About

Carli Schultz Kruse is an artist working in the medium of art glass with a process called lampworking, a method of manipulating glass by melting it in the flame of a torch. As a child Kruse’s parents took her to Corning Glass in New York, where she watched wizards create amazing objects with glass as it flowed like slow water. The fascination has stayed with her ever since.

Kruse was born in Washington D.C. in 1972 and currently lives and creates in Beaverton, Oregon. She has worked in glass since 2004. Classes at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and at the Bullseye Resource Center have helped her further her knowledge of glass and jewelry fabrication. Her work has been seen in past issues of The Flow, A Distinctive Style and Bead Unique magazines, and in the Beaverton Valley Times newspaper. Recent work can be found in the just-released book “Art Glass Today.” She won first place in Jewelry at the Oregon Glass Guild’s Glass Expo in 2008 at the Portland Convention Center.