keilaglassworks (Orlando, Florida)

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Keila Glassworks Award winning glassblower Charles Keila has recently returned to Florida after a decade of pursuing glass training with internationally recognized glass masters. Charles spent the last 6 years in Tucson Arizona blowing glass in the studio of Tom Philabaum, and teaching at the Sonoran Glass Art Academy.

Charles is currently working on his innovative new drawn together series of glass vessels. This series of vessels is inspired by the lush landscape and flora of Charles’ Florida childhood and brought to fruition by the melding of techniques and tools of off-hand and flameworked glass that is the signature of Charles career.

This past year has been busy for Charles and his family. They moved from Tucson’s Sonoran Desert to Central Florida to bring home the experience of studio glass blowing and to open a public studio in the new City Arts Factory in the heart of downtown
Orlando, in the historic Dr. Phillips building on Orange Ave. and Pine St.