Heather Kremen - Autumn Bowl

Heather fell in love with glass when she took her first glass blowing class in 2007 at Crystal Forge in Omaha, USA. Learning under Ed Fennel, Heather not only learned the basics of blowing glass but was also inspired to look up other glass artists and techniques. Moving to Minnesota for college, Heather began a mentorship under David Royce at Foci, Minnesota’s Center for Glass Art, and then took a year to study abroad at Tokyo Glass Arts Institute in Tokyo, Japan. Returning to the USA in 2010, spent the next 7 years working and taking classes at the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, at Bullseye Glass, California, at Pittsburgh Glass Center and at Foci Glass, Minnesota. In each of these places Heather was able to learn different techniques— blowing, carving, casting, coldworking, flame working, fusing, murrini, neon, rolling up, sand casting and sculpting—which she has perfected and uses in her work. In 2017, Heather decided to move back to New Zealand and take over the glass studio De Flute Glass in Rotorua which has been operating as Amokura Glass ever since. Now she works as an artist, runs the studio and gallery, and teaches glass blowing classes.