As part of the national celebration of 50 years of studio glass, we honor the artists who were central to the development of new techniques, teaching art students about glass and creating a focus on the glass arts in California. \u00a0 This article is the beginning of a living time-line of glass studio artists in California.<\/p>\n
We encourage artists to bringing studio photos and bios to add to the timeline being created at the symposium.\u00a0 In addition, we are creating a \u201cDirectory of California Glass Artists\u201d on our website.\u00a0 We welcome glass artists of all decades who have worked in California to fill out an information form with a bio and photos of your work to include in the Directory. \u00a0See the Studio Artists Menu on this website.<\/p>\n
1962 Clayton Bailey<\/span> 1962 <\/strong><\/span>Edris Eckha<\/span>rdt Fall 1964 Marvin Lipofsky<\/span> Fall 1964 Dr. Robert Fritz<\/span> 1965-69 Dick Marquis<\/span> 1965-1967 Boyce Lundstrom<\/span> Summer 1967 Marvin Lipofsky<\/strong><\/span>Marvin started the California College of the Arts Glass program.<\/p>\n 1968 California College of the Arts<\/span> 1968 John Burton \u2013 Suellen Fowler<\/span> 1968 Peter Mollica<\/span> 1969 Dick Marquis<\/span> 1969 Ruth Tamura 1969\u00a0\u00a0 John Lewis<\/span> 1969 Dan Fenton\u00a0<\/span> 1969 Dick Marquis Awarded Fullbright-Hayes Fellowship to Italy<\/span> 1970 Dick Marquis<\/span> 1970 Mark Peiser<\/span> 1973\u00a0 <\/strong>GCGS\u00a0 Erik Hoglund<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1974 Bullseye Glass<\/span> SJSU glass student Boyce Lundstrom is one of the three original partners who founded Bullseye Glass.\u00a0 Boyce Lundstrom and fellow Bullseye co-owner are known to many kiln-glass artists as authors of the landmark Kiln Firing Glass: Glass Fusing Book One<\/em>.\u00a0 Boyce Lundstom is the author of Advanced Fusing Techniques (Glass Fusing, Book 2)<\/em> and Glass Casting and Mold Making (Glass Fusing, Book 3)<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1978 Glass Art Society meeting at Asiloma<\/span>r By the mid 1970s: Glass Programs Were Thriving! \u00a0In 1980s Cal Poly started it\u2019s glass program<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1982<\/strong>-86 Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend 1985 Boyce Lundstom<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As part of the national celebration of 50 years of studio glass, we honor the artists who were central to the development of new techniques, teaching art students about glass and creating a focus on the glass arts in California. … Continue reading
\n<\/strong>Clayton is part of the historic Toledo glass workshop as one of Harvey Littleton\u2019s students (see William Warmus\u2019s article Blue Jeans to Black Tie, 50 Years of Studio Glass). Clayton later becomes a well known California ceramic sculptor and educator. www.claytonbailey.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>UC Berkeley hires sculptor Edris Eckhardt to teach a glass casting course, the first California glass class in a school of higher education. \u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edris_Eckhardt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Harvey Littleton\u2019s student Marvin Lipofsky is hired to start a glass program at UC Berkeley. \u00a0www.marvinlipofsky.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Harvey Littleton\u2019s student, Dr. Robert Fritz starts a glass program in at San Jose State University School of Art and Design.\u00a0 Dr. Fritz was already teaching ceramics at SJSU but had been researching glass processes since 1960. \u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_C._Fritz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Dick Marquis studies with Peter Voulkos, Jim Melchert, Ron Nagle, Robert Hudson, Ed Rossbach and Marvin Lipofsky to learn everything about everything.\u00a0 He makes the Lord\u2019s Prayer out of glass murrini and is the first American to work in a Murano glass factory. www.richardmarquis.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Boyce Lundstrom enrolled in glass program at SJSU with Dr. Robert Fritz. Boyce Lundstrom graduates from SJSU in1967, operates glass studio in southern California for two years and becomes co-founder of Bullseye Glass. www.boycelundstrom.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>LIpofsky, at CCA, starts a tradition of Great California Glass Symposiums. (The California Contributions: 50 Years of Studio Glass symposium is part of this tradition.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Pepperdine University initiates classes taught by glass pioneer John Burton.
