Accent Art Glass Presents: About the Artist
Based in Culpeper, Virginia, Parker Stafford constructed his technically advanced glass blowing
studio from the shell of a former ice cream shop. There he has produced stunning and unique blown and solid
forms of art glass.
The thing that’s really interesting to me about glass is the fact that it’s been around for like
4500 years, possibly as long as 5000 years, and yet the American Studio Glass movement started the year I was born.
Up until that time everything was in factories. That was part of the tradition and everything was very hush-hush
because of the technical finesse or expertise that’s required.
In fact it was a typical factory situation that you would have five people on one piece.
It was compartmentalized so no one person knew how to make a piece from beginning to end.
-Parker Stafford