Chairman:

John Emery
Preston Studios
Melbourne, FL, USA

John is a partner with Jerry Preston of Preston Studios in Melbourne, Florida. The studio produces original commissioned work which is featured in a book released by Wardell Publications: Windows of Enduring Beauty; now in it's second printing. Commissioned works by the studio can be seen from Ames, Iowa to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. John has been working with glass for 28 years.

John is a founding member of the IGGA and has served for many years on the Board. Most recently, he was elected IGGA Chair.

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Steve Richard
Verrier Art Glass
Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Born and educated in Kansas, Steve has resided in the UK since 1965. Trained and employed in the library sciences, he received several degrees and was elected Fellow of the Library Association before his passion for glass took over completely in 1989.He then set up a full time studio, and recently opened a retail adjunct to the studio. His skills are many, and include restoration, French Embossing and glass painting. His current interests are developing toward fusing and casting.

Steve was elected as IGGA Vice Chair. Steve served as IGGA Chair from 2001-2004. He has been chairman of the Scottish Glass Society and is also a member of the Advisory Board of Applied Arts Scotland.

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Vicki Bundschu
Cape May, NJ and
Sanibel Island, FL, USA

Vicki Bundschu is from the New Jersey shore. She is recently retired from the motel and restaurant business in Cape May. She started small stained glass projects in 1992 and continued that for several years. During her snowbird time in Florida she took mosaic and fused glass classes. She has made numerous stepping stones and is always interested in learning new fusing techniques. She is honored to serve on the IGGA Board as Treasurer.

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Nadine Beth Schneider
Nadine's Folly
Ashburn, VA, USA

Originally from New York City, Nadine has lived all over the world and settled in Ashburn, Virginia nine years ago. Her studio, Nadine's Folly, Ltd, has been creating windows, entryways and warm glass for twenty-six years.

Nadine is the Co-Director of Membership for the StainedGlassArtists.com, a past President of the Killen (Texas) Civic Art Guild, a former director of the National Capital Art Glass Guild and a member of the Loudoun Arts Council and the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce. Her work has been exhibited at the First Calvalry Museum in Fort Hood, Texas. Her commissioned work is in private collections through the country.

Nadine is the 2007 President of the National Capitol Art Glass Guild. When she is not fooling around with frits or flux, Nadine enjoys cooking, entertaining and playing with her two standard poodles, Babe and Scout. She is now celebrating the addition to her family of her first grandchild.

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Ann Baxter
Baxter Glass Art
Grosse Pointe Park, MI, USA

Ann has worked in various art mediums throughout her life, from designing fashions and interiors to wood, clay, metals, needlework, illustration and painting, with a special interest in architecture and preservation/restoration.

It was that last interest, and the task of restoring a 1926 Tudor-styled home with many broken beveled/leaded windows and doors that turned her direction toward traditional leaded glass work. Once she learned the basics, the art of designing one-of-a-kind pieces and applying her painting skills to glass became her focus.

Working almost exclusively in glass since 1987, Ann now does most of her work on commissions from interior designers, architects and builders, and finds the most rewards in good design that compliments the structure. Her work is in many residential and community buildings, as well as a few churches, in southeast Michigan.

Ann spends her free time with her family, re-working her home and garden, and in many volunteer activities in the metro Detroit area. She has been a member of the IGGA since 1997 and on the Board since 2000. She is primarily responsible for producing the quarterly newsletter, Common Ground: Glass, the IGGA Source Guide, the Membership Directory, and the IGGA brochures and promotional merchandise.

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Kathi Bell
Glass by Kathi
Jacksonville, FL USA

Kathi has over 17 years of experience in fine art and design. A lifelong resident of Jacksonville, Florida, she graduated from Jacksonville University with a BFA degree. Both of her parents are accomplished artists - her father an architect, her mother a porcelain artist. She credits their support as being instrumental in her passion for art.

After a number of years in graphic design, including in her own business, Bell Graphics, Kathi realized her passion for all things glass and opened her home-based studio, Glass by Kathi, where she combines her fine art/graphic design training with the satisfaction of working with her hands to successfully translate a subject or motif into a one-of-a-kind glass art creation.

