Artist's Biography
KERRY W. TRANSTRUM
Kerry Transtrum is a well-known glass artist whose favorite discipline is kiln-formed glass.  He started working in the glass medium approximately 25 years ago and became fascinated with forming and shaping glass in a kiln about 18 years ago.  After studying with some of the glass industry giants such as Narsissis Quagliata and Gil Reynolds, Mr. Transtrum took the classic technique information he gleaned from those artists and began to experiment and form his own uniquen and very beautiful style.  Recently, Kerry studied with glass master Klaus Moje at the prestigious Pilchuk Glass School in Stanwood Washington and has begun incorporating the new and exciting ideas that developed from that tutelage.

Kerry is the owner of Glass Fire Studio in Salt Lake City Utah, where he creates his own work and offers instruction to the novice and professional hot glass workers who want to absorb the wealth of information he has to give.  Kerry is a popular instructor in glass forming techniques at glass conferences and trade shows nationally and internationally, such as Hot Glass Horizons in Portland, Oregon and Corning, New York and Glass Craft Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.  He is the current President and one of the founding members of th Glass Art Guild of Utah.  He has been featured in nationally syndicated magazines such as Glass Art Magazine.  His work can be viewed in commercial establishments throughout the country such as the Market Street Grill Restaurants and is also a featured artist in many galleries throughout the United States.  Recently, he has been awarded the commission for a large public art glass installation at the TRAX train station in his home of Salt Lake City, Utah.  Because of the excellence of his work and his dedication to the art, Kerry has recently been nominated to the Marquis Who's Who in American Art.

Kerry invites you to browse through his gallery, visit the galleries listed that display his work and take classes with him either in his private studio or at one of the other facilities that have requested his teaching skills.

For more information regarding Kerry's work or schedule, you are invited to contact him at:

email:kerry@glassfirestudio.com