This week Wes and Todd sit down with Master Glass Designer, Painter, and Fabricator, Maria Sheets. Maria discusses her childhood growing up in a Russian Orthodox church, some of her Russian family history, her art education, her journey as an Art Conservator, how her experience in art conservation informs her glass work, her experience with the Museum of Biblical Art, starting her own art conservation business, working with liturgical glass, her start in doing her glass work, her grandmother, her family’s roots in art glass and ceramics manufacturing, resilience & optimism, art being her religion, Agnes Martin, Scottish Stained Glass, research & glass design, halo history, iconography, breaking the rules, the provenance of liturgical artifacts, weird things she’s been asked to create, social-political imagery, Judy Chicago, early female anarchists/activists, science, conserving & restoring art, living to open the kiln in the morning, material science, art safety, process, her latest exhibition “Out Of Our Hands,” artificial intelligence, and her basic rule of success.

Join us for a remarkable and educational conversation with Maria Sheets!

Check out Maria’s extraordinary work at her website www.mariasheetsglassworks.com

Follow Maria Sheets on social media:

Instagram - www.instagram.com/mariavalentinasheets/

@mariavalentinasheets

Facebook - www.facebook.com/maria.sheets

Check out Maria’s work in person at:

Valkarie Gallery – www.valkariefineart.com

Scottish Stained Glass – www.scottishstainedglass.com