Jewish Glassblowers
January 10, 2025 5:35 AM   Subscribe

Do you know of any independent Jewish glassblowers?

A very good friend is a collector of art glass, especially necklace pendants. Friend has mentioned not having any Jewish artists in the collection and wanting to commission a pendant.

Looking for an independent artist, no big studios/corporations. Traditional glassblowing technique; none of the computer-driven stuff I've only recently learned exists. Should be skilled in small-scale (very-large pendant size) and possibly willing to create a unique piece of glass Judaica.

For the purpose of this question: any price and any location.
posted by MuChao to Media & Arts (7 answers total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
 
Would your friend be interested in non-blown (fused) glass art?
posted by pullayup at 6:16 AM on January 10 [1 favorite]


In case the answer is yes, here's Graciela Wajser Granek's Etsy page, with fused glass Judaica.
posted by Mr.Know-it-some at 6:18 AM on January 10




Pendants aren't super common in glassblowing (ie, furnace glass), more in lampwork/torchwork/flamework or in glass fusing so you might try the latter terms to help your searches.

Here are a couple of Jewish glass artists that I know of:

Marcela Rosemberg does glassblowing and does a lot of specialty judaica, but I don't know if she works as small as a pendant.

Dena Pengas is a caster/fuser rather than a blower. She doesn't feature much judaica on her website, but she does make it, and as you can see, she does a lot of work in the necklace size range and she takes commissions.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:41 AM on January 10


Also fused glass, there are a couple of pendants shown on his website but more active on Instagram, Andy Gersh
posted by alygator at 8:16 AM on January 10


Gianni Toso.
posted by needs more cowbell at 8:23 AM on January 10


Martin Kremer does gorgeous fused glass.
posted by theora55 at 9:16 AM on January 10


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