by Vicki Schneider

Photography by Lucy Lyon, Addison Doty, Nancy Callan, Russell Johnson, Tim Matthews, Rozarri Lynch

Artists often must consider economic realities when designing and producing their glass artwork. Glass artists Lucy Lyon, Nancy Callan, Heather Robyn Matthews, and Kait Rhoads share how they balance the frequently conflicting drivers of creativity versus salability, what impact economics has on them and their work, and how their attitude toward salability might have changed over the years.