\nSuellen Fowler is one of his first students and continued to pioneer coloration of borosilicate glass. www.FlameworkGlass.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Peter and his wife moved to California and set up his studio making commissioned and non-commission stained glass.\u00a0 With the help of writer Norm Fogel and photographer Charles Frizzell<\/a><\/span> he authored and published STAINED GLASS PRIMER:<\/a><\/span> a handbook of stained glass technique<\/em> in 1971. In 1972, they produced STAINED GLASS PRIMER, VOL.2: advanced techniques and annotated bibliography<\/em> in 1977. In 1981 Peter published a Japanese language edition of STAINED GLASS PRIMER.\u00a0 www.petermollica.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Dick receives his BA UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>Ruth is first person to receive MA in Glass from CCA. She teaches glass courses while Marvin Lipofsky is away.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>In the late 60\u2019s, Professor Marvin Lipofsky introduces John, a graduate student in architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, to blown glass.\u00a0 Lewis opens his art glass studio in 1969, the first private studio in the Bay Area. A little more than a decade later, a $15,000 National Endowment of the Arts grant allows him the freedom to begin exploring other methods of working with glass including cast glass.\u00a0 He builds overhead glass casting facility. www.johnlewisglass.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Dan establishes his own stained glass studio in 1969. He has been described as a “walking-talking encyclopedia” for art glass techniques. A pioneer in the field, he combines slumping, fusing, cutting and reassembling, and painting to come up with unique designs and color compositions in a non-traditional style.
\nDan teaches classes and workshops worldwide, and has written many articles and books. P\u00e2te de Verre and Kiln Casting of Glass <\/em><\/strong>In Dan’s own words, “You will have at your fingertips the wealth of technical knowledge that can only come from years of experimentation and experience.” www.danfenton.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Dan lives in Venice and works at Venini Fabbrica in Murano becoming one of the first Americans to every work in a Venetian glass factory.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Dick brings back murini glass techniques and makes intricate lord prayer on a glass murine.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Mark had an epiphany during Marvin Lipofsky\u2019s 3rd \u201cGreat California Glass Symposium,\u201d held at both University of California – Berkeley and California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) in Oakland, following the 1970 Oakland NCECA Conference. While talking with West Coast glassblowers in the living room of Jim Wayne (a San Jose State Bay Area glassblower with a backyard furnace), Mark realized that we each thought the \u201creal action\u201d took place on the other coast from where we lived. Hit by this grass-is-greener syndrome, well all agreed with Mark\u2019s suggestion to try and gather regularly to exchange information. This idea, a verbalization of our desire to help each other, became the incentive for developing a community with mutual interests. The bonding of artists to help each other is still virtually absent in disciplines like painting, printmaking, jewelry, etc. My non-glass friends are jealous of the camaraderie that I continue to share with my glass buddies.\u201d
\nhttp:\/\/www.glassart.org\/_The_First_Decade.htm<\/span>l<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Bullseye Glass is the first new glass manufacturer to produce opal sheet glass since 1900. www.bullseyeglass.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The 2012 California Glass Exchange, California Contributions: 50 years of Studio Glass at the Crucible will feature and honor some of these early artists. www.glassart.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>San Francisco State University
\nCollege of Marin
\nCSU Fresno
\nCSU Chico
\nSanta Monica College
\nPalomar College
\nCSU Fullerton<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>Susan is a past board member of the Glass Art Society (1982-86) and an Honorary Life Member, served as the first woman president of the GAS. www.facebook.com\/susan.stinsmuehlenamend<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Boyce sells his shares in Bulleye Glass and moved to Camp Colton.<\/p>\n
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