Therman Statom is a sculptor, glass artist, and painter, known as a pioneer of the contemporary glass movement because of his life-size glass ladders, chairs, tables, constructed paintings, and small scale houses created from gluing class plates together.  He also sandblasts the glass to use as canvasses for painting and line work, and adding blown glass and found objects to his works.  As a young man he enjoyed painting and experimented with ceramics at RISD, but was introduced to blown glass there and eventually graduated with a BFA studying at the Pilchuck Glass School in RISD, later studying at the Pratt Institute of Art and Design.  His works have evolved to focus on education in the arts, creating pieces with the help of adults and children as a community, focusing on the act of doing.