Evan Schauss – Glass Sculptor & InventorBorn in Tacoma, Washington in 1985, Evan Schauss began his journey in glass art at the young age of 12 through the Hilltop Artists program, a youth initiative founded by legendary glass artist Dale Chihuly. By 17, he was working full-time as a professional glassblower in Seattle, collaborating with renowned artist Martin Blank and The Glasshouse Studio. At just 18, Evan invented the “Hott Shop in a Box”—a revolutionary all-in-one mobile glass studio. This innovation allowed him to bring live glassblowing to art and music festivals across the West Coast, including the iconic Burning Man. That same year, he began traveling internationally to expand his craft, working in the Czech Republic, Murano, Iceland, and Hungary. Evan later established his studio in Seattle’s Chinatown and, in 2009, built a second mobile studio in Maui, Hawaii. By 2011, he relocated permanently to Maui and opened a private studio in Haiku. In 2014, he donated a complete glassblowing studio to the Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center—launching Maui’s first glass education program and leaving a lasting legacy for future generations of artists. Today, Evan continues to live and work primarily in Maui, where he creates groundbreaking works in his private studio. He also travels globally to teach advanced glass sculpture techniques and maintains a permanent residency at Rural Modern Glass in Mumbai, India, where he explores new concepts and pushes the boundaries of the medium.With nearly three decades of experience, Evan Schauss is considered a significant contributor to the contemporary studio glass movement—recognized for his energy-efficient studio designs, technical mastery, and boundary-pushing creativity. Always innovating, always exploring—you never know what he’ll create next, or where his journey will take him.