ANNE NYE  Nebraska artist Anne Nye’s fused glass tech­nique comes from her back­ground as a painter. “I lit­er­ally paint with lay­ers of crushed glass, block­ing in back­ground col­ors then cre­ate new col­ors by adding lay­ers of trans­par­ent and opaque glass, cre­at­ing tex­ture & depth.”

REBECCA & DEAN DERBY  Becky and Dean Derby cre­ate fused glass chimes, fun­catch­ers and orna­ments. All of their work is made by fus­ing iri­des­cent clear and col­ored glass. All of the cut­ting, design, and fus­ing is done by the cou­ple in their con­verted garage stu­dio located in the North Car­olina Blue Ridge Moun­tains. Fus­ing is done at a fairly low tem­per­a­ture to leave lots of tex­ture in the glass. The Derby’s incor­po­rate glass beads, mille­fiore, brass find­ings and accents into their work.

LUKE ADAMS  Luke Adams of Mass­a­chu­setts pro­duces hand­blown glass, hang­ing sun catch­ers, paper­weights and dec­o­ra­tive accents. While he dis­cov­ered his love of draw­ing at an early age, it was dur­ing col­lege that he was drawn to glass blow­ing. Not only is Adams fol­low­ing his dream to work as an artist, but he also teaches glass­blow­ing and hot fused glass jew­elry mak­ing at his studio.

KATHY HUDSON  An exten­sive line of afford­able, func­tional and styl­ish fused glass table­top and gift­ware are hand­made by Texas artist Kathy Hud­son. After los­ing her job and cre­at­ing beaded jew­elry for a time, she took a glass class and was imme­di­ately hooked.

MORAG TOTTEN  Fused glass artist, Morag Tot­ten, designs and cre­ates col­or­ful, unique and con­tem­po­rary glass pieces. Born in Aus­tralia, she has trav­eled across five con­ti­nents and makes her home in Park City, UT. Her jour­neys have made a last­ing impres­sion on her as an artist and are reflected in the mate­ri­als she uses in her unique pieces.

NATE EVANS  Nate Evans of Iowa says, “as a pot­ter for the past 10 years I have always been intrigued by how glass and clay can be so sim­i­lar in min­eral com­po­si­tion and yet so com­pletely dif­fer­ent in their fin­ished states.” Today Nate cre­ates func­tional and dec­o­ra­tive fused glass ves­sels with sand­blasted decoration.

RICK HUNTER  Cal­i­for­nia glass blower, Rick Hunter, has been cre­at­ing hand blown glass designs for the last 20 years. The glass stu­dio is a one-man stu­dio spe­cial­iz­ing in unique and indi­vid­ual art pieces. These exquis­ite, one-of-a-kind glass designs include pitcher sets, vases, and lamps. “Ele­gant” and “refresh­ing” define Hunter’s glass.