Artist Profile: Nick Nourot

Nick Nourot began making art glass at the tender age of 6, while growing up in his parents' glass studio, . He and friend would set up a table outside the studio and sell their own artistic wares. “I’ve been around the glass shop all my life," Nourot says.

“When I was 9, I was inspired by the many glass artists my parents had in their studio, especially Lino Tagliapietra,” he adds. By 11, he believed that being in the hot shop (the area of the glass studio in which the glass blowing happens) was more important than school.

After graduating from in 2002, Nourot got serious about glass. In 2002, he taught briefly at the Eugene Glass School. He later attended the Pilchuck School, where his father studied nearly 40 years ago, and took summer workshops abroad with instructor Dante Marioni.

Nourot's style of art glass is long and lean. He is well known for his signature series, the tall red “Amphorae.”

"Trying to do what the old Italian masters did is no easy job, but the glass I like to make most now is new designs using some of the old techniques. I'm just starting to see what I can do with it," says Nourot.

His other passion is competitive bass fishing. Nourot has placed "in the money" at some Northern California bass tournaments. And in January, he caught 18 bass at a Lake Shasta tournament.

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location: 675 East H St.