Vicki Schneider:

Artist & Instructor

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Exploring and passing on the art of flameworking glass

Career Highlights

Vicki is proud that her Waiting for Cinderella (2025) and Mama’s Tulip Garden (2021) were juried into the Art in Craft Media biennial exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

Glass art tulips with green stems on a piece of wood, set against a dark background.

Mama’s Tulip Garden, 2021
Exhibited at the Burchfield Penney Art Center

Explore Vicki's Art

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Image source: Buffalorising.com

Vicki Schneider was recognized by Glassation Art Community as one of “18 Game-Changing Female Glass Artists.” Her work has appeared on the cover of The Flow magazine and in numerous editions of its Annual Gallery of Women in Glass. Profiles on her and her work appeared in Glass Art and The Flow magazines. She has been juried into prestigious gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and the UK, and in 2018 she was awarded first place in the flameworked glass category at the Delphi Glass Online Art Glass Festival.

Various colorful flowers displayed on tree stumps inside a wire mesh enclosure, with informational signs on the ground.

Twenty-three of Vicki’s glass flowers were on display for six weeks at Lumagination2020, held at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, where attendees—and even insects—often mistook them for real blooms.

Close-up of white daisies with yellow centers, one of which has a bee on it, against a dark background.

Flowers on display at Lumagination 2020,
Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens.
Notice the puzzled insects in the photos on the right.

A person’s hand touching a bright yellow flower with ruffled petals, with a red mimicry flower and a small insect perched on it, against a dark background.

Vicki was honored to be a feature writer for Glass Art magazine for five years, during which time she authored profiles about emerging and established artists. She also conceptualized and spearheaded a column entitled “Artist to Artist” in which artists from varying glass specialties shared their perspectives on important issues related to their lives and practices.

In 2020, Vicki was featured in Glass Art in a profile titled “Independent Artist Vicki Schneider: From Executive to Hot Glass Sculptor”.

How It All Started

“At the age of ten, I visited the Corning Museum of Glass, sitting for hours watching ‘magicians’ transform glass into graceful, glistening sculptures. The awe I felt as a child is with me every day as I work at my torch.“

Image: Corning Museum Facebook

Raised in a small town in New Jersey, the Garden State, Vicki Schneider has always felt an affinity for nature, marveling at its beauty and intricate designs.

A young boy at the beach sitting on the sand, holding a small shovel and toy, with beach chairs and people relaxing in the background.

A young girl in a ballet tutu raises her arms above her head, standing on one foot outdoors near bushes on a sunny day.

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A young child dressed in a playful mouse costume, including large mouse ears, is standing on a grassy backyard lawn, smiling at the camera.

Vicki says that, at first, sculpting flowers in soda-lime glass was beyond her reach, but through experience, experimentation, and tenacity, she succeeded. She has built on her studies with years of practice and exploration, continually pushing the natural limits of glass and accomplishing what most soft glass artists find impossible.

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Fifty years after her first visit to the Corning Museum of Glass, Vicki returned there to begin her studies. She has studied with some of the world's most highly respected lampworking artists, including Lucio Bubacco, Loren Stump, Emilio Santini, Bronwen Heilman, and Wesley Fleming.

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Made in New York Exhibit at Schweinfurth Art Center, 2023

Vicki Schneider’s work combines technical mastery with artistic innovation, earning recognition in leading glass art publications and exhibitions.

Her life-like representations of flowers grace galleries and homes of private collectors throughout the United States.

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Installing Vicki’s artwork at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, 2026

Explore Vicki's Art

Founding Expressive Glass

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The very first class held at Expressive Glass Studio, October 2009

“I have been teaching something to someone since the age of four. In 2009, I opened Expressive Glass, a 9-torch teaching studio in Buffalo, New York, to share my passion for glass with novice and skilled glassworkers.

‍I’m honored and humbled to pass on this centuries- old art form to students who develop their own love affair with glass.”

A man with a bald head and glasses, wearing a white shirt, is working with tools at a craft or jewelry-making station. Two women are standing behind him, observing him work. The woman on the left has short hair, glasses, and is wearing earrings, while the woman on the right has curly hair, sunglasses, and is holding a notebook. The workspace is set against a brick wall decorated with framed artwork, and various tools and materials are on the table.

Emilio Santini, a renowned glass artist, originally from Murano, Italy with a 500+ year family glassmaking tradition, sharing his expertise with students at Vicki’s studio.

Two women, wearing protective glasses, are working together on a scientific or technological experiment involving a small robotic device with wires and lights, in a laboratory setting.

Bronwen Heilman, an artist recognized for her reverse vitreous enamel painting, sharing her expertise during a in-person flameworking class at Expressive Glass.

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Loren Stump, Vicki’s first international instructor, showcasing how he creates and combines the components of a face into a complex murrini.

Where to Find Vicki’s Work

Expressive
Glass

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Buffalo, NY — Vicki’s teaching studio

Shops at the Corning Museum of Glass

Display case featuring a black and white photo of Vicki Schneider and a floral arrangement with white flowers and green leaves in a piece of driftwood.

Corning, NY

Edgewood Orchard Galleries

Interior of a room with stone walls, wooden window frames, and a landscape painting hanging on the wall. A glass sculpture of a bird and a decorative vase are on the surface, with a small bouquet of daisies in a pot near the window. Outside the window, trees and a yard are visible.

Fish Creek, WI

Seattle Glassblowing Studio

Glass display case with colorful glass art sculptures of flowers and animals, including tulips, roses, and butterflies, on a wooden base, inside a well-lit room.

Seattle, WA

Pollack Glass
Studio & Gallery

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New Orleans, LA

Museum of American Glass at WheatonArts

Display of decorative glass vases with flowers and rocks on white pedestals in a gallery or store setting.

Millville, NJ

Check out Vicki’s YouTube Channel

Over 1.6 million people have watched this video of how Vicki made an implosion marble of an underwater reef.