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Started working in glass in 1975 in Colorado, and has been working in California for 31 years.
www.susanlongini.com

Susan J. Longini has been involved in the glass world for over 3 decades as studio artist, educator and administrator.

Longini received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in sculpture from the University of Michigan and did postgraduate work at San Jose State University and California College of the Arts under Marvin Lipofsky. She also attended the Pilchuck School in Washington for two summers and has studied under Paul Marioni, Barbara Vassen, Elbinus Elskus, and Narcissus Quagliata.

From 1986 to 2003 she was Adjunct Professor and head of the Glass Program at Ohlone College in Fremont. In 2002 with Mary B. White, she co-chaired the California Glass Exchange, a 4-day conference for glass artists and university art students from all of California.

As Executive Director of the Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI), 2002-2004, Longini headed the buildout of the BAGI studio, including the hot shop, gift shop, gallery, and flameworking studio. During this time BAGI developed classes, lectures and demonstrations, master workshops, docent tours, mentorship and apprenticeship programs and gallery shows.

As an artist working in glass, Longini has exhibited throughout the United States. Her work is in public and private collections in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She is a frequent lecturer, guest curator and juror.

In addition to her career as a studio artist, she is President of the Glass Alliance of Northern California (GLANC), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to further education and appreciation of glass art. GLANC sponsors educational tours, lectures and shows relating to glass, publishes a quarterly newsletter and hosts a website with a comprehensive glass calendar of events. She served on the City of Fremont Art Review Board from 2000 to 2010, in charge of awarding artists grants for Art in Public Places projects.

“Amphorae Grande Crosshatch Spring Cobalt Pair”
Susan Longini
2006
Pate de verre with reservoir-cast bases
Each 35” x 17” x 8”

“Amphora Grande Carnivale”
Susan Longini
2006
Pate de verre with reservoir-cast base
35” x 17” x 8”

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Started working in glass in 1970 in Berkeley, California.
www.davidruth.com

David Ruth casts glass in his studio in East Oakland, making large-scale blocks and panels.  He was a student of Marvin Lipofsky at CCA and has traveled, taught and exhibited widely.  His current project is developing work from a National Science Foundation grant to take texture molds off glacier ice and stone in Antarctica.  He also makes architectural and environmental sculpture and is an expert in the casting of borosilicate, or Pyrex-type glasses.

“Erebus”
David Ruth
2008
Cast, fusedg lass, stainless gteel
68x4x24-inches

Llght Marker Series
David Ruth
2005
Cast, polished Pyrex’type glass (borosilicate), stainless steel
Tallest: l0-feet

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Started working in glass in 1969 at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA) in Oakland, CA.
www.rstrong.com

Randy Strong – artist and designer in hot glass for 40 years, has worked continuously throughout his career producing innovative designs in glass that continually influence the ever changing and growing community of studio glass artists.

Randy is one of a handful of the early pioneering American Glass Artists to help define American Studio Art Glass.  Before he was to enter the world of glass however, he began his broad education in the arts by working in and collecting photography.  In the late 60’s he was working as an events photographer for the Oakland Tribune, and for a brief period, was privileged to work with and learn from photographer Ansel Adams.  His first taste of working in glass came in 1969 at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California where he began by studying ceramics and was fortunate to have as his mentor, the renowned ceramicist, Peter Voulkos.  Upon graduation in 1970 he received one of the first scholarships to the University of Art in Osaka, Japan as one of the first exchange students between the Universities of Calif., Calif. College of Arts and Crafts, and Osaka, Japan.  That grounding in ceramics led him into the largely unknown frontier of studio art glass.  In 1970, he was with Dale Chihuly when Dale and the Haubergs selected the location for the now renowned Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington – and the journey into that frontier was well underway.

Many of today’s successful working glass artists are either former students, or have worked with or for him at one time.  His work, ranging from his distinctive crystal and gold goblets and his ground-breaking work with dichroic glass, to his imposing cast sculptures, and now his seemingly gravity defying, color saturated, multi-piece sculptures, have been acquired by collectors internationally and are a part of collections ranging from The Corning Museum in New York, to the Louvre in Paris.

Randy’s work through the last four decades has been characterized by the use of difficult, defining techniques, materials, colors and forms. His newest sculptural work again breaks new ground by challenging the concept of solid form in glass by further expressing its personality in lightness and movement.

It is said that the artist’s heart and passion is reflected in their work.  His new work does just that.

In 1970, he established his own studio and gallery in Northern California, where he continues to create, design and teach.

“Desert Cactus”
Randy Strong
2012
Glass
17.5″ x 18″ x 29″

“Blue Orchid’
Randy Strong
2012
Glass
12″ x 12″ x 25″