Dorian Bouhuys
Visiting Artist Workshop & Lecture - Dorian Bouhuys
Marble Maze Workshop with Dorian Bouhuys
March 24th through 27th, 2025 9:00am-6:00pm
In this class students will learn to make a color or clear borosilicate marble maze. Dorian will cover the process of preparing borosilicate colored tubing and bending the colored tubing into a marble maze that a mini marble can travel through. Students will make their own marble mazes with the help from Dorian as well a class collaboration.
Artist Biography
Dorian began his glass journey in 2004 when he moved from his hometown of Chicago to Phoenix, AZ. After spending most of his life exploring acrylic, oil and aerosol paint, he found himself back to his true passion; glass. Ever since he saw fire melt glass, the flame captured him like a moth.
Helplessly infatuated with all things glassy, Dorian began selling glass art in Phoenix, where he met several glass legends including his mentors Matt Bain and Darby Holm.
For five years, Dorian had the rare opportunity to work side by side with the industry’s most innovative borosilicate glass artists. During that time he found his own voice as an artist, exploring techniques handed down to him which molded and manipulated into a style of his own.
While in Oregon, working with the Darby crew, he met the woman of his dreams and moved to LA to be closer to her. After five years exploring LA and sharing his work with the city, Dorian and Allegra moved to Santa Fe to have their first child and start a family, where they now reside. Now in Santa Fe, Dorian is expanding on his marble maze body of work.
Learn more about Dorian at www.dorianbouhuys.com or www.instagram.com/orianglass