Judy Rice

Judy was born in 1948 at Yuba City California. She attended American River College and studied silversmithing at Cerritos College in southern California. She worked as a dental assistant while raising a child as a single parent. In 1975 she moved to Nevada City California. She met her husband Gary at his studio in 1978. She studied stained glass at “The Glassworks” and later, with Gary’s help, opened a studio and supply store at Southshore in Lake Tahoe.  Judy taught classes and executed stained glass commissions in her studio.  In 1980 Judy returned to Nevada City and began her partnership with Gary.  In 1988 Judy began working part time for Schmidt/Rhea Glass.  This studio produced paper weights  and jewelry.  Judy worked at a variety of tasks including; hot shop assistant, coldworking, glass cutting, glass fusing, bead making, and designing and constructing jewelry.  In 1992 Judy attended Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada where she studied mold making for blown glass as well as assisting in the hot glass sessions.  Judy currently works with her husband in Clarksville Missouri  at Clarksville Glassworks, a studio and gallery where they create two and three dimensional pieces that can be viewed at galleries nationwide.