(4) Pink and Red Art Glass Vases. Three are jack-in-the-pulpit variants, one signed indistinctly and dated '91, one signed by Joe Deanda, and the other indistinctly signed on the ball-shaped bottom. The fourth piece is a somewhat more traditional form, signed, numbered, and dated '83 by Stephen Fellerman. 

Size: 11 x 4 3/4 x 2 in. 

Joseph “Joe” Jay Deanda was born in Santa Barbara, California on April 18th, 1957, and first took glassblowing as an elective while earning his engineering degree at University of Southern California. He went to work for a bioengineering company crafting prosthetics, but eventually felt called to glass art and left to focus on it full time. After being hired to work as the Master Glassblower at the glassblowing facility in the Dollywood theme park, he moved to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in 1985 and started a family, becoming one of the longest-working and most beloved employees at the venue. He worked until illness forced him to retire, dying on August 27th, 2023 after a short but difficult battle with liver cancer, and his works are still beloved by collectors and travelers to the landmark kiln, found in museums, galleries, and private collections throughout the United States. 

Stephen Fellerman was born in Manhattan, New York in 1951, immersed in the arts from a young age and first experimenting with ceramics at the Pratt Institute before finding his calling in art glass after traveling to Sausalito, California in 1972. He returned east to Kent, Connecticut in 1973 to open his own glass studio, where he produced thousands of pieces and inspired numerous other artists throughout New England. Since 2007 he and his son Jason have been blowing glass together at a new home studio in Maui, Hawaii, and today his iridescent, Art Nouveau-inspired work can be found in major collections across the country, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Chrysler Museum of Art, and the White House Art Archives. 

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