Glenn Ziemke

Glenn Ziemke (born 1956) is an American former sculptor and glassblower. He began glassblowing in 1976 and continued in the business for 46 years. He retired in 2022.

Career Ziemke began glassblowing while a student at Pennsylvania State University in 1976. After two years at that location, followed by fourteen more in Freeport, Maine,

In September 2010, he organized the inaugural Route 100 Glassblowers Open Studio Weekend.

Ziemke appeared in a season-four episode of HGTV's That's Clever!

He retired in May 2022, citing physical exhaustion from almost three decades beside a furnace.

Ziemke is also a musician, and has been songwriting for much of his life.