Linnea Wong
Linnea Wong lights up her torch, adjusts her safety glasses, and aims the flaming torch at the end of a long, slender glass rod. Soon, a bead of liquid glass forms. Wong deftly applies the molten glass to a thin metal rod. This is the beginning of a unique, handcrafted glass bead. She adds thin layers and tiny dots of colored liquid glass. The colors begin to emerge. The bead is finished and placed in a kiln to cool slowly so that it won’t crack when exposed to the cool air of her studio.
This tiny bead is a small sample of Wong’s art glass magic. Wong’s glass creations include jewelry, functional pieces and sculpture. She also is versatile in ceramics, jewelry-making, metal working, furniture design and graphic design. Her glass works range from luminous fused glass plates with swirling inner light, and nature oriented glass “paintings.” Wong’s strongest designs are graceful and confident with Scandinavian and Asian influence. Since graduating from the California College of Arts in Oakland, CA, Wong has worked primarily as a free-lance graphic designer. At CCA she majored in graphic design and minored in ceramics.
Wong arrived in Davis in November 1996. Her work has become more sophisticated, simpler in many ways.
Linnea’s studio is Design with Fire in West Sacramento. Linnea teaches numerous glass and jewelry classes at her spacious facility.
