Harvey Littleton
The father of American studio glass trained in Michigan before launching the movement in 1962.
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Littleton was born in Corning, New York. He studied at the University of Michigan and Cranbrook, earning his industrial design degree at Michigan in 1947 and an MFA at Cranbrook in 1951. He also co-founded a design studio in Ann Arbor.
His 1962 glassblowing workshops at the Toledo Museum of Art are considered the start of the American studio glass movement. He launched a hot glass program at the University of Wisconsin in the years that followed.