LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS & LECTURE BY CHARLYN REYNOLDS

Charlyn Reynolds is a sculptor and installation artist who continues to use glass in her artwork. She studied fine art and glassmaking at Illinois State University under the instruction of John Miller. In 2019, she graduated with an MFA from the University of Texas-Arlington. She has worked for the Toledo Museum of Art and the Corning Museum of Glass performing live glass blowing demonstrations on Celebrity Cruise Lines while educating the public about glass as an artistic medium.She has developed her skills further by taking intensive classes at many craft schools from world renowned artists such as Kimiake and Shin-ichi Higuchi as well as Martin Janecky. She was able to expand her glass sculpting skills during the two-month class with Janecky and later worked for him at his studio in Fairbanks, Alaska. Presently, Charlyn lives in Miami, FL, where she is employed by Fine Art Handcrafted Lighting as a Manager of Glass Operations and Design. She continues to work with glass and various mixed media to create her own artwork and installations.