Instructors
Margot Clark and Dr. Saulius Jankauskas (UGC owners/artists) offer classes in our UGC classrooms, conventions and other venues.
Margot Clark
Margot Clark is a mixed media artist. She teaches art in all forms and mediums, but glass is her passion. She participates in local art exhibits and her work is in private collections worldwide.
Margot has three works of art that are part of the permanent collection in the National Museum of Decorative Painting in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Dr. Saulius Jankauskas (Dr. "SJ")
S. Jankauskas, MD, is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon in Orlando, FL and has been working in hot glass since 1996. He uses recycled glass in most of his works. This, combined with Unique Glass Colors gives him unlimited artistic expression.
His works have won numerous awards, has been in many shows and galleries across the United States and is in private and corporate collections.
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United States
Alabama
Karen Reed
Earthstar Glass
Email: earthstar@mchsi.com
Website: earthstarglass.com
Karen has been working professionally
in glass since 1981 – creating glass art, teaching and writing
magazine articles. Karen’s creative glass palette includes
pieced, painted, kiln carved, abrasive etched, fused, laminated,
sandblasted, gilded, screen printed, cast, slumped and draped.
The photo titled 'Sun, Sky & Flowers' is an abstraction wherein
the UGC glass color was applied to white glass and fired then
cut into 1" squares and re-assembled. It is fused beneath
a full lens and the surface was abrasively etched then fire polished
back to a satin finish.
On Karen’s website,
under Installation, the mosaic piece done for the Holy Spirit
Catholic Church had pre-painted and fired UGC for the tree of
life. That piece was 4' tall and 5' wide. The church loves it
and it has become the most favorite backdrop for photos for all
sorts of occasions.
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International
Peru
Victor Silva
Tierra Viva
Email: victorsilva@tallertierraviva.com
Website: tallertierraviva.com
Victor started out
teaching hand molded ceramics in his small workshop when in was
eighteen while also studying law in Lima, Peru. After working
for a few years in the law field he decided to leave that behind
and dedicate himself to the workshop and its development and growth.
He then developed an interested in glass fusing, was introduced
to Unique Glass Colors and began to experiment with different
glass fusing techniques and feel s that that the quality and versatility
of UGC colors were essential in this journey. He went on to study
different glass techniques with various well-known teachers and
now travels all over South America teaching various glass seminars
of his own as well as running his own art glass business in Lima.
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