Calyx Glass specializes in fused glass art and mosaics, integrating stained glass and lampworking techniques at times. Her work is available in her etsy shop or she can be contacted for commissions and community projects.

Carrie Ann Strope is a glass artist and educator based in Lincoln, Nebraska, whose work bridges traditional craftsmanship with experimental glass techniques. With over two decades of experience, her practice explores the intersection of material innovation, collaboration, and community engagement.

Carrie’s work spans stained glass, kilnforming, mosaics, and torchwork; currently her primary focus is on freeze-cast borosilicate and freeze-and-fuse methodologies. She has contributed to advancing freeze-casting techniques for contemporary glass applications, sharing her research through exhibitions, workshops, and presentations in the U.S. and internationally. In 2025, she completed an artist residency in Lauscha, Germany, collaborating with Alexandra Fresch to develop gradient color charts for freeze-casting and pâte de verre processes, supporting more informed color-mixing decisions for inclusions in furnace-worked and torchworked glass. The residency emphasized knowledge-sharing through collaboration with local artists and hands-on instruction for area artists and students at the Lauscha vocational school, enabling broader adoption of the technique.

An experienced educator, Carrie teaches workshops worldwide, fostering technical skill-building and creative exploration. Community engagement is central to her career; she has led numerous large-scale collaborative projects, including mosaic and fused glass installations in schools and public spaces. Her work emphasizes accessibility, experimentation, and the shared creative process.

Carrie Strope is an Integrated Learning Specialist on the roster of teaching artists with the Nebraska Arts Council’s Artists in Schools and Communities program and the Creative Aging Through the Arts program. She works with students k-12, as well as adults, creating individual and collaborative art pieces for installation in public and private spaces, generally culminating in an opening reception for sharing the project and process with the community. For residencies, students generally create an individual project to keep, and then collaborate on a larger project that is installed in the school permanently.

Classes for adults, children and families are available in glass fusing, mosaic, stained glass & jewelry.

Contact Carrie for more information on setting up a residency, workshop or classes for your group.

In addition to teaching locally at Lincoln’s premiere fused glass and glass class studio (Lincoln Hot Glass), Carrie travels internationally to teach in glass studios and at national conferences, including the Glass Craft & Bead Expo in Las Vegas, NV and the annual American Mosaic Summit which changes venues yearly.

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Carrie is a member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists, the Glass Art Society, and the International Society of Glass Beadmakers.