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Biography:
A diverse background
enriches the creative process. ~ Bill Biggers
Born
in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Bill Biggers immediately began drawing
and painting in early childhood. He studied Drawing, Painting,
and Design at Georgia State University,
Atlanta, and later headed the GSU Graphics and Photography Unit
in the Department of Educational Media where he remained for 17
years. Educational Media's dynamic production teams, Film/Video,
Graphics & Photography, and Audio won numerous regional and
national media awards in education, communications and the arts.
Will left
GSU to develop award winning consumer catalogues for an
importer. Concurrently he developed the Mountain Pond
creating one-of-a-kind and limited edition raku and stoneware.
At the John C. Campbell Folk School, Bill was
Resident Potter while heading marketing, he also taught and
authored a history of the Brass Town Carvers.
He
traveled west to California to work at the Pocket Ranch
Institute and the Star Foundation. High in the mountains above
the vineyards surrounding Geyserville, he produced marketing
materials, a video, and was on the management team for the large
retreat and psychotherapeutic facility.
Bill
returned to the Southeast and soon worked as Operations Director
and Music Personnel Manager for the Greenville Symphony, in
Greenville, South Carolina. After four years, he left the
Symphony, took some time off, and subsequently returned to his
first love, the visual arts. He began studying with stained
glass artist Michael Kitchen, then of Tryon Decorative Glass,
Tryon, North Carolina. There he learned the art of glass
painting, window design and fabrication.
In January
of 1998, Bill ventured on his own to create Biggers Glass
Painting & Stained Glass. Throughout many career lives, he has
created drawings, paintings, portraits, products and for
communications, business, crafts and the arts. He's found his
home in glass. |