Metal and Cast Glass ‘Mine’ by Jen Blazina

Alluring metal and cast glass piece featuring the eponymous squirrel.

Crafted with quiet wit and exquisite detail, ‘Mine’ is a delicate form and narrative in cast glass and bronze.

A charming squirrel, rendered in bronze with lifelike poise, perches atop a voluminous cast-glass plinth—it’s a playful claim of ownership, a king of the forest castle. Or perhaps the winter stockpile of nuts.

Blazina’s process transforms imagined objects into shimmering miniature sculptures, reframing memory and whimsy through timeless materials.

This piece inhabits both sculpture and story: the bronze adds prowess, while the glass elevates it into an ethereal presence.

A lovely object that captures a moment—and stakes a sweet, silent claim in your space.

Metal and Cast Glass – Artist

Jen Blazina glass artist, works out of her studio in Philadelphia, USA.

Her work can be seen in museums and private collections around the world.

She works with cast glass in 2D and 3D form and has worked on a number of installations for both public and private clients.

Her detailed cast glass creations include art-nouveau inspired with detailed floral patterns, old finger-dial telephones and console joysticks.

Her 2d wall art work includes photos turned into glass paintings, and can also be used as windows.

Cranbrook Academy of Art – M.F.A in Printmaking

Sarah Lawrence College, New York – B.A.

Purchase College, State University of New York – B.F.A cum laude

She is currently a Professor of Fine Arts at Drexel University, PA, USA

Her fine glass art has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has been an Artist in Residence at the following locations (in alphabetical order):

Bezalel Art and Design Academy in Jerusalem, Israel
Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York
Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, NJ
Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA
Estonia Academy of Art in Tallinn, Estonia
European Ceramic Work Centre in Tilburg, Netherlands
Frans Masserel Centre in Kasterlee, Belgium
GAPP Residency at Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, OH

Her awarded grants include the Leeway Foundation Grant, Bessie and Louis Stein Fellowship, and the Independence Foundation Grant, supported by the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, USA.  

Jen Blazina Glass Artist Statement 

My role as an artist is to be a record keeper of lost memories and forgotten voices. 

Memory is embodied in everything around us in our culture, beliefs, our objects, and ourselves.  

Discarded objects, as well as ones passed down to me by my family, become personal keepsakes and icons of the past. To other people, these mementoes would otherwise be overlooked or regarded as something useless, but to me, my collections represent a sense of holding onto a place in time and capturing memory.  

Creating these visual narratives in all of my works, I express concepts of memory, document personal histories, and record voices which would otherwise be lost— universal concepts to which an audience can relate.