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Crimson Laurel Gallery SPECIALIZING IN STUDIO CERAMICS Phone (828) 688-3599 email: Crimsonlaurelart@aol.com
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J. J. Brown J. J. has always been interested in art but was too scared to think of it as a career. So instead, he joined Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue. For thirty years it was a great job and he got to help a lot of people, so he doesn't regret that choice. Near the end of his career though, he became interested in glass art. He began with stained glass (cold), and progressed to fused and slumped glass (warm), and eventually moved to glass casting and glass blowing (hot). He retired from the Fire Department in 2001 and moved to Bakersville, North Carolina. He is completing construction of a hot glass studio that should be operating by spring 2003. He plans to work both in hot and warm glass when his studio is complete. His most recent pieces have been made at the glass studio at the Penland School of Crafts. He has studied at The Studio at Corning (at the Corning Museum of Glass, NY), Pilchuck Glass School, WA, and at the Penland School of Crafts, in North Carolina. He has been a resident artist at the University of Miami Glass Facility in Coral Gables, Florida. He has also taught a glass fusing workshop at Rowe Studios Art Glass in Miami. "I live in the mountains (back up in the holler), and enjoy my deer, fox, squirrels, turkeys, grouse, groundhogs, chipmunks, raccoons, rabbits, birds and even my bats! I'm probably too old to try and start a new career, especially one so darn complicated, but heck it's too late now...the studio's almost finished." |