Many years after perfecting his ceramic techniques, Bill Glass’s art seems to be everywhere. At the BOK Center in Tulsa, the American Indian Cultural Center in Oklahoma City, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, a former Trail of Tears’ embarkation point, now known as the “Passage.” Glass’s public art projects are collaborations with his son, Demos, executed in their studio at Locust Grove. But his small ceramic sculptures are still much in demand. Their high gloss finish and flowing lines are adorned with Southeastern designs, which the artist helped popularize. Glass attended the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe in his mid-twenties, where he studied sculpture under Alan Houser. Bill helped to enact Cherokee Nation legislation evolving the procurement of Artwork for his tribe. Throughout his career he has won numerous art awards for his pottery and sculptural works. He was interviewed as part of the Oklahoma Native Artists Oral History Project in 2011. For more information, visit www.library.okstate.edu/oralhistory/ona © 2011 Oklahoma State University

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