Revere Glass School

Teachers

Dustin Revere - Rita Revere - Brian Saccomano - Kaj Beck

Dustin Revere
Web: www.dustinrevere.com
Bio: Dustin Revere brings the traditional styles of original Italian history to new age frontiers. Trailblazing through Italy his way to Oakland California, Dustin Revere has studied under some of the most respected glassmakers of the last century...more

Rita Revere
Web: www.revereglass.com
Bio: Rita Revere has been privileged enough to have studied with some of the greatest Italian and American lampworkers of our time...more

Brian Saccomano
Web: www.create2live.org

Kaj Beck
Web: www.bouldercreekartglass.com
Bio: I began working in 1996 with Dave Clark III, Mike Warren in Humboldt County, then around 1998 I moved to San Diego, and began working with Rob Bessone shortly thereafter I met Josh Sable...more

Suellen Fowler
Web: www.flameworkglass.comSiteFilesSFFG-Main.html
Bio: SUELLEN FOWLER has blown and sculpted glass for over thirty years. She is the foremost practitioner of a method of flameworking characterized by working off the end of a glass blowpipe...more

Matthew Eskuche
Web: www.blownglass.ws
Bio: Matt began flameworking in 1998, trading a $50 debt with a lampworker to learn over his shoulder. A year later he studied at Penland with Emilio Santini for two months, then with Cesare Toffolo in 2002...more

Robert Mickelsen
Web: www.mickelsenstudios.com
Bio: Born in 1951 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Robert's formal education ended after one year of college...more

Steve Sizelove
Web: www.stevesizelove.com
Bio: Finding the medium of hot glass in 1995 could not have been
 a more life-changing event for Indiana artist Steve Sizelove...more

Banjo
Web: www.glasspipes.orgGal17269_Banjo.asp

Scott Deppe
Web: www.nebulaglass.comscottscott.htm
Bio: Without a doubt, Scott Has created some of the most creative and innovative pipes that we have ever seen...more

Clinton Roman
Web: www.lunaangelica.com
Bio: Since '94 I've been in the pursuit of expanding my horizons as a borosilicate lamp-worker. It's been a long journey...more

Bearclaw
Web: www.glasspipes.orgGal8432_bearclaw_s_Gallery.asp
Bio: Bearclaw78 started working with glass in the fall of 1998...full time all the time since. having no formal training, i feel joy watching the barriers of this medium fall before me...more

John Kobuki
Web: www.kobukiglass.com
Bio: "I started out watching a few different lamp workers at a shop that I was helping with a catalogue and some organization...more

Chris Roesinger
Web: www.glassartists.orgGal17047_Christopher_Roesinger_s_Gallery.asp
Bio: Momentum, Devotion, Creation......... Christopher Roesinger is a thriving artist whose lucid creations in glass can most often be found adorning the highly complimented...more

Amy Canada Ellenhorn
Web: www.glassartists.orgGal16848_Amy_Canada_Ellenhorn_s_Gallery.asp
Bio: Amy blew glass for the first time in 2002. She is currently a TA for Emilio Santini at VCU where she is on the verge of completing a BFA in material studies...more

Marbleslinger
Web: www.glasspipes.orgGal151_marbleslinger_s_Gallery.asp
Bio: I will cover any techniques in my vocabulary that students wish to know, from blowout and colour techs, honeycombs, disc flips, implosion mibs, implosion millies, retticellos, incalmos, shaping and construction, sandblasting, marbles etc etc...more

MNP
Web: www.glasspipes.orgGal17802_MNP_s_Gallery.asp
Bio: I've lived my whole life in Washington state. During the summer of 1998 good fortune landed me a spot in a local glass studio...more

Emilio Santini
Web: www.vetriglass.comartistses_main.html
Bio: Emilio Santini was born in Murano, Italy, into a family with six hundred years of glass blowing tradition...more

Marcel Braun
Web: www.glasspipes.orgGal20450_Marcel_s_Gallery.asp
Bio: I run a studio called Living Glass Works in Eugene Oregon. In addition to making headpieces for over ten years I build custom tools and kilns as well as license and design kilns through AIM kilns...more

