About Our Art
My career as a glass artist started so innocently. In 2009 I took a class at a local community center. The hands-on transformation of a clear piece of glass to a colorful finished work of art still amazes me today. Opening my cooled down kiln in the morning after a 1465 degree firing is like opening a gift.
As all glass artists will tell you, sometimes a piece doesn’t make it. However, the broken chards have a future, too. Some of my best abstracts are from “failures”. But when hours of being bent over a work-in-progress finally comes together, it’s automatically my new favorite piece ever made! And I can’t wait to see it find a loving home and be enjoyed for decades to come.
This is especially true of my memorial pieces. Being trusted with a loved one’s remains is a profound honor. Creating a forever keepsake is one of my greatest joys.
Glass art truly has no boundaries. It requires a combination of so many skills including some engineering feats tossed in just to keep me on my toes. Whether it’s a single tile created as a pet portrait using fine glass powder or a multi-layered sculptural piece, each requires patience, dedication, and respect for the process. Cutting corners never works out. Chards happen!
Over the years, I have continued to learn and grow my skills. My relentless journey to become the best I can be has all led to many awards and other significant recognition from the art community including being featured on the PBS TV show “Making”.
I am honored to be a juried member of The Best of Missouri Hands and also a juried member of Summit Art in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. I also have pieces on display in several galleries in Florida and Missouri.
I am really thankful to every collector who supports my work, vision, and creative spirit.
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Short Description:
Animals and nature captured forever in fused glass
Awards and Honors
Most recent awards and honors:
- Artistic Merit Award – Mid-Missouri Artists Fine Art Show, Warrensburg, MO – 2024
- First place in 3D-Sculpture – Blue Springs Fine Art Show, Blue Springs, MO ‐ 2022
- Artistic Excellence Award – Mid-Missouri Artists Fine Art Show, Warrensburg, MO – 2022
- Artistic Merit Award – Mid-Missouri Artists Fine Art Show, Warrensburg, MO – 2022
- Honorable Mention in Animal/Wildlife and Honorable Mention in Mixed Media – Blue Springs Fine Art Show, Blue Springs, MO – 2021
- First place in Mixed Media – Raytown Artists Association Annual Invitational, Raytown, MO – 2019
- Second place in Animal/Wildlife – Town & Country Art League Show – Pleasant Hill, MO – 2019
- Third place in Professional category – Mid-Missouri Artists Fine Arts Show – Warrensburg, MO – 2019
- First place in Sculpture – Town & Country Art League Show, Pleasant Hill, MO – 2017
- Third place in Kiln-Formed Glass – Delphi Art Glass Online Show – 2016
Other Shows:
- Images Art Gallery – Glass Explosion Exhibit featuring 8 local glass artists – November 15 – December 15, 2024
- Barb Byrne Glass Solo Exhibit – Fillmore Café at Unity Village – October 1-31, 2024
- Summit Art Exhibit – Powell Gardens Botanical Gardens – April through December 2024, April through December 2023
- Best of Missouri Hands On the Road Exhibits – 2024, 2023
- Summit Art Exhibit – Festival of Lights – Powell Gardens Botanical Garden – November 9 through December 30, 2022
- State of the Juried Arts Show – Prairie Village Arts Council, Prairie Village, KS – October 2021, 2019
- Summit Art Fine Art Exhibit – Lee’s Summit City Hall, Lee’s Summit, MO – October 2022, August 2021
- State Fair Fine Arts Show, MO Arts Council, Sedalia, MO – August 2021
- Buttonwood Art Space Juried Art Exhibits – Kansas City, MO – 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
- Raytown Artists Association Annual Invitational, Raytown, MO – 2023, 2019
- Images Art Gallery Juried Art Show – Overland Park, KS – 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018
- Mid-Missouri Artists Month Long Show – CMSU Art Gallery, Warrensburg, MO – 2022, 2021, 2020 (virtual), 2019
- Barb Byrne Glass Solo Art Show – Lee’s Summit City Hall, Lee’s Summit, MO – July 2019
- Jones Gallery – Kansas City, MO – 2019
- Overland Park Juried Exhibit – Overland Park, KS – 2019
- Heartland Juried Glass Show – Kansas City, MO – 2019, 2018, 2017
- Potter Art Gallery SOLAR Exhibit – St. Joseph, MO – 2017
Galleries Carrying My Work:
