Jerry Hild

Jerry Hild started making art glass 16 years ago. “I can remember all the way back to when Disneyland opened in 1955. I saw the glass blowers there working these little glass animals, and it’s always stuck in my mind,” Hild said. “Then when I retired, I had these glass rods laying around up at a ranch that I had, and I just heated them up with a welding torch and started doing stuff like that,” he said. Hild began visiting glass stores and buying the appropriate tools, making pieces for family and friends and eventually selling his work at arts & crafts shows.” Jerry has been a member of Main Street Arts since we first opened.

Source: https://www.mainstreetarts.net/a-touch-of-glass.html

*Artist featured in 2024 Art Passages exhibition at the County Administration Building in Martinez, California.