GINA POPPE

Just a little bit about myself. I have always been interested in art. My mother realized my artistic talent when I brought one of my flower arrangements to my kindergarten class and my teacher accused my mother of making the arrangement for me (I was five years old). By the time I graduated from high school I had worked with most art mediums, won an award and two art scholarships (one of my teachers wanted to buy my batik work)... My involvement in stained and leaded glass started in 1976 when one of my brothers asked me to design a window for him (he was taking a stained glass class at the time), I thought "if he could do it, so could I." I have been working with glass ever since... I became interested in fused-glass in 1989 when I saw some glass jewelry being made. It was love at first sight! I envisioned making vases and plates in this technique.