Bandhu Scott Dunham

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“I express my experience of the natural world through odd juxtapositions and bending forms to follow my own quirky sensibility. Glass is the perfect medium for this work:  its fluidity, malleability and paradoxical nature bring out the mysterious parts of myself that I seek to explore and express through art.”

Bandhu began to teach himself lampwork 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. Now an internationally respected glass artist, author and teacher, his work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums in the US and abroad. Museums showing Bandhu’s work include the Corning Museum of Glass, The Museum of Arts and Design, Museum für Glaskunst (Germany), Niijima Glass Art Center (Japan), Osaka University of Arts.

Bandhu regularly teaches workshops at craft schools and private studios around the United States and internationally. In 2010 he was Visiting Foreign Instructor at Osaka University of Arts in Japan. More recently he has been a presenter at the Ausglass Conference in Australia and the International Festival of Glass in England. Bandhu’s books in the Contemporary Lampworking series, now in it’s third edition, are the standard instructional texts in their field.