Our Bowled Over with Glass Art workshops, led by Chelsea Rousso, are proving to be very popular. The May workshop sold out within days of the announcement, and it appears that the June encore will also be fully booked. With Chelsea’s expert guidance, 16 participants enjoyed making fazzoletto-style bowls inspired by the Chihuly Macchia collection at WMODA. Chelsea delivered the finished works of art to the museum, ready for a Grand Reveal. Everybody was thrilled with the results!

Chelsea Rousso is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, lecturer and author. She began her career as a fashion designer in New York and began working with WMODA ten years ago while teaching fashion at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. She rekindled her early art practice in studio glass art, specializing in kiln-formed fused glass. Inspired by Chihuly and other glass masters represented at WMODA, she began experimenting with fused glass methods to make blown glass forms.

Chelsea has developed many different styles of draped Fazzoletto-style bowls and was commissioned by Broward Cultural Division to make a collection of unique fused glass table centers for their State of the Arts address in 2023. Chelsea’s free-form style uses strips and pieces of colorful glass, which can be arranged on clear glass to create a fabulous Fazzoletto-style bowl or draped to create an abstract table center. Some of Chelsea’s latest designs are available for sale in the Studio Collection Museum Shop at WMODA.

Chelsea’s first Bowled Over by Glass Art workshop in May inspired many WMODA fans to ignite their creative spirit and try their hand at fused glass art. Chelsea fired and slumped all the creations in her kiln and brought them back to the museum for a Grand Reveal. The results were truly amazing and everybody was very excited to see their works of art on display at WMODA.