Alex Greenwood started learning how to manipulate glass in 2001. With a small torch in his kitchen he began to explore the world of lampworking. After a short time he found an apprenticeship in a production studio in Eastern North Carolina. "Working as an apprentice for that time helped me to appreciate the lessons that full time production had to offer."

After working for three years with this studio Alex felt the urge to broaden his horizons and went back to school. He moved to middle Tennessee and began attending the Appalachian Center for Crafts where he spent four years studying the craft of off-hand glass blowing.

Alex moved to Asheville in late 2007 where he and Logan MacSporran met and began organizing the Asheville Center for Glass.

 

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Logan MacSporran was born in Toronto and emigrated with his family to the US in 1978. Raised in the South, he is a self taught artist who works in several mediums. Having worked as a graphic designer for most of the 1990's he found Lampworking in 1999. He worked as a glassblower until 2003 when he took a position as a CAD Jewelry Designer.

Logan moved to Asheville, North Carolina in 2005 and began working as a glassblower again while doing CAD design for artists, sculptors and rennovators. He is now dedicated to starting the AGC with Alex Greenwood.