My interest in glass started like most glass workers, it was the fire, the artful dance with the flame. I remember as a child my parents had several small glass figures of animals they purchased at a shop in Berlin. It was something about their transparency and solid form that fascinated me. Actually watching a lampworker sculpt free form pieces from glass rods into figurines sparked my desire to one day learn this craft. In 1974 I took my first lampworking class at Vincennes University. I bought a torch, some glass and set up to make glass my garage.
Today I have a lampworking studio in St. Philip and display my work in an 1856 log cabin. I teach lampworking on the weekends by appointment. The only thing I find more enjoyable besides creating glass in the flame is seeing the joy in the faces of my students the moment they create their first glass object, and if you look closely, you can see that flame dancing in their eyes.
Artist Bio
The glass part:
Vincennes University - Scientific and Decorative Glass
Instructor Vincennes University scientific and Decorative Glass Blowing
Dean Stephens – Evansville- Lamp worked pendants
Karen Woodard – St. Louis - Glass beads
3rd Degree Glass St. Louis - Hot glass
Cameron Smith – Murphysboro IL. - Do U Glass – Hot glass
The Other stuff:
Vincennes University A.S. Biology
University Of Southern Indiana B.S. Pre Podiatry
Wm Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, Chicago
Welborn Hospital Podiatric Residency Evansville
Private practice - First Podiatry Evansville
Indiana Glass Barn.com
Davidpowellglassart.com
Hot glass studio owner
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