"Rising Seas" by Lin McJunkin

It's getting harder to ignore the seas that are rising all around the world. 21” x 4” x 2", 10 lbs. 2020. Pate de verre glass, steel armature.

San Francisco native Lin McJunkin entered the warm glass art world through traditional stained glass. The gift of a small kiln hooked her on glass’s narrative potential, and after many years’ experimentation and a summer at Pilchuck International Glass School, she employs four glass-forming techniques: cluster-fused, cast, kiln-carved, and pate de verre. This online work primarily features cluster-fused glass utilizing broken clusters of tempered glass.

Backpacking and canoeing throughout the world has given her an intimate perspective on the social, cultural, and environmental needs of Earth's citizens. A science educator for 20 years, Lin eventually became the Science Curriculum Coordinator for the Corvallis, Oregon, School District, working on grants with the EPA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science to write outcomes-based science standards for state and local districts. Because of this work, she usually focuses the heat of her environmental convictions, as well as that of her glass kilns and metal torches, on work that advocates for the health of our planet and its inhabitants.

Lin brings over 30 years’ experience in the glass art and business world to her work. Alone or in collaboration with metal sculptor Milo White, she has work in the permanent collections of local municipalities such as Langley, La Conner, Anacortes, Lynnwood, Mount Vernon, Arlington, and Olympia, as well as in many other private and public art projects around the world. She is currently working with the Cities of Bellingham, Lynnwood and the Yakama Nation in Roslyn, WA to create large public art sculptures for their communities.

You can find more of the artist's work at www.mcjunkinglass.com.