SaraSally LaGrand - artist 

Sara Sally LaGrand is a living, breathing, almost starving American glass artist with her fingers in too many pies. In addition to creating sculptures, writing about glass artists and teaching students to work with glass from beginners to advanced, she is a mom, Nonna and Bis Nonna as well a a dog mom. It’s a busy life, but very fulfilling.

She hold a BA in Glass Formation from Park University, Parkville, MO through a special program created for her by the art chair Donna Bachman with Professor Dierk Van Keppel of Rock Cottage Glassworks. She has studied with Italian masters, Lucia Santini, Mauro Vianello, Vittorio Costantini and Lucio Bubacco.

ABOUT

Honors include awards from Art Westport, Kansas City, State of the Arts, Prairie Village, KS, Bead Museum of Washington, DC, Bead and Button magazine, Images Art Gallary, and the Kansas City Artists Coalition, Best in Show, Molten, a National Glass and Metals Show, Chicago, IL.   She has taught flameworking all over the world including Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Tennessee, Unikal Glas in Switzerland, Tuffnell Studio in Rudston, England, Terminal City Glass, Vancouver, Canada, BeadFX, Toronto, Canada and many private studios all over the US.  She has been a presenter at the glass symposium at Sars-Poteries, France.
Her work has been published in many books and magazines including The Flow, Bead and Button, Glass Art Magazine. 

Her work can be found in public and private collections around the world. It’s so much fun talking about yourself like you are someone else…..