Johnathon Schmuck

Johnathon started glassmaking at San Jose State University in 1988, and ten years later received the first Fulbright Scholarship to study glass in Australia, where he earned a Master of Visual Art in 2000. He has worked with Klaus Moje, Lino Tagliapietra, Pino Signoretto, Jiri Harcuba, Stephen Procter, Dan Dailey, and Flo Perkins. Johnathon has taught at the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, at the Eugene Glass School, Pittsburgh Glass Center, and Escuela del Vidrio in Spain. He is well travelled -- having worked glass on four continents, and he is well versed in fusing, blowing and coldworking. Johnathon recently published a book, The Joy of Coldworking, A Guide to Grinding, Smoothing, and Polishing Blown and Fused Glass. Presently he lives and has a studio in Santa Cruz, California.