Leah Nietz

Born in 1979, South Dakota USA

Currently lives and works in Wayne, Ohio

Teaching and Instruction

2004 – 2008 Introduction to Lampwork Glass Instructor, Toledo Museum of Art.

March 2013 Twisted Shamrock Mandala Tutorial, The Soda Lime Times  

February 2016 Energy Vessel Tutorial,  The Soda Lime Times 

December 2016 Partial Implosion Dahlia Tutorial, Glass Line

November 2018 Vessel class online Facebook private group Leah Nietz Lampwork Glass Studio

April 2020 Vessels and Bottles online class premiering during the ISGB Gathering

June 2021 Blown Pendants, Vessels and Bottles, Snow Farm, MA

June 2021 Sea Creatures, Snow Farm, MA

March 2023 Mandalas, Public Glass Works, KS

March 2023 Vessels and Bottles, Public Glass Works, KS

September 2023 Blown Pendants, Vessels and Bottles, Snow Farm, MA

Education

Introduction to Lampwork class at The Bead Factory in Tacoma, WA 2002, 

Private murini session with Gini Behrendt 2004. 

Three Private hot shop sessions at Gathered Glass in Toledo, OH with Eli Lippman  2018

Goblets with Igor Balbi at The Corning Museum of Glass 2019

Selected Exhibitions

2004, 2005, 2006, 2021: Black Swamp Art Festival, OH 

2005, 2006: Crosby Festival of the Arts, Crosby Botanical Gardens, OH

2019 Summer and Autumn Exhibition, Red Moon Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2020 Commemorative Artist for the ISGB Gathering 

2021 Copper Moon Studio Gallery, Toledo, OH

2022 ISGB Susan Richards Presidential Collection, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Selected Publications

Bead & Button Magazine, October 2006, pg. 40

A Beading Mecca: Bead & Button Magazine, December 2007, pg. 119

“Vessels” by Jennifer Short : Jewelry Affaire Magazine, Vol. 3 Issue 3, Autumn 2012, pg. 44-46

The Soda Lime Times, Cover, November 2012

The Soda Lime Times, Cover, February 2016 

Bead Dreams: Bead & Button Magazine, October 2016, pg. 17

Glass Art® magazine, September/October 2022, pg. 61

Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine, 9th Edition, December 2022, pg. 81

Collections

Works held in Private collections in countries throughout the world including the United States, Canada, Malaysia, The United Kingdom, Australia, Israel and Singapore.