Meet Marcia Brown

Meet Marcia Brown

Spotlight on Marcia Brown  I was born in Michigan but fell in love with the Florida lifestyle coming to visit my great-grandmother on the Gulf of Mexico. I earned a bachelor’s degree in Fine arts and moved to Sarasota, Florida. Well, I moved my meager...
Meet Glenda Long

Meet Glenda Long

Spotlight on Glenda Long  Being fortunate to grow up in a rural area of Kansas City, Kansas, we had chickens, horses, goats, dogs and cats. My friends and I rode our horses in our neighborhood. At eight years old, I heard piano music on the radio and begged my mother...
Meet Barb Fukusaka

Meet Barb Fukusaka

Spotlight on Barb Fukusaka  Hello! My name is Barb Fukusaka and I live in beautiful BC on the west coast of Canada, but we call it the “Wet Coast”. My journey in glass began 21 years ago when I came across Cindy Jenkin’s book – a bible for a...
Meet Darcy Abbott

Meet Darcy Abbott

Spotlight on Darcy Abbott  Greetings from Tallahassee, Florida’s capital city. I have been around glass art for as long as I can remember. I grew up in New York, very close to the Corning Museum of Glass. I visited the museum so frequently that the art pieces became...
Meet Darlene Balkum

Meet Darlene Balkum

Spotlight on Darlene Balkum  I live in Columbus, Georgia in the USA. I was a Respiratory Therapist for 38 years. I worked caring for neonates for several years then switched to treating children of all ages at Egleston Children’s Hospital which was located in...
Meet Tanya Layton

Meet Tanya Layton

Spotlight on Tanya Layton  I live in Fort Walton Beach on the lovely Emerald Coast of Florida. I grew up in a small town in South Louisiana about an hour outside of New Orleans, called Bayou Blue. I have no formal art training, but I have a background in music and...