Carlisle Wall of Fame - Angelo Mendolia

I started in "The ABC's of Lampworking" with Sally Prasch. That was my first workshop/class. Since then I have worked in many shops around the USA. I have even studied under Arizona's master sculpture Dick Burkhalter in Sedona Az. for 8 months or so in his store "Coyote's/Burkhalter's" (1999). There is quite a list of others I have also worked with From California, to Asheville NC, to Ithaca NY and other places I have been where I could find a shop or set one up. Currently we have a nice little working shop, 2 Carlisle CC's running, 1 national 8m running and a variety of kilns of sizes in use (mostly Jenkens). Not to mention a couple torches and other kilns not set up or rarely used. There is another glass artist and my self full-time, and my girlfriend part time on the 8m enjoys making implosion/condensed imagery pendants, flower beads, aquatic life and doll house furnishings in glass. In the future I plan to mingle my glass skills along with my blacksmith skills to make sculptures, functional art, and furniture, or just what ever. I am currently near the end of my farrier (horse shoer) apprenticeship and will soon start my own business in that also. My glass business has granted me the finances to achieve that over the past few years. Glass has been a blessing as well as an artistic outlet for me. Who would've thought it all started when a glass worker saw my millifori's in FIMO (synthetic oven bake clay) that I did as a hobby, as a kid, and he referred me to my first glass workshop. I didn't even know what a millifori was.