* Artist Biography *
Talented Artist - Lampwork Speciality

Loy Allen is a South Dakota native who returned to the Black Hills after studying design at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (B.A., 1975).

After learning basic lampworking in South Dakota, Ms. Allen studied advanced glass techniques at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. She has been self-employed as a flameworker since 1979. Ms. Allen is a member of the South Dakota Artists Network, the Black Hills Artists Network, the Glass Art Society, the American Craft Council, sits on the Board of Directors of the Rapid City Arts Council and chairs the Programming Committee of the Dahl Fine Arts Center of Rapid City, South Dakota. Publications which have featured Loy Allen Art Glass: "The Lampworked Glass of Loy Allen"; Murray Bloom Glassline, Feb., 2000 Contemporary Glass: Color, Light And Form; Leier, Peters and Wallace (Guild Publishing), p. 62 Contemporary Lampworking (Third Edition, Vol. 1); Bandhu Dunham, pps. 113, 147, 228 Formed of Fire: Contemporary Selections in Lampworked Glass; Bandhu Dunham Flameworking: Creating Glass Beads, Sculptures and Functional Objects; Elizabeth Ryland Mears (Lark Books). After learning basic lampworking in South Dakota, Ms. Allen studied advanced glass techniques at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. She has been self-employed as a flameworker since 1979. Ms. Allen is a member of the South Dakota Artists Network, the Black Hills Artists Network, the Glass Art Society, the American Craft Council, sits on the Board of Directors of the Rapid City Arts Council and chairs the Programming Committee of the Dahl Fine Arts Center of Rapid City, South Dakota.