Hayden Wilson
Hayden Wilson grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in sculpture from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. As a second-generation glass maker, he has been around glass his entire life, but has been working professionally as a glass blower and caster the past six years. He has been an assistant instructor in the glass studio at Penland School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School. Hayden has also worked at Jackson County Green Energy Park, and for 5 years served as Asheville Glass Center shop manager building equipment, teaching glass classes. He currently creates his work as well as serving as studio manager at the North Carolina Glass Center a non-profit, public access educational glass facility.
