Samantha Lipscomb received her BFA in Glass in 2004 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After graduating she continued her glass education at Pilchuck Glass School and Penland School of crafts. Through taking these courses she was introduced to Beth Lipman, who became a mentor of sorts, and was fortunate to assist Beth at Corning, the Tacoma Museum glass studio, and at the Pittsburgh Center of Glass Arts. In 2008 Samantha received a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, which enabled her to attend Riksglasskolan in Orrefors, Sweden. There she was able to refine and improve her technical skills and was able to blow glass at the amazing Orrefors factory. Aside from her year of study in Sweden and other traveling, Samantha has worked at Chicago Hot Glass since 2004 as an instructor and shop technician. If she is not working in the hot shop you will most likely find her in her studio space; engraving, uv gluing, plotting and planning.