rebeccah byer / bio

Rebeccah Byer

Rebeccah Byer is an artist, educator, glassblower, and social entrepreneur based in Winston-Salem, NC.

She is the Founding Executive Director of The Olio, conceiving the idea in 1994 as a struggling college student who accidentally found furnace glassblowing and found it to be an excellent learning and teaching tool.

She has also been a Professor of the Practice at Wake Forest University in the Center for Entrepreneurship, co-produced the award-winning documentary film INDESTRUCTIBLE, and ran The Olio’s furnace glassblowing studio from 2014-2020. She is also the Co-Founder of Artful Unlimited, an art sales and installation company.

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“The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.”

~ Romare Bearden