Brian Kerkvliet Brian Kerkvliet has worked with glass since 1977. He has taught workshops in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the U.S., including Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Arts and Crafts and Red Deer College. He focuses on several different aspects of glasswork, recently exploring Italian furnace techniques with a contemporary twist. He is also known for his Flameworked goblets, sculpture, beads, and his furnace blown goblets, with an emphasis on incorporating flameworked imagery onto the pieces. Since 1994 Brian has hosted a series of glass workshops at his studio at Inspiration Farm, where he and other nationally recognized glass artists instruct aspiring students. Brian's style is fairly diverse, encompassing many facets of glass art. However, the fun and whimsy expressed in his work shines throughout the entire spectrum of his pieces. From intimate cosmic and vessel beads to sculptural figurative goblets and the Cosmic Kid series, a joy for life and technical expertise is expressed in each and every piece. Brian has taken many age old classical glass working techniques and added his own contemporary, childlike enthusiasm and blended it together where it works to bring joyful glass into existence. EDUCATION 1989 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, furnace sculpture under Italian Prima Maestro, Pino Signoretto. 1993 Teaching Assistant for "Gathering of Glass," Penland School of Arts and Crafts, NC. Richard Ritter, Mark Piser, and Paul Stankard. 1987/88 Teaching Assistant for Ginny Ruffner at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA 1985 Pilchuck Glass School on Scholarship for two sessions, Stanwood, WA, flameworking under Ginny Ruffner and hot glass under Dick Marquis & Thurman Statum. 1984 Pilchuck Glass School on Scholarship, Stanwood, WA, flameworking under Ginny Ruffner. 1983 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, flameworking under Pavel and Josef Molnar. 1975-80 Apprenticeship Program, Hellebore Glass Studio, Langley, WA