Local glass artist, Jen Violette, has created these charming hand-blown glass monsters in honor of BMAC’s 7th GLASSTASTIC exhibition. Each one carefully crafted with its own little personality and waiting to be given a home.

Assorted colors vary, more variations available at BMAC. Approximately 4 to 5 inches tall.

Jen Violette began working with glass at Alfred University in 1991 at age 18, and has been working with molten glass for the past 33 years. She received her BFA in glass and metal sculpture from Alfred University School of Art and Design in 1994. She has also studied at the Pilchuck Glass School, The Corning Museum of Glass, Rhode Island School of Design, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Penland School of Crafts. Violette has studied with many of the best glass maestros in the world, including Lino Tagliapietra, William Morris, Pino Signoretto, Dante Marioni, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Martin Janecky, Richard Marquis, Randy Walker, Kait Rhoads, Stephen Dee Edwards and Fred Tschida.

Violette was a featured guest artist at the Corning Museum of Glass Ampitheater Hot Shop in 2017 & 2018, and also taught a Creative Glass Sculpting Techniques class at the Corning Museum of Glass in 2018. In May 2019, she was a guest artist at Public Glass in San Francisco, and in November 2019, she was a featured glass artist on the Corning Museum Mobile Glass Stage at SOFA Chicago.