Grant Garmezy

Grant Garmezy is a hot-glass sculptor based at his Dragon Ranch studio in Richmond, Virginia, and a visiting artist at Ignite Glass Studios. Raised on a farm outside Nashville, he apprenticed in metal and jewelry before earning a BFA in glass at Virginia Commonwealth University; since then he has been a North Lands Creative residency artist in Scotland, a teaching assistant at Pilchuck, a founding assistant of the Chrysler Museum’s Perry Glass Studio, and a demonstrator from Seoul and Istanbul to Mumbai, where in 2024 he sculpted king cobras and a Ganesha at Rural Modern Glass Studio. He sculpts animals freehand at about 2,000°F, without molds, often with his wife and collaborator Erin Garmezy adding flameworked flowers. The pieces shown here, the Plasma Deer Skull and the Hammerhead Shark made with Ben Tullman, were made in Ignite’s hot shop with the team of artists at Ignite in Chicago and ship double boxed nationwide.