BIOGRAPHY

Charles W Pace III was named after his great, great grandfather Charles W Pace who was a prominent Colorado beet farmer and one of the founders of the National Western Stock Show in Denver, and helped in starting the Boulder County Fair in Longmont during the early 1900’s.

Charles W Pace III was born in Colorado in 1977, he began working with glass at the torch in 1994 and was self-taught until he went to Pilchuck Glass School in 2000 where he studied with Cesare Toffolo. While at Pilchuck he also made his first hot casting with a flameworked inclusion and was encouraged to seek an art degree. In 2002 he enrolled into the only program in the country that offered a degree focused on torch working glass, Salem Community College. While at SCC, Charles took specialized workshops with Paul Stankard and Emilio Santini. It was at this time when he built his own glory hole with a crucible and began teaching himself traditional glass blowing skills as well as took a course at The Studio at Corning Museum of Glass. Charles also received a Special Achievement Award from Paul Stankard. After graduating SCC, Charles enrolled into California College of the arts in 2006. While studying at CCA, Charles also worked at John Lewis Glass. During his last year at CCA in 2009, Charles was rewarded a special scholarship for pioneering his own unique glass casting process using multiple part rigidized sand molds along with the vacuum encasement process. After graduating CCA, Charles found himself working at the Pismo Fine Art Glass Gallery in Aspen Colorado as the manager of installations, shipping and receiving while he began building his own studio. In 2022 he finished building his studio and resumed development of his unique casting process. Charles has taken the bold task of learning and combining all the different glass working techniques into his unique process. He has mastered the medium at all levels; from small flameworked objects to large scale cast glass and everything in between, Charles has united these different glass working techniques into something magical that the world has never seen before. Charles W Pace III is pushing the known limits of glass sculpture higher and higher with each new sculpture he creates.