The Blenko Glass Company has earned its reputation by carefully preserving the glassmaking traditions of ancient times. Founder William John Blenko, a devoted English glassmaker, brought the traditional techniques of his craft to America in 1893. Today, every stage of production is still manually performed.

Cohn-Stone Studios is the work place of California artist Michael Cohn and Molly Stone. Their studio is one of the nation's foremost producers of designer vases, decorative art pieces and one of a kind sculptural works of art. Since 1972, the works of M. Cohn and M. Stone have been exhibited in the USA, Europe, Scandanavia, Australia, the Soviet Union, Japan, and South America. Their works are included in numerous museums and private collections worldwide.

Donald Carlson has been working with glass since 1967, when he decided to build a small glassmaking studio in his home instead of pursuing a career in marketing. While his eloquent pieces are available in a variety of colors, it is the color red that has captured his imagination.

With an obvious feel for shape, Carlson produces simple, elegant pieces that stand alone in their beauty. His red best demonstrates the artistic and technical control expected of the Carlson tradition.

Edward M. Hammond, glass artist, has been blowing and sculpting glass since 1976. His products are sold around the world, and he now owns his own studio and gift shop in East Troy, Pennsylvania. Ed also does custom work and teaches students how to create and expand their imagination in glass art.

Ed experiments with precious metals and chemicals to create his own colors, which are unique to his line today. He uses a technique of coloring the hot glass surfaces which he calls veiling. A veil is a metallic coating applied to hot glass and then covered with more clear glass so as to trap the color. After the sculptures have been annealed, they go through six different steps of polishing to achieve the optical interior glass veiling. The facets are added to give visual enhancement to the interior glass veiling.

George Kennard has taught many glassblowing classes at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass. He was one of its first artists-in-residence during the autumn of 1996. George currently demonstrates on the Museum's Hot Glass Show stage.

Renowned glass artist Ginger Kelly received her BA from California State University. She is the principal at the Ginger Kelly Glass Studio in Seattle, and teaches at various institutions including the Pratt Fine Arts Center. Ginger's glass designs are bold, vibrant, and truly unique. Signature designs include retro glass tableware, contemporary vessels, and exquisite glass jewelry.

The Italian artist and jewellery designer Giorgio Vigna (b. 1955) is fascinated by the tension of opposites: reality and imagination, shape and material. Vigna`s piece are often sculptural and they carry strong symbolic meanings. The versatile Vigna has designed jewellery for theatrical performances, operas, fashion shows and movies. For the Venini glass factory in Venice he created unique artwork and a jewellery collection.

Hudson Beach Glass was established in 1987 producing hand cast glass while situated in an old ice factory. The studio is made up of American designers of glass John Gilvey, Wendy Gilvey, Michael Benzer, and Jennifer Smith. Their glass has the characteristic trademark called chill wrinkle. It is renowned for having chameleon properties and unique color combing with a color palette of transparent precious stones.

Jesse Kelly began working with glass at age 18 as an apprentice at a production studio in Seattle. In the 11 years since beginning to blow glass, Jesse has had the opportunity to work with several inspiring glass artists both locally and abroad, and has studied at the Pil chuck Glass School both as a student and as a teacher's assistant. In addition, Jesse has taugh glassblowing at the Pratt Fine Arts Center. Jesse's successful line of products includes a variety of whimsical glass garden accents, his beautiful and unique metallic fruit series, and more.

Jonathan Winfisky is one of the few glass artists today designing and producing sophisticated, free-blown glass sculpture. Amidst contemporary trends toward fabrication, his simple, evocative, and elegantly sculpted forms in glass stand out as a highly recognized feature of the glass art movement in this country.

Ken Rosenfeld's paperweight expertise evolved from a formal art and technical background. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of California and a Master's of Fine Arts degree from Southern Illinois University to complete his education. Over twenty years of studio and scientific glasswork have also provided essential steps in Rosenfeld's artistic development.

