Bandhu Scott Dunham - Studio Art Glass

Calvin

Amazing Engine

Jump for Joy

Kiss

Born in Dayton, Ohio in 1959, Bandhu began to teach himself lampwork (or often referred to as flameworked) technique in 1975 while still in high school. As an undergraduate at Princeton, he received informal training from the university’s glassblower before completing his apprenticeship under American and European masters at Urban Glass, the Pilchuck Glass School and the Penland School of Crafts. Bandhu is currently an independent glass artist and glassblowing instructor. He is the author of Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame.

Innocence, vulnerability and analysis are recurring themes in my work. I like to bend reality to incorporate odd juxtapositions, to bend forms to follow my own quirky sensibility.

Many of my goblets express a childlike delight with simple things, or novel combinations of forms. Some are funky, some are elegant. They can be considered a “toast” to various manifestations of Innocence.