Bio
Stefanie Briscoe, based in Pacific Grove, California, has been refining her work as a glass jewelry artist over the past few years. Previously, Stefanie received a degree from San Jose State University in art, with a concentration in photography, and taught photography at the high school level. Leaving the classroom, she pursued a master’s degree in educational counseling and counseled high school students for the last 21 years of her career in education. Throughout those years she developed skills in various forms of creative art including the use of metals, enameling, and ceramics. She is now focused on blown glass as a medium to create her jewelry.
In developing her blown-glass skills and style, Stefanie attended a glass-bead-making class at the Bay Area Glass Institute in San Jose, California in 2016. In 2017, Stefanie studied glass-bead blowing under Aja Vaz at both the Melting Point in Sedona, Arizona, and at the Kiss My Glass Studio in Santa Cruz, California. In the spring of 2019, she studied with Olga Alianova in London, England, to further develop her glass-bead blowing techniques.
Stefanie finds inspiration for her creations from her natural surroundings living on the
Pacific Coast, pulling colors and forms from the ocean, the coastal vegetation, and the forest.
Stefanie Briscoe, based in Pacific Grove, California, has been refining her work as a glass jewelry artist over the past few years. Previously, Stefanie received a degree from San Jose State University in art, with a concentration in photography, and taught photography at the high school level. Leaving the classroom, she pursued a master’s degree in educational counseling and counseled high school students for the last 21 years of her career in education. Throughout those years she developed skills in various forms of creative art including the use of metals, enameling, and ceramics. She is now focused on blown glass as a medium to create her jewelry.
In developing her blown-glass skills and style, Stefanie attended a glass-bead-making class at the Bay Area Glass Institute in San Jose, California in 2016. In 2017, Stefanie studied glass-bead blowing under Aja Vaz at both the Melting Point in Sedona, Arizona, and at the Kiss My Glass Studio in Santa Cruz, California. In the spring of 2019, she studied with Olga Alianova in London, England, to further develop her glass-bead blowing techniques.
Stefanie finds inspiration for her creations from her natural surroundings living on the
Pacific Coast, pulling colors and forms from the ocean, the coastal vegetation, and the forest.
video by Philip Blakley