Kjell Engman was born in 1946. Retained by Kosta Boda since 1978, he has a studio at Boda glassworks. He gets his inspriration from the most diverse sources, including the animal kingdom and the world of music and entertainment. Engman often works on large installations in which he also combines elements of sound and light. He is also frequently commissioned for public works in Sweden and abroad.

Located in the small coastal town of Davenport, California, Lundberg Studios has been producing paperweights since 1972. It first became known for its iridescent glass and Art Nouveau style. Later, its clear encased weights with flower, bird, butterfly, and seascape motifs marked the emergence of a new form of paperweight.

Maestro Lynn LaBarr Started his glass working career gathering and blowing glass for lab ware at Corning Incorporated in 1972. In 1983 he went to Steuben Glass working his way through an apprenticeship to become a first class gaffer. Mr. LaBarr is currently at The Corning Museum of Glass demonstrating his skills and creating stunning works in glass for the Hot Glass Show. On his own time Lynn enjoys developing and mastering his own glass creations.

Mad Art Studios was started on the back patio of a home shared by Michael Maddy and Rina Fehrensen. It has since grown into a 2,000 square foot studio complex with a fully equipped hot shop for glass and a ceramics workshop.

Rina Fehrensen is a native Californian with family roots in Germany. Her interest in glassblowing stems from a visit to the glass factories on the island of Murano, Italy in 1989 while on a trip around the world. Since that time she has studied at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood,WA, the the Bildwerk School of Glass in Germany, and with the Italian master, Lino Tagliapietra at the Haystack School of Crafts in Maine. Fehrensen is best known for her use of color and often times whimsical themes that she incorporates into her pieces. Given the quality and detail of her glass pieces, her work has strong value within an affordable range.

Nationally acclaimed for its excellence in glass design, Orient & Flume produces signed fine art glass pieces that capture nature's inspiration in both iridescent and clear glass.

Peet was first introduced to glass in 1971 as one of the first students at "Pilchuck Glass Center" near Seattle, Washington. Since then, he has worked with Dale Chihuly and Dan Dailey and participated in workshhops with artists Paul Marioni, Bertil Vallien, Joel Myers and Fritz Dreisbach. He holds a B.F.A. Degree in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, and an M.A. Degree in glass from Kent State. Over the span of 30 years, Peet has developed techniques, tools and equipment which give him complete control over the design and execution of each piece. Peet continues to enjoy the challenge of designing and producing blown glass insired by natural landscape.

In the unique world of Peggy Karr Glass, each piece is meticulously handcrafted in her New Jersey Studio. In the handmade process, brilliant colors are sifted onto the glass and then kiln fired to 1600°, giving a unique quality to each piece in the form of subtle color variations, surface textures, and small bubbles. Each piece of artwork is equally at home in your kitchen as on display in your living room. All platters and serving pieces are dishwasher and mircowave warming safe. It is functional art that is made to be used and enjoyed for years to come.

For over three decades Abelman Art Glass has infused its glass creations with the wonder and drama of nature's flora and fauna. Stuart Abelman's love of nature, combined with his dedication and devotion to glass, has created a unique energy that drives his studio which includes some of the world's most talented glass masters.

It has been Stuart's goal, together with the highly skilled glassblowers at Abelman, to create the finest hand blown art glass.

The work created at the studio is in demand not only for its technical expertise, but also for its creativity and originality.

The glass jewelry by Sydney Cash is miniature sculpture, original, elegant, and beautiful. Cash has used his special fabrication techniques in designing a unique collection of objects for personal adornment.

Treg Silkwood is an independent artist in the San Francisco Bay area. He has received his B.F.A. from Alfred University. He also studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and did graduate at Illinois State University. For the past seven years, he has presented demonstrations and taught glassblowing at several institutions, including The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass.

Founded in 1979 in CorningÆs historic Market Street district, Vitrix Hot Glass Studio is regarded among AmericaÆs prominent contemporary glass studios. Glass Artist Thomas P. Kelly, owner of Vitrix; along with Robert Kelly, business manager; are committed to uncompromising quality and craftsmanship and the satisfaction of their customers.