Jessica Landau

Flameworking, Hot Glass

Jessica Landau

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Jessica Landau was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and raised mostly in rural South Carolina. Her artistic ventures have included completing her BFA in 2D Fine Arts at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, exhibiting in galleries nationwide, and demonstrating glassblowing techniques for public and private special events. She has lived in Hawaii since 2003, during which time she has traveled to study, work, and TA at Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, the Glass Corner in the Netherlands, and Studio 19 in Great Britain. Landau is scheduled to assist with a class at Corning Museum of Glass in 2015. She assisted with the glassblowing program at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii from 2008-2012 and currently works as a Teaching Artist with Hilltop Artists in Residence program in Tacoma, where juvenile delinquents are mandated by the court to use glassblowing as a community service project. Landau is on the faculty at the Schack Art Center in Everett and Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle and at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn. Landau is also a full time member of the glassblowing team at Chihuly Studios. She divides her personal time between studios in Honolulu and Seattle. She assists several glassblowing teams in the Seattle area on a freelance basis, simultaneous to teaching and creating an ever-expanding body of whimsical glass artwork. Landau’s work is found in the Rohm and Haas permanent corporate collection and in private collections worldwide.

Links to web sites: www.jessicalandau.com, Represented by Vetri Glass