DUSTIN REVERE

Dustin Revere spent years learning the secrets of glass and metal. Now he spends his days sharing what he’s learned with the world. Born the son of a father who was a master goldsmith and a mother who was a weaver, Revere was immersed in art from day one. “I grew up in a free-thinking environment,” he said. “Art was really important.”

His father started the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in the Bay Area of San Francisco when Revere was just a toddler. “I grew up watching him create this jewelry school,” he shared. This had a significant impact on the development of Revere as an artist, and by high school he was creating functional art –sneaking bong designs into the kiln in his ceramics class and selling them at Grateful Dead shows.

“I was really fascinated by the gray/black market economy that surrounded Shakedown Street,” Revere said. “As an artisan, and as a psychonaut, and someone who was experimenting – I was fascinated.”

It wasn’t long before he moved from ceramics to glass, and his path unfolded. A decade later, he founded Revere Glass – a multi-discipline school and educational hub that pioneered the concept of training both functional and classical glassblowing and crafting.

A devotee of all manner of glass and metal manipulation and fabrication, his school and YouTube channel – On the Torch – has had a tremendous impact on the industry.

“When you’re staring at the flame, you don’t have space in your mind for anything else, so you end up meditating without even realizing it,” he said.

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Swan Glass is spinning some serious heat out of Seattle! Born and raised in the Emerald City, Aaron Swanson started blowing glass at Sammamish High School and was always interested in crafting and glass as an art, long before he started making pipes. Now when he’s not holed up making headies at Pipe Place Market, he works part-time at the Seattle Glassblowing Studio and teaches lampworking classes at Pratt Fine Arts Center.

SWAN SAYS his style is all about, “Capturing the best colors of the glass and utilizing flowing, curving shapes influenced by ornamental filigree scrollwork.” You can see this highly detailed technique showing out on his collab with Walmot Glass, another Seattle-based artist known for his bloopers and recyclers. The filigree scrollwork is done using glass with silver-reducing properties, which change the color of the surface once blown. Then, Swan sketches out the design by hand, carefully carving away with a diamond-tipped Dremel to reveal contrasting colors.

With a few styles up his sleeve, Swan calls the design on this orange and blue Hydrant Blooper his “lace pattern.” This complex method layers colors together, pulling them into a twisted latticino cane that is used to build up the wall of the piece. With rich color palettes inspired by the Pacific Northwest, intricate designs unique to each piece and function that absolutely shreds, you don’t want to sleep on Swan Glass!

You can see more of his work or reach out about customs at @swanglass. We also gotta show love to Jamie Zill, a badass female photographer who took these shots and is also based in Seatown.