A Bucheimer
Better Together Resident
A Bucheimer is a trans AFAB Filipino glass artist living and working is Seattle, WA. He was raised in a small farm town in Maryland where he started blowing glass at the age of sixteen. After high school he went on to receive his BFA in 2014 from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a concentration in glass, then quickly relocated to Seattle.
He currently resides in White Center, WA with his wife Esmeralda and dogs Pogi and Kipo. A works as the supervisor for the glass team at Chihuly Garden and Glass where he has been demonstrating for the past seven years. He is also building a home hot shop to make his product line of accessible home goods and other sculptural work. His studio work is an exploration of both his gender and racial identity using pattern and form. Heavily focusing on negative space utilizing the transparent properties of glass he expresses what a feeling or emotion might look like.
