San Francisco native Yolanda Adra, now based in Los Angeles, has always been an artist at heart. As a child, her favorite activity was to visit the San Francisco Museum of Art to experience all different types of artwork. Since then, her love for art blossomed into a full-time career, but she hardly thinks of creating art as a job-instead, it is a passion: "A job is something you have to do, but a passion is something you love to do." She worked in a variety of media while attending San Jose State University, but she settled on glass shortly after moving to Los Angeles in 1994. She first became interested in stained glass, then took a glass-fusing workshop, and she proudly states that she "never looked back." Yolanda had found her true passion. She has focused on fused glass ever since.
Stained glass, fused glass and blown glass works are available along with classes, glass and supplies. Rick Keppler and Suzanne Love Burks are resident artists. Rick first made his acquaintance with the glass arts in his teenage years through friends that were passionate hot glass artists. After an early career in corporate management he decided to make that back flip off of the diving board and pursue his art by opening this studio of his own.
Atlantis Art Glass Studio is the only Central Florida studio doing thermal art glass panels.
Victor L. Berthelsdorf was raised in Portland, Oregon, and came to Florida to attend the University of South Florida . With a degree in Anthropology, he served two years in the Peace Corps before devoting himself to learning the art and craft of leaded stained glass. Shortly thereafter he went into business as Kaleidoscope Glass Works.
In the 1980s John and Dee Branca, retired stained glass workers became members of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church. They held classes and involved the church in recreating the Jesus in Gethsemene window at the front of the church in traditional stained glass. It took another 13 years to have the smaller side windows re-created in stained glass.
Wilbur Herbert Burnham, born in Boston in 1887, was an artist and master craftsman in stained glass. Recognized as an outstanding authority on his subject, Burnham was commissioned to design windows for churches and cathedrals in the United States and in Europe. Among his most notable works are windows in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Washington DC, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Riverside Church in New York City, Princeton University Chapel, and the American Church in Paris. Although he died in 1974, the studio he founded in 1922 is still in operation. Located in Rowley, MA, it is operated by his grandson, Mr. Wilbur C. Burnham.
Ed Carpenter studied architectural glass art under artists in England and Germany during the early 1970's, and now lives with his wife and two children in the Coast Range mountains west of Portland, Oregon. His work specializes in large-scale public installations ranging from architectural sculpture to infrastructure design. Since 1973 he has completed scores of projects for public, corporate, and ecclesiastical clients. While an interest in light has been fundamental to virtually all of Carpenter's work, he also embraces commissions which require new approaches and skills. This openness has led to increasing variety in his commissions and a wide range of sites and materials. He is known as an eager and open-minded collaborator as well as technical innovator. His use of cold bent tempered glass, encapsulated glass elements, programmed artificial lighting, and unusual tension structures has broken new ground in architectural art.
With huge glass features in airports, institutions and homes across the globe, CartherŐs early inspiration is seen from his memories of the Rocky Mountains suddenly rising from the plains as his family motored Westward. In 1974 we was struck with a desire to learn the art of glass blowing and studied briefly in New York before attending the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) under Marvin Lipofsky.
Diochroic glass is favored in his current pieces for the way, when laminated between a base layer of glass and a carved layer, it picks up the subtleties of his carvings.
Carther has installed numerous glass artworks worldwide. Locations of some of his most noteworthy are: The Canadian Embassy, Tokyo; Charles de Galle Airport, Paris; The Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage; and Lincoln House, Hong Kong. The later project is one of the largest glass art projects in the world. It weights 25 tons.
Marguerite Gaudin is a leading designer for Willet Stained Glass Studios. After graduating in 1930 from the Philadelphia College of Arts, she joined Willet's as a cartoonist in 1931, was the studio's head designer by 1940, and later became its director and vice-president. Her window designs have been found in several Michigan churches.
American Abstract expressionist painter particularly well known for his large scale hard-edge paintings.
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, Held showed no interest in art until leaving the Navy in 1947. Inspired by his friend Nicholas Krushenick, Held enrolled in the Art Students League of New York. In 1949, using the support of the G.I. Bill, he went to Paris for three years, to study at the Academie de la Grande Chaumire. He returned to New York in 1953, to struggle with his work for several years.
After his first solo Abstract expressionist exhibition in 1959, Held's large-scale paintings of colorful, simple abstract geometric forms gained increasing recognition in America and Europe. In 1962, he was appointed to the Yale University Faculty Of Art (where he would teach until 1980). In 1965, the critic Irving Sandler curated the critically acclaimed Concrete Expressionism show at New York University featuring the work of painters Al Held and Knox Martin and the sculptors Ronald Bladen, George Sugarman and David Weinrib.
In 1966, Held was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the Logan Medal of the arts. Feeling that he'd reached the end of his style's potential, he shifted in 1967 to black and white images that dealt with challenging perspectives and "spatial conundrums." Some critics dismissed this work as simply disorienting; others declared it Held's finest achievement to date. By the late 70's, he had re-introduced color to his work. In his later years, Held earned commissions of up to one million dollars. In 2005, he completed a large, colorful mural in the New York City Subway system, at East 53rd Street and Lexington.
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