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Elizabeth Hopkins (nee Haesche) is a native of Cheshire, Connecticut. She
received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Muhlenburg College and attended the
Master of Fine Arts program for acting at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Up until recently she worked full-time as a supervisor of legal assistants at a
large law firm and lived in Long Branch, New Jersey. Three years ago she left
her “day job” and relocated to Feasterville, Pennsylvania with her
husband.
After spending her early life exploring a variety of arts and
crafts, Elizabeth turned her attention to glass in 1997. Fascinated by the
texture, form and color potential of glass, Elizabeth began studying lampworking
with renowned glass artists Leah Fairbanks, Sally Prasch, Emilio Santini and
Loren Stump. Blending the interpretative and creative skills she honed in her
years as an actress and the eye for detail and color she developed in her years
of knitting, cross stitch, needlepoint and beadwork, she has developed her own
unique style in glass creations that are at once playful and
elegant.
Elizabeth shows her work at numerous juried arts and crafts
shows in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
Among her awards are first place in crafts at the 2006 Peddlers Village Fine
Arts & Contemporary Craft Show, the 2004 New Hope Outdoors Arts and Crafts
Festival and the 2004 New London (Connecticut) Waterfront Arts Festival.
Her work may also be seen at the Accent Studio in Haddonfield, New
Jersey, La Femme Jolie in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mechanic Street Mugs in New
Hope, Pennsylvania, Mostly Glass Gallery (on the web), Pat King’s in Manayunk,
Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Village Silver in Princeton and
Bridgewater, New Jersey.
Elizabeth was featured in the February 2005
issue of Lapidary Journal with a "Step by Step" article on making flowered
beads. In addition to appearing in galleries, boutiques and Arts and Crafts
shows. Elizabeth also offers classes in lampworking, most recently at Salem
Community College in Carneys Point, New Jersey and Markeim Art Center in
Haddonfield, New Jersey. Elizabeth is a member of the International Society of
Glass Bead Makers.
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