was a French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement.
Gallé was the son of a faience and furniture manufacturer and...
Date of birth:
- May 8, 1846
Date of death:
- Sep 23, 1904 (age 58 years)
František Janák
František Janák (born 1951 in Havlíčkův Brod, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech glass artist. He creates glass sculptures and commission works, and also does series production design for different Czech glassworks.
Janák completed his apprenticeship in...
Date of birth:
- 1951 (age 59 years)
Michael Dupille
Michael Dupille (b. Tacoma, Washington December 3, 1955) is a glass artist who works in Seattle, Washington. While he has worked in numerous media, he is probably best known as a pioneer in the technique of fritography, a method of kiln formed...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1955 (age 54 years)
Ginny Ruffner
Ginny Ruffner is a glass artist in Seattle, Washington. She primarily uses the technique of lampworking. Her art has been featured in many museums and galleries. She was profiled on the NPR show Weekend America on 18 March 2006.
William Beilby
William Beilby (1740–1819) was a British glassworker known to have produced eminent enamelled glass during the later half of the 18th century.
Beilby's father William senior was a goldsmith and jeweller in Durham. Beilby, along with his brothers...
Date of birth:
- 1740
Date of death:
- 1819 (age 79 years)
Ivo Lill
Ivo Lill (June 24, 1953 in Tallinn, Estonia) is a notable Estonian glass artist.
Lill is a 1985 graduate of the Tallinn Art Academy and works almost exclusively in the medium of glass sculpting and design. He is a member of the Estonian Artists'...
Date of birth:
- Jun 24, 1953 (age 56 years)
Peter Newsome
Peter Newsome (born February 1943 in London, UK) is a modern day glass sculptor.
Since 1993 Peter Newsome PhD, ARBS has devoted virtually all of his energies to the creation of sculptures in glass, with works exhibited widely in the UK and in New...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1943 (age 66 years)
Judy Jensen
Judy Jensen (born 1953) is an American artist who currently resides in Austin, Texas. She was born in Lamesa, Texas. She does primarily glass work, although she incorporates other mixed media into her glass pieces.
Smithsonian American Art Museum,...
Date of birth:
- 1953 (age 57 years)
Christopher Ries
Christopher Ries (born 1952) is an American glass sculptor. Ries was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up on a farm. He attended Ohio State University, where he earned a BFA in glass and ceramics. He later went on to earn an MFA while serving as an...
Date of birth:
- 1952 (age 58 years)
William Morris
William Morris (born July 25, 1957) is an American glass artist. He was born in Carmel, California, USA. He was educated at California State University, Chico, California and Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington. Early in his career...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1957 (age 52 years)
Jesse Du Bois
Jess DuBois is an American artist. He graduated from the inaugural class of The Art Institute of Colorado in 1957. DuBois then traveled the country to study with several established artists including Ray Vanilla, David Lafel, and Daniel Greene.
As a...
Harvey Littleton
Harvey Littleton (born June 14, 1922) is an American educator and glass artist. Born in Corning, New York, he grew up in the shadow of Corning Glassworks, where his father headed Research and Development during the 1930s. Expected by his father to...
Date of birth:
- Jun 14, 1922 (age 87 years)
Hans Godo Frabel
Hans Godo Frabel (born 1941 in Jena, East Germany) is an East German-born lampwork glass blower, now living and working in the USA.
Hans Godo Frabel is one of the very first lampwork glass artists in the world. He turned the technique of "working at...
Date of birth:
- 1941 (age 69 years)
Mitsugi Ohno
Mitsugi Ohno (大野 貢, June 28, 1926 - October 22, 1999) was a Japanese glassblower who worked at the University of Tokyo (1947 - 1960) and Kansas State University (1961 - 1996). He was well known for blowing a glass Klein bottle and glass models of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1926
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1999 (age 73 years)
Jean-Pierre Canlis
Jean-Pierre Canlis (born 1973) is an American glass artist.
Jean-Pierre Canlis first picked up a glassblowing pipe in 1991 at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawai'i. He later studied glass art at Alfred University's School of Art and Design in New...
Date of birth:
- 1973 (age 37 years)
Marvin Lipofsky
Marvin Lipofsky (born September 1, 1938) is an American glass artist. He was a central figure in the spread of the American studio glass movement, introducing it to California.
