William Glasner

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William Glasner is widely known for his distinctive Leaf aplique designs in vases, bowls, perfume vials and other works that offer original, contemporary interpretations of classic forms. Creating his leaf aplique style involves the hot forming of clear crystal leaves over a blown glass form. Once cold, the leaves are usually etched to a matte finish.

Glasner earned his BA degree from the University of Rochester, 1969. He subsequently studied with master glass artists Lino Tagliapietra, Stephen Dee Edwards and Giani Toso and at the Rochester Folk Art Guild Glass Studio.

He has attended glass workshops at Penland School of Crafts, NC; Haystack Mountain School; and the New York Experimental Glass Workshop. Each piece is signed William Glasner, dated, numbered. He has worked in glass since 1973 and established his own studio, Nashama Glass Studio, in 1978, in rural area of the Northeast.

Glasner's work has been featured in articles in the New York Times and American Craft Magazine; in the books GLASS: State of the Art (1984) and New Glass: A Worldwide Survey; is represented in the permanent collection of the Corning Museum of Glass; in the collections of the Denmark’s GlasMuseum, International Collection of Modern Glass and the the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

In Japan, his work has been included in the prestigious Glass Now, an annual exhibition of contemporary American glass art for each of the years 1980 to 1983 and 1987 to 1990. In 1989, Glasner’s work was included in Americans in Moscow, an Exhibition of Contemporary American Glass, sponsored by the Corning Museum of Glass.

William Glasner's works have been widely exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Japan, Europe and the former Soviet Union. Among the museums that have exhibited his work are: the American Craft Museum, NY; the Corning Museum of Glass, NY; the Everson Museum, NY; the Huntington Museum, WV; the Ebeltoft Glas Museum, Denmark; the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; the Musee de Arts Decoratif, Paris; the New Bedford Glass Museum, CT; the Owens-Illinois Arts Center, OH; the Roberson Center for Arts and Sciences, NY; the Saibu Museum, Tokyo; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Wheaton Glass Museum, NJ; The White House, Washington, DC; and the Smithsonian Institution.