Artist

Truda "TJ" Mendenhall comes up with the intricate handpainted designs for Fenton handcrafted glass beads and Teardrop earrings. She strives to create innovating and on-trend designs for our line of wearable art glass jewelry. Each collection offers her a challenge to create something unique that will coordinate well with the current fashions and build on Fenton's existing color palette.

Jena Lane Blair is a designer of the handcrafted glass jewelry at Fenton Art Glass, located in Williamstown, WV.

Jena creates the lovely designs for the glass beads used in our bracelets, earrings and necklaces. She is always striving to create new, innovating designs and styles of wearable art glass jewelry.

Visitors at Fenton Art Glass watch in awe as glass artisan Frank Workman sits at his finisher's bench and carefully applies a molten thread of glass to a vase. Within a few minutes, Frank has deftly fashioned the thread into an intricate zigzag pattern whose bright color contrasts perfectly with the hue of the vase. His audience applauds as Frank holds the vase aloft momentarily for all to see.

As a child of six, Stacy Williams began creating designs in pen and ink or watercolors. Later, she won awards in art competitions sponsored by 4-H and taught painting to teens and provided illustrations for children's books during her college years.

Robin Spindler, known as ''J.K. Spindler'' to those who collect Fenton glass, says she is the ''serious one'' among the Fenton decoration design group.

Many Fenton artists honed their skills under Louise Piper's watchful eyes. They fondly recall her as a demanding teacher and a talented, good-humored artist.

Frank O. Myers, Fenton's First Basket Handler About 1900, glassworker Frank O. Myers got his start at a glass factory in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the very same plant where our company's founder, Frank L. Fenton, had begun as a glass decorator in 1897.

A loyal member of American Flint Glass Workers Local Union No. 71, Myers became an apprentice, first learning to gather glass and, before long, mastering pressing and blowing operations.

Artists Kelsey Murphy and Robert Bomkamp call their southern West Virginia studio "Made in Heaven," and the name is an apt one, indeed. Collectors and museums alike have come to regard Kelsey and Robert's work as "heavenly!"