Geoff Isles has been
involved in many capacities within the world of glass. He graduated from Tulane University and
continued his studies taking two concentrations
at Penland School of Crafts under Fritz Dreisbach. Soon after returning to New York City, he joined the
Board of the New York Experimental Glass
Workshop, leading the effort to move the studio to Brooklyn and changing it to UrbanGlass. He taught Product
Design at Parson's School of Design
throughout the 1990's, starting their glass program within the department. Geoff is the Vice Chairman and
the Chair of the Collections Committee of the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA and is also on the Board of the Newcomb Art
Gallery at Tulane University in New
Orleans, LA. His By-Line, the Glass Eye, can be read in each issue of GLASS: the UrbanGlass Quarterly magazine. He
is also the Editor of GASnews, the Glass
Art Society newsletter.
