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We talked to an incredible glass artist named Dohn Joe Glass about his career and characteristic style. In the early 2000's Dohn Joe Glass was making money by working in kitchens, but he wasn't enjoying the work and wanted to find a way to make a more enjoyable living. A friend of his had recently started working with soft glass and borosilicate glass, and Dohn Joe Glass would regularly watch

We talked to glassblower Glass By AJ about his career and his uniquely musical line of products. In 1997 Glass By AJ was attending music school at the University of Georgia. He had a friend that worked at a head shop, and at the time Glass By AJ thought that was the coolest job in the world, so he would ask his friend over and over to put in a good word for him and try to secure a job for h

We talked to glassblower Entity Glass about her career and the path that led her to become such an amazing glass artist. Entity Glass has an art school background with a diverse skill set and wide range of interests. She started as a Photography major but moved into Animation and Virtual Reality Development. These fields demanded an intense amount of practice in perspective, balance, color

We talked to an incredible glassblower named Takoda Madrona about his career and what lies in the future for this young artist. Takoda Madrona started blowing glass when he was only 16 years old. Before he found glass, the young Takoda was already a burgeoning artist who worked in various mediums. One of his favorite items to work with in those days were old AOL installation discs that were

We talked to glass artist Dawg House Glass about his career and his love for glassblowing. Dawg House Glass started blowing glass after he almost lost one of his legs in a motorcycle accident. The injury was devastating and he spent months relearning how to walk and function. During this time Dawg House Glass began to think about what direction his life was heading: he had been doing constr

We had a rare opportunity to interview Robert Mickelsen, an esteemed figure in American glassblowing, so we sat down with him to discuss his life and career. Robert Mickelsen has been a household name in the world of fine art glass since the late 1970's. Only a very small handful of American glassblowers who were active in that time period continue to work today, and fewer still w

We talked to glassblower EBox Glass Art about his career and what the future has in store for him. EBox Glass is an incredible artist that grew up in Jackson Beach, Florida, a town known for ornamental glass artists like Lance Sanford as well as having a healthy cannabis glass scene that was tied into the local surfing culture. EBox was deeply embedded in the local surfing culture, often purchas

We talked to sculptural glass artist Glass By Boots (Gina "Boots" Gaffner) about the path that led her to become such a unique and iconic glassblower. When she was in high school, Boots had worked at a glass bead shop where she got some experience working with soft glass, but this was short-lived and after leaving that job she wouldn't touch a torch again for a few years. Fast-forward to the

We talked to up-and-coming marble artist Vincent Glass Works (Joshua Vincent) about his astonishing glass marbles and what the future holds for his art. We ran into Vincent Glass Works at Glass Vegas 2021 and we couldn't help but scoop up an entire gun case full of his gigantic marbles to list on our website, and any serious marble collector would do well to pick up one of Joshua Vincent's

We talked to Cajun Glass Designs about his experiences in the glassblowing industry and the future of Cajun Glass Designs. Cajun Glass Designs is an old-school glassblower who started blowing some time in '98 or '99. He had never even seen a glass pipe until circumstances led him to the house of an acquaintance in New Orleans where Cajun was planning to pick up a quarter pound of weed. The

We talked to legendary glass artist Eli Mazet about his life's work and the contributions he has made to the glass industry throughout the years. Mazet has an infectiously positive energy and a boundless imagination to match, and our interview touched on a wide range of topics which fascinate him. Collectively Eli and his brothers are known as the Mazet Brothers, and they operate a studio kno

We talked to Chaka Glass about his life and the sources of inspiration that led him to become known as "the Iceman". Chaka started his journey in glass in 2004, during a time when it was generally quite dangerous to make and sell cannabis glass. Just a year before, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency had conducted a $12 million investigation and sting operation against businesses selling drug paraphe