I am fortunate to have had the influence and support of devoted parents. My father taught me proper tool use and introduced me to many materials and crafts. As a Civil Engineer, he excelled in problem-solving from which I benefited immensely. I discovered books at age nine and thus avoided the scourge of television.

I attended High School at Westtown Friends School and matriculated in Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont after studying Chemistry and Comparative Religion. During summers at Mount Sinai Hospital doing research in Neurochemistry I was introduced to scientific glassblowing with borosilicate glass and Quartz. I hitch-hiked in South America before returning to studies in Medicine at the University of Vermont, receiving my M.D. in 1980. I practiced Emergency Medicine for 15 years.

My creative voice kept asking for my attention during these years of practice through blown glass, copper sculpture, and furniture design. I made my departure from medicine two years after building my studio in 1995. With the collaboration and patient tutorials of Rich Arentzen we developed a line of off-hand blown glass that is our studio's foundation.

I have had the opportunity to study at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Corning Studio with Fritz Dreisbach, Jan Erik-Ritzman, David Levi, and Josiah McIlhenny.

On my creative horizon is the design of one of a kind blown and mosaic glass, as well as furniture and lighting design.

Bud Shriner's work can be seen at QUARTERS, 114 Main St., Harbor Springs, Michigan, and at Church & Maple Glass Studio in Burlington, Vermont.