Jennifer Mally is a glass artist and the owner of the Blackberry Glass Studio, a specialty glass design house located in Mazomanie, Wisconsin. Jennifer creates original, fused, artistry glass in the form of large panels, framed glass pictures, custom tiles, mosaics, slumped sculpture, glass vessels and jewelry. The Blackberry Glass Studio creates pieces for galleries, special orders for clients, and commercial glass work for architects and interior designers.

For the past eight years Jennifer has successfully combined her years of experience as a mechanical engineer with her life-long passion for art. While living abroad for several years, Jennifer studied at a fiber arts school in Finland and also worked as a design engineer in Germany and England. This unique combination of experiences gives Jennifer the ability to create with glass both technically as well as artistically.

Fused or kiln formed glass is made by hand-cutting and layering beautifully colored and textured glass and fusing it in a kiln to temperatures up to 1500 degrees. The glass melts together to form a single piece of glass with all the individual qualities of its pieces. The new sheet of glass can be slumped into another shape, cut, polished, or framed as art.

Jennifer is a native of Wisconsin and lives with her family surrounded by the beauty of the hills, woods and Wisconsin River which are her main sources of artistic inspiration.

Jennifer will exhibit her artworks and explain the process of creating fused glass. Because her studio will be open during the tour, people are fee to wander in, ask questions and see her fusing equipment.

The Blackberry Glass Studio
504 Emily Road, Mazomanie, WI 53560
608-843-1778
mallyjennifer@yahoo.com
www.blackberryglass.com

 

Images © Jennifer Mally