AP Art Studio- Blown Glass Artists

Nancy Callan

•   Nancy Callan received her B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1996, where she studied with Dan Dailey and Robin Grebe. 

•  In 2001, Callan received the coveted Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship at Wheaten Village in New Jersey. 

• Nancy has been recently awarded a prestigious residency at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma Washington. Callan has exhibited throughout the United States, and is included in many public and private collections, and in many museums including the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, the Muskegon Museum of Art in Michigan, the La Conner Museum of Art in Washington and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.

• Influenced by childhood, toys, and comic books, Callan fuses playfulness with a fluency in her medium to produce colorful and exceptionally well-crafted works.

Dale Chihuly

• Dale Chihuly was born in Tacoma Washington, in 1941. 
• He graduated in 1965 from the University of Washington where he first was introduced to glass while studying interior design.He received his M.S. in sculpture in 1967 from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied glassblowing with Harvey Littleton. In 1969 he established the Glass Department at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he taught until 1983.
• In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971. Throughout the 1970's , influenced by the great glassblowing tradition of Murano, Chihuly experimented with the team approach to glassblowing. Working with a team of master glassblowers and assistants has enabled him to produce architectural glass art of a scale and quantity unimaginable working alone or with only one assistant. 

Josh Simpson

• Born in 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut
• "Josh Simpson is an artist who chooses to confront glass with his own vitality, passion, intellect and skill. He attempts not only to probe and question the definitions and standards of the past, but also to open himself to the improvisational possibilities of glass."