Glass Studio

Bill Glass, Jr. and Demos Glass - Artists

"Little People Cave", Glass Studio

Art Installation, Siloam Springs Cherokee Casino

"Fish Dreams"

Demos Glass, 2007

"Fire and Water" Demos Glass

fabricated pewter and padauk

​​Demos Glass

ART EDUCATION:

1994-1999 - Fine Arts Program, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois

2001-2002 - Welding, Northeast Oklahoma Training Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma


SPECIAL EXHIBITS:

January 2003 - Metalworks: Containers of Form, Function and Beauty, Heard Museum North, Scottsdale, Arizona

October 2005 - Changing Hands, Part 2, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York


PUBLICATIONS:

2005 - "Changing Hands: Art without Reservation 2", Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York


AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

2019 - Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, Two "War and Peace Feathers", stainless steel/ceramic, 6'x2'x2', Tahlequah Cherokee Casino, Tahlequah, Ok.
2019 - Glass Studio, commissioned by Cherokee Nation Businesses to select and manage a team of Cherokee artists with various skills to install the concept of The Cherokee migration story from Turtle Island in the Cherokee Capital Museum stairwell and lobby of second floor. Courthouse square downtown Tahlequah, Ok.
2015 - Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, developed and created a stainless sculpture for Cherokee Nation Roland Casino that is suspended from the ceiling.
2013 - Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, developed and carved aluminum plates of clan symbols for Quapaw Nation, Downstream Casino, Joplin, MO.
2013 - Commissioned to design and fabricate Miss Cherokee crown. 2014-2016 Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, created three stainless steel with ceramic inlay prayer feathers. Commissioned by Cherokee Nation, two for medical clinics in Salina, OK and Sallisaw, OK. One feather sits in front of the chapel at Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, OK.
2012 - Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, developed two architectural sculptures for Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Ramona, OK. These sculptures stand 46’ and 49’ high.

2011  Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, developed and produced a conceptual “Little People Village” for Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Siloam Springs Casino, Siloam Springs, OK.

​2010  Commissioned to design and fabricate Miss Keetoowah crown.
June 2009 - Best of Show, Masters of Influence 2009, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma

August 2008 - 3rd Place Jewelry, 3rd Annual Cherokee National Holiday Art Show, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

July 2008 - 1st Place Sculpture, Competitive Show, Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee, Oklahoma

July 2007 - 1st Place Sculpture, Competitive Show, Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee Oklahoma, Holiday Art Show

August 2006 - Best of Show Award, 1st Annual Cherokee National Holiday Art Show, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

June 2006 - Best of Division Award, Sculpture, Red Earth Indian Art Show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

May 2006 - 1st Place Sculpture, 35th Annual Trail of Tears Show, Cherokee Nation Heritage Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

October 2002 - First Place Jewelry, 7th Annual Cherokee Homecoming Art Show, Cherokee Nation Heritage Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

September 2002 - Merit Award Sculpture, Fourteenth Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show, Lawrence, Kansas

July 2002 - 2nd Place Sculpture, The Five Civilized Tribes Museum Art Show, Muskogee, Oklahoma

April 2002 - 1st Place Metals, Art Under the Oaks, Muskogee, Oklahoma

June 2001 - 1st Place Mixed Media Sculpture, Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market, Indianapolis, Indiana

May 2001 - Special Merit Award Miniatures, 30th Annual Trail of Tears Art Show, Cherokee Nation Heritage Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

June 1999 - 1st Place Sculpture, Red Earth Art Show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

March 1999 - Wagoner Metals Award, Undergraduate Art Show, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois

April 1998 - 1st Place Metals, Art Under the Oaks, Muskogee, Oklahoma