ARTIST PROFILE
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is April Velazquez. I fully admit to being quite a klutz. My husband lovingly calls me “Grace” when I injur myself.
When I was a kid, we used to get those big generic bags of marbles from the store and the ones that you had to hold up to the light to see what color they were fascinated me. I could spend hours looking at the inclusions in them. A trip to The Art Institute of Chicago’s
glass paperweight display changed my fascination into a full-blown love affair with glass. Talk about mesmerizing!
When I told my friends and family about lampworking, most of the replies sounded something like: “No offense April, but aren’t you a little ‘graceful’ to be working with an open flame”. I didn’t take offense, but I didn’t let that stop me either.
And So, as the story goes...Graceful Glass was born.
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