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About this Instructor:
Josh
Mazet has been working in art and art education for over ten
years. A BFA graduate of the University of Oregon, he was a
resident artist in the university’s ceramics department and
instructed their Wood Fire Ceramics program for three years.
Josh was first introduced to glass by taking an evening job
a production glass blowing shop. Two years of intense work
in production glass blowing refined and developed Josh’s
glass blowing skills but his passion for wood fire ceramics
was strong and he left the glass blowing shop for other
opportunities in art education. Josh has always felt that
clay and glass are exciting mediums to work in, having
similar working properties, yet contrasting in their overall
processes. About a year after Josh had left the glass shop
his brother Eli expressed an interest in learning to work
with glass. Together they set up a small lamp working
station in his garage and so began Eli’s journey into glass.
During the next two years while working two jobs- one in
phone sales and the other a major shipping company, Eli
logged hundreds and hundreds of hours behind the torch. In
glass he had found an outlet for his high energy and
discovered a passion for creating art. Eli’s out going
personality, work history and the love of glass prompted him
to go to the coast where he approached shops to sell his
whimsical glass creatures. The response was exciting and
encouraging. Eli quickly envisioned a family studio and
asked Josh to join him in the development of a lamp worked
glass business. Mazet Studios is the combined work and
energy of Josh and Eli Mazet and has grown to include
younger brother Tim and mother Tym. The studio is expanding
beyond lamp work to include fused glass and pottery. Mazet
studio’s lamp work glass art can now be found in galleries
across the country and beyond.
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