Dean Allison is a working artist in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. In 2010, he received a M.A. in Visual Arts in glass from Australian National University. He has since been a Resident Artist at the Penland School of Crafts and has taught at the Glass Furnace in Istanbul, Turkey; Bullseye Glass Company in Portland, Oregon; and Studio at Corning, NY. Dean has shown work at SOFA Chicago, Scope Miami, Smithsonian Portrait Gallery and Boise Art Museum and has work in the following collections: Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan; The Julie Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, Alabama; Hinson Art Museum, Wingate, North Carolina; and Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.