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James Stone - Bio
James was raised on a farm amongst the rolling hillsides of northern New Jersey's orchards and farm lands. After high school, James spent time traveling throughout India and Israel. His travels exposed him to the ancient arts. While living and working on a Kibbutz located on the Mediterranean Sea, James was fascinated to discover shards of ancient glass on the seashores and began a lifelong quest to understand glass making in the context of ancient Israel.
James holds a BA in Fine Arts from Farleigh Dickinson University in Madison New Jersey, where he further explored his passion for the Glass Arts. James has spent much of his life in pursuit of acquiring knowledge, understanding and skills in many of the ancient disciplines of glass making and metal smithing. While attending art classes at Palomar College in San Marcos California, James' creative medium of choice became glass blowing. After his initial introduction to glass making James went on to study with the worlds foremost glass paperweight artist Paul Stankard at the famed Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle. The following year James and his team were invited back as the official Pilchuck Documenters to produce a film about the first wave of the American Studio Glass Movement and the artists who were its progenitors.
James has worked in all glass mediums. While living in Las Vegas in the 70's, James owned and operated a 5000 square foot stained glass studio. The studio was responsible for commercial installations from the ceiling in the Sahara Convention Center to Tiffany reproductions for the Stardust Hotel. Also during the period Stone Stained Glass produced countless residential projects.
Most recently James has been blowing glass and creating art in fused glass for private placement as well as large Scale public architectural art installations. James is now proud to announce the opening of his performance based glass blowing facility located at the historic Bernardo Winery in Rancho Bernardo California. Also James is in development on his next documentary based on the histographical evidence uncovered by Samuel Kurinsky that glass making was invented and developed by the tribe of Abraham in the city of Ur, 4000 years BCE.