Neighborhood residents Jim Bowman and Mary Lynn Devereux have worked in all forms of glass art for the past 15 years, individually and as a team.
The two are partners in a studio, Hickory Street Hot Glass, which specializes in glass blowing.
“We’re in the right place at the right time,” says Bowman, explaining that interest in glass blowing is growing in this area. “On the West Coast, there is much more of it than here. I thought ‘If I don’t set up a studio in this, someone else will.’ ”
Bowman created a glass program at the University of Texas at Arlington and taught there for two years. His other work includes a commission by DART to build a sculptural clock at the West End station.
Devereux teaches all media art classes for children at the studio in the summer. She also works with Young Audiences of Greater Dallas as an artist in residence, teaching workshops in Dallas schools. Last year, she led students in the creation of a stained glass installation at the entrance of Lakewood Elementary.
Bowman’s and Devereux most recent work is a series of four painted glass murals commissioned by the City for the VA Hospital Dart light rail station.
“It is a great collaboration,” Bowman says of two artists working and living together. “We’re able to focus our lives the way we want to.”
