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Lauren Bailey began her artistic journey at an early age while growing up on Long Island’s South Shore.  Art appreciation and exploration through crafts and nature were a regular part of daily life.  With the support of her family she pursued an intense fine art education, concentrating in sculpture, design, fine craft, and photography while attending schools in both New York City and Philadelphia.  It was while living in Philadelphia in 1999 that she attended her first silversmithing class and shortly there after, took her first lampworking lesson.  “I knew I had found my life’s calling in glass and jewelry design”.

Today Lauren lives with her family in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania where she works as a full-time glass and jewelry artist.  She draws her greatest inspiration from her natural surroundings, her childhood days spent on the beaches of Long Island, and from her daily life with her two young sons.  Lauren combines both soft glass and borosilicate glass with traditional silversmithing techniques to create a diverse line of art glass, jewelry, and accessories which she offers for sale in galleries, boutiques, juried art shows, and on the web.  Lauren teaches private and small group lampworking classes and jewelry making classes.  She is also in the process of designing and manufacturing two new lines of tools and opening Thirteen Moons Gallery and Hot Glass Studio near her home in Drums, PA in 2007.