California-born glass artist, Sandy Hartke, has made his home in Ohio’s legendary glass city, Toledo, working at the renowned Toledo Museum of Art’s Libbey Glass Pavilion. Equally at home in flame-working and hot-shop glass, his work in recent years has focused on flowers of all kinds, commissioned collaboratively by acclaimed artists such as Beth Lipman. He studied under Curtis Brock at the Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Technical University and completed his BFA at Bowling Green State University under Alli Hoag. Additionally, he has done a master classes in flameworking with Erin Garmezy, and Gianni Toso, and in hot glass sculpture with Martin Stefanek at Pilchuck. He derives his inspiration from the world around him to capture the wonder of small details and color that can only be rendered in the beauty and luminous vibrancy of glass.