Instructors Bios

Linda Billet:

Linda Billet is a glass artisan working out of her Central Pennsylvania studio. Her initiation to glass techniques was a semester of glass blowing at Harrisburg Area Community College. However, her craftsmanship is mainly self-taught. She enjoys the freedom of this eclectic education. Currently, her work is a combination of fused and mosaic glass techniques which she feels allow greater control of pattern, texture, and detail. Experimenting ensures that her work is absolutely unique.

Billet draws inspiration from her experience in fabric and her passion for nature. While working with glass she uses dimension to her full advantage, even if it is only a quarter of an inch. Billet says, “I want people to see into my work, not through it. I am flattered when people feel compelled to touch it. If someone is intrigued enough to use their fingers to see what I’ve created, then I have accomplished what I set out to do. My hope is for people to look at glass in a different way.”

A huge chunk of Billet’s art career has been working in residencies. In these projects, people come together to make a large art work. In her words, “Residencies were a way that I felt I could help all types of people (Kindergarteners, mentally ill adults, max security prisoners, special needs kids or any willing participants) learn to communicate and collaborate in a fun way that ultimately builds their self-belief.  But as in most cases where one intends to help, they end up also benefitting as well. Residencies have furthered my understanding of my own self and my craft.”  I cannot imagine “work” that is more fun than I have in my profession.