About Chris Rogahn, Artist

Chris Rogahn lives (and loves) to make things!

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Chris has now moved to Delaware and built her own glassblowing and welding studio in her new backyard.

She handcrafts a variety of items including handblown furnace glass, kilnformed glass, lampworked glass and funky, folky stained glass! (If you haven’t guessed, she likes glass!)

She has another studio in her basement where she creates jewelry using glass, silver, copper, enamel and more. Here she also makes whimsical kilnformed ornaments, magnets, and glass dishware.

In her own words:

I just like making stuff! I have been working with glass for the last 20 years and have been creating things for as long as I can remember. I have yet to meet a material that I haven’t liked!

 

I’ve come to this “Art” thing a bit later in life. No one ever told me you could study Art in college, so I got a degree in Biology. What was I thinking? Anyway, I finally figured it out.

 

Before I moved to Delaware, I worked for 20 years in the Art Department of Bucks County Community College. In addition to my studies there, I have studied at the Corning Museum of Glass, Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Vitrum Studios, Tuscarora Lapidary Society and a Bronze Art Foundry, as well as taking many other private classes.

 

I’m grateful that I can now be a full-time artist. I hope to see you at an art show soon!