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About the Artist

As a young adult, I was always interested in art, but being an artist seemed scary. Instead, I joined Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and for thirty years I helped a lot of people, so I don’t regret that choice. Near the end of that career though, I became interested in glass art. I began working in stained glass (cold), progressed to fused and slumped glass (warm), and eventually became involved with glass casting and glass blowing (hot).

Now retired, I live in the mountains of western North Carolina surrounded by one of the largest art communities in the country. I have built a glass studio behind my house where I currently work in both hot and warm glass.
 

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        I enjoy creating blown glasswork that gives the illusion of motion and try to capture the molten flow of hot glass in many of my pieces. I also enjoy introducing a variety of colors in my work; sometimes combining vibrant colors with subdued ones. I am currently working with fused glass panels and slumped plates as well as fused glass jewelry. My work is an exploration of just some of the potential of working with hot and warm glass.

I have studied at The Studio at Corning , Corning Museum of Glass, NY, Pilchuck Glass School , WA , and at the Penland School of Crafts, NC. I have been a resident artist at the University of Miami Glass Facility in Coral Gables , FL and have also taught a glass fusing workshop at Rowe Studios Art Glass in Miami .

J.J. Brown		  

 

jj@fyreglas.com