Elizabeth Ryland Mears s a full time, award winning studio artist. She creates works in glass and mixed media using primarily the glassblowing technique of flamework. She intensively studied that glass technique at Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School and The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. She was a scholarship student at the latter two and has now taught at many of the venues where she was a student, as well as, others. Mears’ creations are represented by galleries throughout the nation and are included in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections.