Lynquell (LA) Biggs is from the South side of Chicago. He joined Project FIRE, an artist development program combining trauma psychoeducation with glassblowing for youth who have been injured by gun violence in 2016. LA is teaching artist and production assistant at Firebird Community Arts. He has shared his experiences growing up in Chicago and finding healing through glassblowing at the GAS Conference in Tacoma, WA and was a demonstrating artist at the conference in Detroit, MI. He has been an artist in residence at Hilltop Artists, Pittsburgh Center for Glass, Alfred University, and Tyler School of Art.