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Laura Goff Parham

Objective: To provide the highest quality art glass through the multifaceted use of colored and textured glass.

Employment:

1990 – Present

Vice President, State of the Art, Inc. Stained Glass Studio Knoxville, TN

Responsible for pattern design, color selection, beveling, sandblasting, and painting glass, sales and marketing, project management, material acquisition, management and public relations, bookkeeping, (accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and taxes. Development of specialized techniques in the stained glass fabrication and restoration. See reference list.

1989 – 1990

Administrative assistant
Why Not Glass?
Memphis, TN

Pattern design, color selection and supply management.

1989

Beveler
Laukhuff’s Stained Glass
Memphis, TN

Intensive hands on experience in custom beveling

1987 – 1989

Apprentice/specializing in manufacture, restoration and installation of stained glass.
Knox Glass Company
Knoxville, TN

Intensive training in the repair and restoration as well as manufacture of stained glass windows. Hands on in custom beveling, sand blasting, pattern design and color selection

Education:
1981 -1986 BA in Art History
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
1986 International Student. Spent six months backpacking through Europe. It was there that ‘discovered’ stained glass and knew that was my calling in life.
Continuing
Education:
2009 Explorations in Change: Contemporary Glass Movement 1996 and Disaster Restorations SGAA Conference, Oklahoma City, OK Painting on Glass class with Bob Markert.
2007 Jewels of Light
SGAA conference, Charlotte, NC
2005 Stained Glass Painting: Fusing the Old and the New
SGAA Conference, Denver, CO
Painting on Glass class with Peter McGrain
Painting on Glass class with Mominee Studios
2004 Landscape Painting with Heather Boureland
University of Tennessee
2002 Life Drawing
University of Tennessee
1991 Painting on Glass with Walter Leiberman
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Gatlinburg, TN
1988 Sandblasting, Sandcarving and Custom Glue Chipping
Norm Dobbins
Atlanta, GA
Professional
Associations:

Stained Glass Association of America (SGAA)
Accredited Studio member since 1999

Secretary, Stained Glass School Board (a division of the SGAA)
2009 - Present

BBB, 18 years complaint free

Awards: Excellence Award in Historic Preservation, awarded by the Knoxville Metropolitan Planning Commission 1996
Related:
Activities:
Live at Five (news program) Expert on Stained Glass
Stained Glass:

Featured in the FYI: Stained Glass Gallery
Stained Glass Quarterly Magazine, Fall 2009

Featured in the FYI: Stained Glass Gallery
Stained Glass Quarterly Magazine, Spring 2007

Book: Creative Stained Glass by Christine Kellman Stevenson
Featured in the gallery section
Civic
Contributions:

Cub Scout Assistant Leader – Pack 59, 2006 - 2007
Knoxville, TN

Secretary, United Methodist Women, 2006 - 2008
First Farragut United Methodist Church
Knoxville, TN

Vice President, 2001 - 2003
Fort West Owners Association
Knoxville, TN

Volunteer in the classroom
Farragut Primary School
Knoxville, TN

Volunteer in the classroom
Farragut Intermediate School
Knoxville, TN

Taught ‘how to make stained glass’ show and tell seminars to the students at Farragut Primary School and Farragut Intermediate School. We did this for my sons’ class from Kindergarten – 5th grades. We even let the kids cut the glass!

Misc:

Model for local TV commercials and print ads

Status: Single