Lipofsky was born in Barrington, Illinois, where his family owned a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1938 (age 71 years)
Josiah McElheny
Josiah G. McElheny (born in 1966 in Boston) is a contemporary artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects (see glass art). He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows...
Date of birth:
- 1966 (age 44 years)
John Radecki
John Radecki (also known as Jan Radecki) (1865 - 1955) was a master stained glass artist working in Australia, considered to be the finest such artist of his time.
Radecki was born on 2 August 1865 at Łódź, Poland to Pavel Radecki and his wife,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1865
Date of death:
- 1955 (age 90 years)
Lino Tagliapietra
Lino Tagliapietra (born 1934 in Murano, Italy) is an Italian glass artist.
Tagliapietra was born on the island of Murano in 1934. Murano, an island whose history of glass dates back to 1291, provided Tagliapietra with the perfect educational...
Date of birth:
- 1934 (age 76 years)
Sarah hall studio
Sarah Hall (born December 9, 1951) is a Canadian stained glass artist, notable for her extensive career, and current experimentation in the integration of photovoltaic technology into art glass. She lives in Toronto, Ontario and was born in Hamilton...
Date of birth:
- Dec 9, 1951 (age 58 years)
Cappy Thompson
Cappy Thompson is an American artist who works in the medium of glass. The basis of her reverse glass painting technique is Grisaille, which has been used on stained glass since the Middle Ages. She lives and works in Olympia, Washington and also...
Victor Emanuel Lindstrand
Victor Emanuel Lindstrand, known as Vicke Lindstrand (born 27 November 1904 in Gothenburg, died 7 May 1983 in Småland) was a Swedish glass designer, textile and ceramic designer, and painter. He is considered a pioneer of Swedish glass art.
As a...
Date of birth:
- 1904
Date of death:
- 1983 (age 79 years)
Dante Marioni
Dante Marioni (b. March 3, 1964 in Mill Valley, California, U.S.) is an American glass artist
Dante Marioni grew up among many artistic influences. His father, Paul Marioni, was involved in the American studio glass movement and, as a result, Dante...
Date of birth:
- Mar 3, 1964 (age 45 years)
Dominick Labino
Dominick Labino (1910-1987) born in Fairmount City, Pennsylvania
Internationally-known artist, technologist, inventor, and master craftsman in glass.
Often referred to as the real Father of the Studio Glass Movement. His glass works are in the...
Date of birth:
- 1910
Date of death:
- 1987 (age 77 years)
Alessandro Casson
Alessandro was born in Venice in 1969, the city where he currently lives and works. In 1996 he graduated in Political Science and Economics from Padova University. Later he studied history at Venice University. He also created art and...
Jay Musler
Jay Musler is an American glass artist who was born in Sacramento, California in 1949. From 1968 to 1971, he attended the California College of the Arts (Oakland, California). He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the...
Richard Marquis
Richard Marquis is an American studio glass artist who was born September 17, 1945 in Bumblebee, Arizona. He studied both ceramics and glass at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a BA in 1969 and an MA in 1972. In 1969, he...
Kyohei Fujita
Kyohei Fujita (藤田 喬平, Fujita Kyōhei, (1921–September 18, 2004)) was a Japanese glass artist. He is best known for his glass boxes with complicated surface decorations, and his work was included in the exhibit One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement...
Date of birth:
- 1921
Date of death:
- 2004 (age 83 years)
Michael Glancy
Michael M. Glancy was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1950, and began working with glass in 1970. He received a BFA from the University of Denver in 1973 and a second BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1977. He earned an MFA in...
Raymond Persinger
Artist Raymond Persinger (1959) has created sculptures for many public and private collections including the City of Brea, California, Chapman University and the National Geographic Museum. His work has been selected by prominent curators such as Dr...
Martin Blank
Martin Blank is an American glass artist who was born August 29, 1962. He received a BFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1984 with a major in glass. He studied with Dale Chihuly and by the 1990s was working independently. Blank has...
Date of birth:
- 1962 (age 48 years)
Stanislav Libenský
Stanislav Libenský (born 27 March 1921 in Sezemice-Mnichovo Hradiště, Czechoslovakia, died 24 February 2002 in Železný Brod, Czech Republic) was a Czech glass artist. Most of his life he worked with his wife, Jaroslava Brychtová. Together, they are...
