About Naomi

Naomi Edelberg was born in Montreal, Canada. While attending Penn State University studying Marketing & Design, Naomi took some technical classes in the glass medium, which had fascinated her since childhood.  Naomi was immediately hooked and she spent several years learning from Ken Plattner in Boalsburg, PA. Ken was a glass master with old school techniques and Naomi is forever grateful to her mentor. The unique teachings Ken shared with her are details that one can only learn from extended experience.  To have learned from someone with such vast knowledge of stained glass, its composition, and its history was a gift. 

As Naomi continued to create traditional works, she began to look at the glass differently. Naomi began experimenting with various cuts and began cutting and working with the movement. Although glass wants to breaks in a straight line, Naomi was determined to find a way to cut with its' curves and its sensual flow. Taking tiny cuts, one at a time, and working her way slowly into each small cut and curve, Naomi found her voice within the movement in the glass.  In time Naomi's signature glass art style emerged. Ken was delighted to celebrate her work. He would often share Naomi's creations with his new students, and he had told her how proud he was to have had a student eventually emerge with their own unique style. 

Naomi has traveled extensively and lived in many corners of the world where extreme natural phenomena occur daily. From the Northern Lights she experienced while living above the Arctic Circle in Sweden, to the depths of the oceans, where she has spent hundreds of hours scuba diving, Naomi continues to translate natural phenomena and environmental concepts into amazing glass creations. Naomi lives at the foot the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, surrounded by majestic mountains and fantastic skies.

Public Art Installations:

Caduceus
2002, Arecibo Medical Center - Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Cellular Reflections
2008, Fort Lewis College Biology Department - Durango, Colorado

Shades of Wind
2010, The Nederland Community Library - Nederland, Colorado

Unstable Equilibrium
2011, The National Science Foundation - Arlington, Virginia

Phoenix Rising
2017, Anchorage Fire Department - Anchorage, Alaska