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Gary Beecham

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Nationality
  
U.S. citizen

Occupation
  
Glass artist

Name
  
Gary Beecham


Born
  
April 21, 1955
Ladysmith, Wisconsin

Education
  
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Gary Beecham is a studio glass artist of North Carolina.

Contents

Education, work

Beecham’s art education was taken at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Art in 1979. He worked for a year in 1978 at the J. & L. Lobmeyr glassworks in Vienna, Austria before returning to the United States to settle in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. There he worked from 1980 to 1985 as an assistant to Harvey Littleton. Thereafter Beecham began his own career in glass, creating in the techniques of free-blowing, fusing and carving glass.

Colleagues

Beecham is one of several notable glass artists who have made their home in western North Carolina. Colleagues who live in the region include Rick and Valerie Beck, Katherine and William Bernstein, Shane Fero, Rob Levin, John Littleton and Kate Vogel, Mark Peiser, Richard Ritter, Jeffrey M. Todd, Yaffa Sikorsky-Todd and Jan Williams.

Collections

Beecham’s work has been collected by the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Düsseldorf Art Museum in Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf; Glasmuseum Frauenau in Frauenau, Germany; Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia and Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.

References

Gary Beecham Wikipedia