~ Chris and Lissa Juedemann ~
News and Publications
Public Glass/L.H Selman Ltd. - "Good Things | Samll Packages" - 2006
Connie Bostic - "Bullets Made of Glass" - Cover story, Mountain Xpress, January 11, 2006
Nathaniel Axtell - "Magnificent Marbles" - Cover story, Times-News Weekly, February 22, 2006
Paul Sullivan - "Collecting: Rolling out of Playtime" - The Financial Times Weekend edition, November 19, 2005
Mark P. Block - "The Encyclopedia of Modern Marbles, Spheres, and Orbs" - 2005
Andrew H. Dohan - "Chris and Lissa Juedemann, Murrine Artists" - Annual Bulliten of the Paperweight Collectors Association, Ltd. Ed, 2005
Jay Fields/Brad Campbell - "The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina" - 2004-2007
Craig Weis - "Building Doors and Entryways" 1996 (Stained Glass)
Exhibitions
2006
Worlds Within: Evolution of the Paperweight - Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Good Things | Small Packages: An Intimate Look at Small Glass - Public Glass, San Francisco, CA, and L.H. Selman, Ltd., Santa Cruz, CA
2003
Finding Your Marbles - Turtle Bay Museum, Redding, CA
Permanent Collections
The Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY
The Marble Museum - Yreka, CA
Lectures/Demonstrations
Murrine Madness - Paperweight Fest 2006 - Wheaton Village, Millville NJ
Internet Marketing - Art Business Institute, 2004
Biography
Chris Juedemann
Chris’ childhood was spent largely in the mountains of western North Carolina surrounded by woods, sky, and mountain culture. Though he moved about some, living in Texas, Florida, Georgia and Germany, he always made his way home to the mountains. Because his father resided in Germany, he made numerous extended trips there over the years. Chris continued his travels throughout his teenage years on tour with the Grateful Dead making his home in VW buses, teepees, and crowded hotel rooms as he criss-crossed the country. Chris spent two years studying organic gardening and heading up a 3 acre organic herb and vegetable farm in Florida. His career paths have also included working on crews to set up major arena shows, computer systems administration, washing dishes, fiber optics installation, building bat houses and assembling circuit boards for Moog theremins. Stemming from a life long fascination with glass, in 1993 Chris began to make and sell stained glass. His stained glass panels were like no others. Through innovative use of subject matter, solder lines and color Chris made stained glass true art. Over the years his stained glass has been in many galleries in the south east and sought by collectors. Chris met his wife Lissa in 1998 and they married less than a year later on a small bridge spanning a mountain brook. In 2002, more than fed up with computers and the corporate world, Chris and Lissa abandoned their careers to jump into glass full time. The move allowed Chris to fulfill a lifelong dream of working with glass for a living. Chris uses the torch to continue to explore new territories and push aside existing boundaries, bringing a fresh edge to his art.
Lissa Juedemann
Lissa grew up on the coast of Maine and spent her childhood on the seashore hunting for crabs and gathering sea glass. Lissa attended a small high school where she was able to focus on art and explore many media including printmaking, painting, ceramics, sculpture, and photography. In 1993 she was chosen by her school to spend time at Haystack School of Crafts in Deer Isle Maine. Her early art education included one on one photography classes with Verner Reed, as well as photography classes at the Maine College of Art. In 1993 Lissa spent a trimester in Los Angles studying painting at UCLA. After high school and 17 long Maine winters, Lissa hopped a Greyhound to Key West Florida where she lived for a year and then traveled up and down the east coast in a 1973 Dodge Dart, settling in Asheville, North Carolina. In Asheville, Lissa enrolled at UNCA where she earned a degree in Black and White Photography and anthropology. She received a grant to do anthropological research in Dijon, France, and to have a photography show of images from that time. Lissa was a photographer in a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council to document West Asheville. In 1998 Lissa met her husband, Chris, and as she fell in love with him, her love of glass deepened. Chris brought glass into the forefront of Lissa’s world and artistic endeavors. For three years Lissa owned a gourmet chocolate shop in Asheville, making and selling truffles and chocolates. Though she loves chocolate, and the work was creative, running a retail operation by her self was all-consuming. In 2002 Lissa sold the shop and Chris quit his job so the couple could pursue glass full time. Though the hours can be near the same, Lissa has immersed herself in glass and not looked back since.
Ari Juedemann
Ari is our new addition to the family. She was born on August 27, 2005.
Technique
Click here to see an example of a simple murrine constuction.