THE GLASS COMMISSION

SPONSORED BY BRUMOS MOTOR CARS, INC.

The TEAM Judith De Angelis Ian-Andrew Ellyson John Lukas Gregg Mills Andrew Peters Alana Spitzer Matt Cawley Thomas Musolino

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Judy De Angelis
Judy was born and raised in Cleveland Ohio. Since childhood she used natural objects, wood scraps, and clay beginning in her backyard. Later her interest broadened in to the areas of drawing and painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She spent middle and high school playing viola and in the school symphony orchestra. Also in high school she became interested in photography and set up a photography studio in her basement. In senior year of high school she was awarded with a scholarship to attend Cleveland State University began to study sculpture. Her interest in glass derived from visiting local studios in the Cleveland area lead her to the glass department of Jacksonville University. She also works as an animal care taker at the Jacksonville Zoo, which is a major inspiration for her artwork.

Jono Lukas
Jono was born and raised in North Florida on the St. Mary’s’ river sheltered from the rest of the world by miles of forest, with animal conservation surrounding his daily life allowing him to volunteer with hands on animal keeper experience, leading to a recent internship with a natural resource division for over two months. In between animal experience he spent years training as a Jr. Golfer and competing as a scratch golfer in Northeast Florida Jr. PGA tournaments. Glass became part of his life at age sixteen through a two-week residential Governors High School Program for Gifted Students glass program at JU. Since then he has explored sculpture for four years, training in glass at JU and Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina. He has assisting in teaching many classes at JU and at Penland where he has also worked as studio coordinator and is scheduled to return there this summer as a teaching assistant for a glass concentration coarse. For four year now he has made awards and sponsored gifts for the Jacksonville Film Festival, including art work as lifetime achievement awards for Bill Murray and Gram Green. He has a solo exhibition Jacksonville, and received awards for his personal artwork. He is currently a glass major and biology minor at Jacksonville University.

Alana Spitzer
Alana Spitzer was born and raised in Medina, Ohio. The third child of six children she is heavily influenced by family values. She developed an interest in glass at an early age by watching her grandfather make stained glass windows. She enjoyed ceramics, painting and the arts through grade school and high school. After one year of studying education, Alana decided she missed the arts and transferred to Jacksonville University. She is currently in her second year of ceramics and glassblowing studies. She intends to move back to Ohio after graduation and to build her own studio where she will continue her current series of glass rattles.

Andy Peters
Born in Memphis, TN in the December of 1982, Andy’s family moved to Jacksonville when he was five and remained here since. In high school he developed an interest in art. However, at the time, it was eclipsed by an interest in computers. His mother, in an attempt to unglue him from the screen enrolled Andy in Jacksonville University’s Glassblowing class for High School Students. As a pyromaniac he was pleased with the experience, and from that point on, the artist took control. After two years of high school glass classes, he enrolled at J.U. as an undergraduate, art scholarship in hand. While art isn’t his major, art has been part of his collegiate career, taking at least one studio art class every semester since freshman year. He now teaches the same high school glass class that brought him to J.U. During the last three years he has spent summers vacation in a small shop in Pennsylvania working on historical glass reproductions. His personal work, characterized by unusual forms and exciting colors is in many private collections. He will graduate from JU this December with a degree in Computer Information Systems, and minors in chemistry, and studio art.

Thomas Musolino
Thomas was born and raised in Melbourne, Florida. He has a degree in Culinary Arts from the Florida Culinary Institute. After working in the restaurant Industry for five years he decided to go back to school and completed an my A.A. at Brevard Community College. Then lived in France for six months and received a good education in art and culture. Upon returning to the states he became immersed in the arts pursuit of arts and tried most mediums without interest until trying hot glass at Penland School of Crafts. The short workshop suited his personality particularly the aspect of utilizing fire an aspect he missed form his culinary days. He is now at Jacksonville University to pursue a career in glass and ultimately to obtain a teaching career in a university upon completion of an MFA in the future.

Gregg Mills
Gregg Mills was born and raised in Statesville, North Carolina. He discovered glass blowing on his tour of Jacksonville University, and immediately decided that he had to learn. As a technical theatre major, he has held position of master carpenter and electrician for many of the schools productions. His technical experience opened up the door for him to become the Technical director for Dolphin Productions, the schools programming board. He is also a proud member of Phi Gamma Delta, and Alpha Psi Omega.