About Artist Carrie Strope 
When Carrie's not firing it up in the glass studio, she's reading everything she can about techniques and trends in glass. As enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge as she is about expanding her own talents, Carrie teaches classes in mosaic, stained glass and fused glass to both children and adults and is launching the first-ever kiln-formed glass program at the LUX Center for the Arts in her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. Carrie's headlong rush into the creative life started at home where she crocheted with her grandmother, quilted with her mother and worked alongside her dad in his woodshop.
Carrie Strope was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska where she attended college and obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Horticulture before moving to the Napa Valley to work in the wine industry. After a few years, she realized that she preferred drinking wine to the hours involved in making it. However, it was during this time that she started taking classes at the local college and pursuing an interest in art that had always taken a back seat. While taking classes in oil painting, mixed media, web design and photoshop, she stumbled upon a glass studio where she walked into a beginning fusing class and simply refused to leave!
Carrie's artwork incorporates a love of quilting and bright colors she inherited from her mother, who was an avid quilter before passing away from ovarian cancer in 2006. She loves the meditational quality of cutting sheets of glass into several tiny pieces, and then putting them back together to form new patterns.
"I love exploring light, shadow, depth and dimension in playing with layers of glass." ~ Carrie Strope
Meet Carrie and view her work at CalyxGlass.