Technique:
Cheryl works inside the kiln in a way that’s different from anyone else, creating glass that captures not only light but movement – moments in time. Everything starts with sheets of colored glass, or the same glass crushed to varying degrees – from which she creates an endless variety of spectacularly unique glass, layered like a quilt, until the glass says it’s ready. She has been known to take a hammer to a sheet of freshly made glass, and then re-fire the shards to create her gravity defying, crystalline worlds. She experiments constantly – and still has never found a rule she didn’t want to break. That’s why her studio is called Imagine That! Glass – because in the imagination, there are no rules.
Training:
Cheryl Sattler has been working in glass since 1999. She attended art school as a writer, wanting to understand print as an image. After taking classes in typography, graphic design, photography, drawing, and other media, she discovered she was in love with both words and pictures, and she works in both worlds to this day. She tried on many other media including drawing, painting, and printmaking before glass found her in 1999. She has had the opportunity to study with many masters in the field: Steve Klein, Bob Leatherbarrow, Kathleen Sheard, Brock Craig, Avery Anderson, Newy Fagan, Doug Randall, Richard LaLonde, and many more.

Selected Exhibitions & Awards:
Two-Person Show: Transparent Spectrum, Gadsden Arts Center, 2010
Art in Gasdsen, 2009
Vitreous Forms: Contemporary Glass Art, Mattie Kelly Arts Center 2009
Five Rings of Passion: Summer Annual of the Artists League, Tallahassee 2009
Art in Gasdsen, 2008
Go Green: Summer Annual of the Artists League, Tallahassee 2008
Solo Show: Greater Reston Art Center, 2006
Annual Shows of the Greater Washington Area Art Glass Association 2004, 2005, 2006
The Art of Love, Diddywopps & Keeffers, 2005
Transformed by Fire: Glass Today. Target Gallery of Torpedo Factory Art Center, 2004
Solo Show: The Art of Fire, Alexandria, VA 2003