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Glass art includes the creation of stained glass, working glass in a torch flame (lampworking), glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing, and the making of glass shapes through glass blowing. It dates back to prehistoric times, was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria, brought to the fore by the Romans, and had its greatest triumphs in European cathedral building in stained glass rose-windows. Great ateliers like Tiffany, Lalique, Daum, Galle, the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Stubbe glassworks took glass art to the highest levels. Murano glass has not kept pace with production, but is still home to more glass masters than any other single place on Earth.

Contents 1 Contemporary North American glass artists 1.1 Canada 1.2 United States 2 Contemporary European Glass Artists 2.1 Czech 2.2 Denmark 2.3 Estonia 2.4 Germany 2.5 Italy 2.6 Slovakia 2.7 Sweden 2.8 United Kingdom 3 Contemporary Asian Glass Artists 3.1 Japan 3.2 Korea 4 Contemporary Oceania Glass Artists 4.1 Australia 5 Illicit Uses 6 See also 7 Bibliography 8 References 9 External links

Artwork in Canada is extensive, with a glass art gallery in Toronto that has international recognition. Canadian glassmakers have been very strong in glass paperweights.

Toronto's Harbourfront Centre and the Distillery District have glass studios with an artist-in-residence programmes that have fostered the development of glass art in Canada.

Among the better known glass artists in Canada are Robert Held, David Paterson, Kevin Robert Gray, Brad Copping, Jeff Goodman, Susan Edgerley, Brad Sherwood, Donald Robertson, and Irene Frolic.

Among the most famous and pivitol modern masters in the United States are: Harvey Littleton (the founder of the American Studio Glass Movement), Dominic Labino, Dale Chihuly, & Richard Marquis.

Other noted American glass artists are Cappy Thompson, Josiah McElheny, Christopher Ries, Jean-Pierre Canlis, Marvin Lipofsky, Joel Philip Myers, Joe Thomas, Dan Dailey, Martin Blank, Richard Jolley, William "Billy" Morris, Robert Mickelsen, Jennifer Elek, Milon Townsend, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Shane Fero, Mark Peiser, and Hans Godo Frabel, Dante Marioni, Paul Marioni, Richard Jolley, Benjamin Moore, Dick Weiss, Walter Lieberman, Bob Carlson, David Patchen, Brian Pike, Robbie Miller, Bob Snodgrass, Marc Petrovic, Peter Ivy, Stephen Rolfe Powell, Curtiss Brock , Kari Russell-Pool, Lance Friedman, Kristine Cheeseman, Michael Shinner, Katherine Gray, Deborah Moore, Charlie Parriot, Preston Singletary, Dante Marioni, Steve Klein, Kathy Seff and Jim Mongrain.

Postwar Czech glass movement still dominates the contemporary glass scene worldwide. This can clearly be seen in the works of artists such as S. Libensky/J. Brychtova, Vaclav Cigler, Vladimir Kopecky, Rene Roubicek and Pavel Hlava, among others. Stanislav Libensky Prague school from 1964 until 1987 had much to do with establishing the Modern Czech glass movement and its success left indelible mark on the contemporary world glass movement.^[1]

Tobias Møhl

Ivo Lill

Karl Ittig and Thomas Mūler-Litz

Lino Tagliapietra, Pino Signoretto, Silvano Signoretto, Lucio Bubaco, Cesare Toffolo, Carlo Tosi "Caramea", Davide Salvadore, Oscar Zanetti, and many more...

Milos Balgavy, Eva Fiserova, Juraj Oprsal, Askold Zacko

Bertil Vallien, Kjell Engman and Tina Lindström

Perthshire in Scotland was best known internationally for its glass paperweights fighting hard for sales in a declining market. It has always hosted the best glass artists working on small scales, but closed its factory in Crieff, Scotland in January 2002.

There is a growing number of Art Glass studios in the UK. Many specialise in production glassware while others concentrate on one off or limited edition pieces. E+M glass have successfully combined both disciplines since the mid 1980's. Ed and Margaret Burke of E+M glass, have their work in many respected shops and galleries around the world.

Peter Newsome is a UK-based glass sculptor.

Japanese glass art has a short but very rich history. The small Pacific island, Niijima, administered by Tokyo has a world-renowned glass art center, built and run by Osamu and Yumiko Noda, graduates of Illinois State University where they studied glass with world renowned glass artist and teacher Joel Philip Myers. Every autumn, the Niijima International Glass Art Festival takes place inviting top glass artists, such as Richard Marquis, Joel Philip Myers and Dale Chihuly, for demonstrations and seminars. Niijima glass art uses a rock indigenous to the island, rhyolite, a silica-based sandstone, known locally as koga.

Korean glass art is developing, and while it has a 1400 year old tradition, it has not kept pace with achievements in ceramics.

Contemporary Australian Glass Artists include:
Nick Mount, Ben Edols, Kathy Elliot, Klaus Moje, Tony Hanning, Gerry King, Clare Belfrage, Brian Hirst, Warren Langley, David Hay, Nick Wirdnham, and Maureen Williams.

The early Glass movement (studio glass) in Australia was spurred on by a visit to Australia by American artist Richard Marquis, who toured the country in the early seventies with a mobile studio assisted by Australian Nick Mount. Since that time Australian Glass has gained worldwide recognition with Adelaide in South Australia, hosting the International Glass Art Society Conference in 2005 on only its third occasion outside of the U.S.A.

Marijuana smokers prefer glass pipes to metal, ceramic, wood, stone, and other materials, in part for the belief that small flecks of metal scrap off the interior of the pipe and are sucked into the lungs. Glass is seen as the perfect material for its durability ( in this sense ), resistance to heat damage, and ease of cleaning. As with all glass art, such pipes may be basic and cost just over the cost of the raw materials, or highly ornate, occasionaly costing from several hundred to several thousand dollars.

• mosaic
• glass tiles
• glassblowing
• art glass
• caneworking
• paperweights

• Bibliography of paperweight reference books

• Etsy Glass Artists
• Glass Art Society Jumpoff
• Grand list of hyperlinks on glass
• Niijima Glass Art Center, in English
• A project to record Scotland's glass past and present.
• A guide to art glass around the World.

Museums

• Museum of American Glass Millville, NJ
• The Corning Museum of Glass Corning, New York
• Museum of Glass Tacoma, Washington
• Victoria & Albert Museum London, England
• Museum of Decorative Arts Prague, Czech Republic

Glass Artists

• Dale Chihuly
• Dante Marioni
• Lino Tagliapietra, Italian master
• William Morris
• Jeremy Langford

Glass Schools

• Penland School of Crafts
• Pilchuck Glass School
• RISD Glass
• Corning Glass Studio
• Washington Glass School
• RIT Glass