Kathi uses a combination of construction methods with stained and fused glass to achieve her artistic vision. A self-taught glass artist, she heartily thanks the many glass artists who have assisted her and with whom she has shared information along the way. Kathi's work can be found in private collections in Germany and across the United States. She is a member of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce, and joined the IGGA in 2005.

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Marceline Donaldson
Cambridge, MA, USA

Originally from New Orleans, Marceline still retains that charming accent and down-home charm while living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she runs a real-estate based Bed & Breakfast travel organization, The Bettina Network.

Schooled in Math and Physics, with advanced degrees from Harvard Business School and a Masters in Divinity from Boston University, Marceline is a woman of many, many talents. A few years ago, wanting to learn to cut glass so she could cover a wall in her bathroom with mirror tiles, she took a glass class from Dave Zaltzberg in Boston, and she was hooked. She is now the proud owner of a fully mosaic'd mirrored bathroom, walls and ceiling, and she has to warn her guests to be prepared before entering!

Marceline has continued to work in many facets of glass art since that project, including copper-foil and lead, and is now trying her hand at fusing with her new kiln. She finds great joy in noticing the time has flown while she is immersed in her art. In her free time, Marceline enjoys her family of four grown daughters and her music.

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Historian:

Gerry Phibbs
In Search of Alternatives
Glendale, CA, USA

Gerry, a "hands-on" type of guy works in an ever-changing menu of media, including glass. His company, In Search of Alternatives, is in Glendale, California. He started working with glass in the early 1970's and was largely self-taught. His defining moment came when he observed a color-intense oil painting being hit by the setting sun, making it appear to be backlit. Realizing the power of that strong visual, and the subsequent chance to purchase a small stash of glass and supplies, Gerry found his path leading to glass.

Gerry is presently serving on the IGGA Board as Historian and is a founding Member and the first Chairman of the IGGA. His contributions on the Board and as a dedicated IGGA Member has helped guide us throughout the years.

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Mary Hunt
Emerald Artwork and Glass
Platte, SD, USA

Mary's education runs the gamut from Thomas Nelson College, Old Dominion and Virginia Commonwealth Universities to the Corning Museum for Glass and various workshops throughout the country. Mary has mastered many glass techniques from copper-foil and lead flat panel construction, sandblasting, hand beveling, traditional painting, copper foil overlay, decorative soldering to kiln working. Mary is also an accomplished artist on canvas and paper using oils, chalks, charcoal, watercolor, and acrylic.

Mary is presently serving on the IGGA Board as Member at Large; she was the IGGA Secretary from 2002-2004.

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Susan Loubser
Dream Glass Studio
Pretoria, South Africa

Susan has an academic background in Geography and Town planning. All that changed in 1990 when her family relocated to Europe, and her love for stained glass started. She did all the courses from beginners to advanced before being approved as a glass artist by the Oxfordshire Guild of Artists. She did decorative work for exhibitions whilst tackling restoration projects in conjunction with local glass artisans.

In 2001 the family returned to South Africa. Susan then decided to expand her knowledge and glass expertise into warm glass, hot glass and flame working. Glass became such a passion that she decided to resign from a demanding position at the University of Pretoria. Her organizatoinal skills and attention to detail were in full use when she decided to create Dream Glass Studio. Susan firmly believes that through the passionate creation of a glass object you fulfil a dream, hence the name of the studio. She works full-time doing commissions and towards a future exhibition of glasswork.

The world of glass artistry is still a relatively new concept in South Africa, and Susan wants to establish a forum through which new ideas, innovative developments and issues in terms of quality in marketing, design and the craft in general, can be explored. She believes that this forum could open the possibilities of establishing a Chapter for the African continent. She lives in a quiet older suburb of Pretoria with her husband, sons, dogs and a parrot.

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The Advisory Board's duties are to "reflect on matters referred to it by the Chair, Executive Committee, or members at large. The Advisory Board may also initiate consideration of issues on its own authority."