Color is my passion. I collect glass and sometimes wait for decades to hear it tell me what it should become. I love the way light changes the appearance of glass. The same piece appears infinitely different as God turns the sun light on and off each day.

                                 

 

 

 

Karen Deets retired in 2008 from owning Off the Wall Craft Gallery in Allentown, NJ. Deets has had a lifelong interest in all of the arts, but found her passion in craft media. Deets earned her way through college doing leather work which she continued until 1988. It overlapped with her pursuit of glass art, which she began in 1976, in the desire to find more permanency and color in her creations.

 

In 1980 Deets' work was featured in a NYC gallery show, where she was commissioned to create a series of large panels in the style of Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows. From 1977 to 2008, Deets work was sold exclusively at Off the Wall Craft Gallery in Allentown, NJ. Her current work incorporates some new techniques including fused glass, painted and fired glass.

Deets holds a degree in Art Education from TCNJ/Trenton State College. She left a short career as an elementary art teacher to become a full time artist/entrepreneur.

 

Deets is now working out of a studio in her Vermont home. Deets is happily married to Bill, and has a daughter, Shasta, who is a painter and recently graduated from Montclair State University. Her other interests include gardening, skiing, kayakng, hiking and playing in the woods around Glen Lake in Castleton, Vermont.

 

Deets work will now be available for sale in Vermont. Available work can be prepaid and shipped.