Ed and Martha Biggar are a team: teaching, working, farming, and living in
Southwest Virginia. We have a hot glass studio and teaching facility, The Art
Works Studio, in Chilhowie, and live in Draper, where we create our flame-
worked, fused, and silver pieces, while maintaining our beef cow/calf herd,
and just lately, our horses and donkey.
Ed has been working in glass for over three decades, starting with an art
major at Oregon State University in the early 1970s. He currently serves as
an instructor, technical consultant, and freelance writer for The Flow and now
for Glass Craftsman. In the past, Ed has written for Sign Builder Illustrated
and the Neon News magazines. He is the proprietor of his own studio,
Artneon, and serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Pulaski,
Virginia’s Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley. He has exhibited both
nationally as well as internationally and is the recipient of numerous awards
for his mixed media sculptures featuring elements of glass and light, including
neon.
Martha took a BFA in design in the early 80s, and began concentrating in
jewelry in 1992, Precious Metal Clay in 2000, and now treats glass as jewelry
in tandem with metal clay. She partners with Ed in writing magazine articles,
and has an upcoming article in Glass Craftsman about teaching glass to
middle school students. One of Martha's metal clay sculptures, a silver
mask, was selected for exhibition with the New River '07 Show at Virginia
Tech in October.
Between the two, Ed and Martha Biggar have over forty years of experience
with glass. Both teach at their studio in Chilhowie, Virginia, The Art Works
Studio, as well as other venues including the Jacksonville Center, Floyd, VA,
Corning Studio, Corning, NY, Urban Glass, NYC, and the Bead and Button
Show, Milwaukee, WI. Besides making time for their own artwork, the couple
maintains a beef cow herd on their farm in Draper, Virginia.
Southwest Virginia. We have a hot glass studio and teaching facility, The Art
Works Studio, in Chilhowie, and live in Draper, where we create our flame-
worked, fused, and silver pieces, while maintaining our beef cow/calf herd,
and just lately, our horses and donkey.
Ed has been working in glass for over three decades, starting with an art
major at Oregon State University in the early 1970s. He currently serves as
an instructor, technical consultant, and freelance writer for The Flow and now
for Glass Craftsman. In the past, Ed has written for Sign Builder Illustrated
and the Neon News magazines. He is the proprietor of his own studio,
Artneon, and serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Pulaski,
Virginia’s Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley. He has exhibited both
nationally as well as internationally and is the recipient of numerous awards
for his mixed media sculptures featuring elements of glass and light, including
neon.
Martha took a BFA in design in the early 80s, and began concentrating in
jewelry in 1992, Precious Metal Clay in 2000, and now treats glass as jewelry
in tandem with metal clay. She partners with Ed in writing magazine articles,
and has an upcoming article in Glass Craftsman about teaching glass to
middle school students. One of Martha's metal clay sculptures, a silver
mask, was selected for exhibition with the New River '07 Show at Virginia
Tech in October.
Between the two, Ed and Martha Biggar have over forty years of experience
with glass. Both teach at their studio in Chilhowie, Virginia, The Art Works
Studio, as well as other venues including the Jacksonville Center, Floyd, VA,
Corning Studio, Corning, NY, Urban Glass, NYC, and the Bead and Button
Show, Milwaukee, WI. Besides making time for their own artwork, the couple
maintains a beef cow herd on their farm in Draper, Virginia.
| Ed and Martha Biggar PO Box 323, 4390 Academy Street Draper, VA 24324 artneon@psknet.com marthabiggar@yahoo.com 276-620-8595 All rights reserved. |
Ed and Martha Biggar
Part of the ongoing night-time
Neon show in the front of The
Art Works Studio in Chilhowie,
with a flame-working student at
the torch in the background.
Neon show in the front of The
Art Works Studio in Chilhowie,
with a flame-working student at
the torch in the background.
Ed and Lino Tagliapietra at a
workshop at the Corning
Studio in the fall of 2006.
workshop at the Corning
Studio in the fall of 2006.
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