Art Glass by Scott Hegan

"Primarily, my youth was saturated in varied vocational experience: drafting, carpentry, lutherie, metalsmithing and computer programming. In some measure, all these disciplines prepared me to begin working with glass. I started working hot glass in college and was immediately consumed. However, in the past three years I have taken control of my creative energies. Entering into my mature period, making glass is no longer reflexive, it is reflective. Glass objects from my studio chronicle the passage of time and symbolize my ideas and thoughts.

Though entirely my own original creation, my murrini work is preceded and influenced by a hundred generations of glass artists. During the l century BC, Egyptians were forming and fusing murrini, to be followed by the Romans, the Venetians, the French and the Americans, each appropriating the technique to serve their own purposes. The enduring appeal of murrini lies in the endless variety and complexity of design that can be produced and the possibility of adding intentional expressive meaning to an object. Each one of my designs begins with forming and stretching cane out of hot glass, then sectioning these sticks of glass into slices known as murrini. These murrini are then incorporated into unique and limited production items through a combination of advanced glass making techniques that I develop in my studio. I work with historical and humanistic themes: romantic love, approaching loss and the passage of time."

2006
Group show "Made in California: Glass from the Golden State", Oakland Museum of California

2004
New Product Showcase, San Francisco Harvest Festival
San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art: Group Show
Fifth Annual Exhibition of Functional and Decorative Art

2000-2002
Master of Business Administration, California State University, Chico
President of Graduate Business Association
Member of Golden Key
Inductee of Phi Kappa Phi

1995-2000 Seattle period teams, artists and organizations that I worked with:
Chihuly, Inc
• Executed Chihuly Over Venice, the critically acclaimed Venetian biennial installation featured in PBS Special "Chihuly over Venice"
• Member of the Chandelier and Sea Form Teams
Denny Park Glass, LLC

Executed work for modern artists working in glass:
• Leon Applebaum
• Therman Statum
• Flo Perkins
• Jim Nowak
• Mark Monson
• Phil O'Reiley
• Glasshouse, LLC
Large architectural commissions nationally
Led Glassblowing team during production of large or complex work

Pilchuck Glass School
• Instructional and administrative positions
• Beginning Glassblowing
• Live and Silent Auction Assistant Coordinator

1990-1995
R. Strong Creative Art Glass
Master Goblet Maker:
• Swedish Mold blowing technique
• Swedish applied foot technique

1985-1989
Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts
Sculpture Emphasis