Date of birth:
- 1921
Date of death:
- 2002 (age 81 years)
Jaroslava Brychtová
Jaroslava Brychtová (born 18 July 1924 in Železný Brod, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech glass artist and sculptor. Her career developed together with her second husband, Stanislav Libenský. They are well known as Libenský / Brychtová duo and were one of...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1924 (age 85 years)
Richard Harned
Richard Harned (born 1951) is a contemporary kinetic sculptor and glass artist. Harned trained under Dale Chihuly in the 1970s at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with other artists of the American Glass Movement, including Bruce Chao and...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1951 (age 58 years)
David Patchen
David Patchen is American glass artist who uses the Italian techniques of cane and murrine in an American style. (Cane are colored and patterned glass rods, murrine are patterned cross-sections of glass 'tiles'.) Patchen's work is known primarily...
Richard Royal
Richard Royal (born 1952) is an American glass artist. After having initially studied ceramics, Richard attended Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington and was one of the first students to emerge from the early days in the late 1970s. In the...
Date of birth:
- 1952 (age 58 years)
Meeli Kõiva
Meeli Kõiva (artist name Melissa Fox) (Born January 14, 1960) Estonia is an artist, primarily concerned with glass active in Finland, Belgium and US, where she has produced a range of paintings, architectural lighting sculptures, multimedia...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1960 (age 50 years)
Rick Mills
Rick Mills (born 1957) is an American glass artist who was born and raised in Marion, Ohio. He received his bachelor of fine art degree in sculpture from Ohio State University, where the art department reopened its glass program in 1980, during...
Date of birth:
- 1957 (age 53 years)
Flo Perkins
Flo Perkins (born 1951) an American glass artist currently working and residing in the Pojoaque Valley north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has studied under renowned Italian master glass blower Lino Tagliapietra. Her work can be found in several...
Date of birth:
- 1951 (age 59 years)
James Giles
James Giles (1718–1780) was a decorator of Worcester, Derby, Bow and Chelsea porcelain and also glass, who created gilt and enamelled objects such as decanters, drinking-glasses, perfume bottles and rosewater sprinklers, for a rococo and...
Date of birth:
- 1718
Date of death:
- 1780 (age 62 years)
Kazuo Kadonaga
Kazuo Kadonaga (born 1946) is a contemporary Japanese sculptor. He was born in 1946 in Ishikawa, Japan. From a family that owns a cedar forest and lumber mill.
Originally trained as a painter, Kadonaga soon realized that “others painted better” . In...
Date of birth:
- 1946 (age 64 years)
Chris Miseur
Chris Miseur (born 29 October 1953 in Holsbeek, Belgium) is a Belgian glassmaker and expressive artist who is classified as an abstract expressionist. She's a member of Belgian glass styling. She works with her husband Daniël Theys and son Daan...
Date of birth:
- Oct 29, 1953 (age 56 years)
Daniël Theys
Daniël Theys (born 26 January 1953 in Holsbeek, Belgium) is a Belgian glassmaker and expressive artist. He's a member of Belgian glass styling. He works with his wife Chris Miseur, they are also well known as the Theys and Miseur duo and are one of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 26, 1953 (age 56 years)
Claude Horan
Claude Horan (born 1917) is an American sculptor who was born in Long Beach, California. He received a BA from San Jose State University in 1942 BA and an MA degree in art from Ohio State University in 1946. His wife Suzi Pleyte Horan collaborated...
Date of birth:
- 1917 (age 93 years)
Miroslav Havel
Miroslav Havel (May 26, 1922 - September 5, 2008) was the chief designer for Waterford Crystal.
Born in Držkov, Czechoslovakia, he trained as a glass craftsman in Železný Brod and in the Academy of Art and Industrial Design ("Umprum") in Prague. As...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1922
Date of death:
- Sep 5, 2008 (age 86 years)
Silvio Vigliaturo
Silvio Vigliaturo was born in Acri (CS), in 1949. When still a child he moved to Chieri (TO), where presently he lives and works. He is a glassfusion maestro and his technique is appreciated internationally and considered unique in his genre by the...
