Peter VanderLaan of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been melting and working with glass for over 30 years. He combines science with his artwork, making all of his own colors as well as selling the excess and supplying crucibles to the glass industry through his company, Guadalupe Glass Corporation. Pete is currently at work on a book with Henry Halem to render studio glass chemistry, color and furnace construction into something reasonably understandable for the novice and intermediate mad scientist.Mary Beth Bliss "When Peter and I built our first studio, I discovered how very much I love to build. My early work in alternative energy and architecture has always informed my work in glass. I build my glass into intricate sequences of layers. Then I cut back through the layers to reveal, in their interiors, a rich world of complexity suffused in brilliant color. Each individual layer is lovingly rubbed, etched or tinted and creates an internal architecture of hidden balance, loss, revelation and illusion. It is an intoxicating material. I fully expect to explore it for the rest of my life." Mary holds her BA from Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM. She has taught photo-etching with Frite Dreisbach, Shorty Finley and Peter VanderLann at Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX and co-founded the Guadalupe Glass Corporation in Santa Fe, NM. Mary Beth Bliss "When Peter and I built our first studio, I discovered how very much I love to build. My early work in alternative energy and architecture has always informed my work in glass. I build my glass into intricate sequences of layers. Then I cut back through the layers to reveal, in their interiors, a rich world of complexity suffused in brilliant color. Each individual layer is lovingly rubbed, etched or tinted and creates an internal architecture of hidden balance, loss, revelation and illusion. It is an intoxicating material. I fully expect to explore it for the rest of my life." Mary holds her BA from Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM. She has taught photo-etching with Frite Dreisbach, Shorty Finley and Peter VanderLann at Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX and co-founded the Guadalupe Glass Corporation in Santa Fe, NM. MARY BETH BLISS "When Peter and I built our first studio, I discovered how very much I love to build. My early work in alternative energy and architecture has always informed my work in glass. I build my glass into intricate sequences of layers. Then I cut back through the layers to reveal, in their interiors, a rich world of complexity suffused in brilliant color. Each individual layer is lovingly rubbed, etched or tinted and creates an internal architecture of hidden balance, loss, revelation and illusion. It is an intoxicating material. I fully expect to explore it for the rest of my life." Mary holds her BA from Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM. She has taught photo-etching with Frite Dreisbach, Shorty Finley and Peter VanderLann at Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX and co-founded the Guadalupe Glass Corporation in Santa Fe, NM.