Smiley
Web: www.glasspipes.orgGal10152__Glass_Art_By_Smiley_.asp
Bio: " I suddenly became stangely inebriated.The external world became changed as in a dream.Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions;and colors became more glowing ...more

Gianni Toso
Web: www.giannitoso.com
Bio: The Toso family has a 700-year uninterrupted tradition of Murano glass blowing, creating glass vessels that became the jealously guarded treasures of Venetian aristocracy...more

Dave Strobel
Web: www.glassartists.orgGal24760_Dave_Strobel_s_Gallery.asp
Bio: I've been blowing glass since 1991. I started with softglass hotshop work for a year, then moved into borosilicate scientific fabrication and repair for a few years, moving into boro artglass exclusively in 1995...more

Devin Somerville
Web: www.somervilleglass.com
Bio: Devin Somerville was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin in February of 1976. He moved to Milwaukee in 1994 and attended UWM to study art and architecture...more

Lance Wright
Web: www.revereglass.com
Bio: Lance Wright is an accomplished lampworking artist now residing in the Bay Area. His journey into the world of glass began in the mid 90’s in Phoenix, Arizona...more

Eusheen

Bio: Been on the torch since January of 2000 Recently became more addicted to glass then i ever have! I owe many thanks to Toadstool Gilbert, Mike Luna And Darby for opening this world up to me! Also thanks to Daniel Trilli and all the Homies in Arizona for my most recent major inspiration! Glass will be my life until i cant use my hands anymore!more

AKA
Web: www.myspace.comakaglass
Bio: Been on the torch since '95. Thanks for the inspiration from the glass community. Being able to sculpt hot glass, liquid light, is an awesome blessing...more

NEWS

Open Demo

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Every month we bring in great artists. The open demo gives the community a chance to meet them. It also gives starving artists a chance to watch for a few hours. All are welcome. Watch for updates to see who's coming up next.

July: Gianni Toso


Have Dustin Revere come teach at your shop!

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Dustin is working on a project to understand and develop international lampworking, both in schools and private studios. In the 2008 calender year Dustin is offering to teach for free for up to 5 days, in your international location. All that you need to provide is the flight and room and board. Please email or call soon, as only a few of these will be possible.

Myspace

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Revere Glass has a myspace please join our community. Here
Staff myspace pages:
Rita
AKA
CRE-8

New Doors

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Thank you MIke Nelson for making our beautiful new doors. The are sandblasted free hand. Please contact mike for information on his work. Mike Nelson


Videos

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Revere Glass now has a youtube channel. Check the latest workshops and other Revere stuff here

We buy/trade/upgrade Used Torches!

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Attention: Interior Designers

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Revere Glass will make you custom light fixtures for your next project. Call 510-233-FIRE or stop by for a consultation.

Revere Glass Scholarship Program

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Back by popular demand! Check out our forum for information on how to apply for your scholarship.

Mother's Day Sale!!

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25% OFF One-day lesson for any Mom.  10% OFF any purchase in our gallery. Now through Mother's Day.

FEATURED LINKS

2008 Workshops

  • EUSHEEN-April
  • EMILIO SANTINI-May
  • GIANNI TOSO-June
  • SUELLEN FOWLER- July
  • BEARCLAW-August
  • JOHN KOBUKI-September
  • DEVIN SOMERVILLE-October
  • 3RD ANNUAL FEMALE FLAMEOFF-Halloween
  • COLLABORATION AND DOCUMENTATION-November
  • BANJO IN AMSTERDAM-November
  • CLINTON ROMAN-December
  • KAJ BECK- Bead & Marble Basics-every other month
  • MARCEL BRAUN- Marcel Press Private Lessons

2009 Workshops

  • JASON LEE-January 2009
  • ROBERT MICKELSEN-February 2009
  • SCOTT DEPPE-March 2009
  • JOSH OPDENAKER-April 2009