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  Artist
Biography:
Terri
Stickles Strunck Fused
Glass Artist Murphys,
California
Terri
was born and raised in San Mateo, CA, where as a young girl, her
dream was not in the area of art, but quite the opposite, in sports.
After winning a Bronze Medal in the 1964 Olympic Games in Swimming, she
went to college, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South America,
and was the first female Police Officer at a department in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was only after she, her
husband Bob and son Chris moved to Murphys, CA in 1985, that the world of
art began to enter her life.
Terri
realized that she had a desire to be creative, the missing link in
her otherwise polar opposite life to date. She started taking glass
art classes, as glass had always fascinated her. From the time she
was a little girl she would watch, mesmerized for hours, the hot
glass sculpture exhibitions at the county fair.
For
several years Terri studied techniques in stained glass, glass
mosaics, torchwork beads, and glass fusing, but it was in this last
glass medium that she found her niche. She acquired a glass kiln and
has been mostly self-taught, always experimenting with new glass,
shapes, styles, and fusing techniques. “It is like Christmas morning when I
get up and hurry into the studio to open the kiln to see what I have
made!”, said Terri, since the kiln has to cool overnight.
Terri
is retired, and at the age of 65, feels that she is reinventing
herself, and is now pursuing "the other half of my life!" Her work
is permanently exhibited at the Calaveras Arts Council “Gallery
Calaveras” in San Andreas, CA, she is a member of the Calaveras Gem and
Mineral Society, in Angels Camp, CA, and the Calaveras Integrated Artisans of Arnold, CA. She also has been exhibiting and selling her 'wearable art' at arts and
crafts shows since 2007, where her work has been very well received.
Terri's husband Bob has taken an interest in her art glass, and is now
her studio assistant.
Copyright 2009, Terri Strunck - All rights Reserved |
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