BIOGRAPHY

Glass artist, Julie Conway is the owner and de­signer of Illuminata, a glass design studio cr­eat­ing functional and sculptural glass art works. Since 1997, Julie’s passion for glass has led her to explore the boundless forms of her medium utilizing her skills in the creation of hot, blown glass, lampworked glass forms, and cast glass sculpture. Combining her tra­ditional know­ledge from her studies with European masters, and her contemporary artistic vision with the design of function, her work is dynamic and revo­lutionary.

Julie continually expands her studies and works inter­nationally with glass masters from Murano, in Venice, Italy, the Czech Republic, France and the US, granting her oppor­tunities to be a teacher assistant in inter­national glass schools in Venice, and Istanbul. Her trips abroad teach her much about the deep-rooted history of the me­dium of glass and allow her to bridge this tra­dition with contemporary design.

With the combination of many styles of glass making, Julie custom designs glass chan­deliers, light fixtures, func­tional works, and unique sculpture. She collaborates on an ongoing basis with arch­itects and designers to create extra­ordinary lighted glassworks and in­stall­ations.

Works from Studio Illuminata are featured in design showrooms, art galleries, award-winning homes, hotels, museums, and pri­vate collections. Julie’s unique style has attracted several awards for design, lighting, and artistic accomplishment.

Studio Illuminata currently shows work in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Atlanta. Julie exhibits works, creates in­stall­ations, and custom commissions, and lectures world­wide. She is also a vital member of her local artist community, currently based in Omaha, Nebraska.