Allan Jaworski

Allan Jaworski is a retired aerospace systems architect and project manager, a former Vice President of a major aerospace company.   He first learned to fuse glass at the Glen Echo Art Glass Center, acquiring glass kilns, tools, and cold working equipment.  Allan has since studied glass fusing, casting, cold working, and blowing at the Corning Studio, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Vitrum Studio, and the Glen Echo Glassblowing Studio.  He has been a teaching assistant at the Corning Studio. He works using a variety of glass manipulation techniques often combining kiln fusing, hot glass manipulation, and cold work (e.g., carving glass using a diamond wheel).

His inspirations are his travels, his background as a Ph.D.  mathematician, and the works of Klause Moje and Carlo Scarpa.  His greatest joy is to see colors mix and flow in hot glass. 

Allan is Membership Chair of the National Capital Art Glass Guild (NCAGG), a James Renwick Alliance member, and a Board Member and Treasurer of the Washington, DC Creative Crafts Council (CCC).  He has exhibited in many shows sponsored by NCAGG and the CCC.

Allan has many styles of glass work.  His blown glass work includes rollups that combine fusing glass in a kiln and then manipulating it in a glass blowing environment, reduction glass patterns, incalmo, murrini, and diamond wheel texturing.  His other work has included glass weaving, complex line mosaics, dynamic patterns and highly reflective polished shapes.