Susan Gott

Susan Gott is an award-winning artist who creates sculpture utilizing glass as her primary media and specializes in cast glass to create one-of-a-kind sculptures and large-scale public art. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Kent State University, a Bachelor’s from Radford University and studied glass at Pilchuck, Haystack, Arrowmont and Penland. Susan is in demand as a high caliber instructor and recently taught glass at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass and The Glass Furnace in Istanbul, Turkey. She served as Conference Co-chair for the Glass Art Society Conference in Tampa. Susan grew up in Virginia and built her studio in Tampa, Florida where she works from her own Gott Glass Gallery & Phoenix Studio, a unique artist’s atelier.

Gott has designed and completed numerous major public works incorporating cast glass, bas-relief panels, lighting, fountains, seating, often combining steel and stone. Works are included in the public collections of the City of Tampa, Port St. Lucie, University of Central Florida, Port Tampa Library, The City of St. Petersburg, and HARTline Transit Center.

Susan’s glass sculptures are exhibited and collected internationally, most recently with the Art in Embassies Program at the American Embassy in Guatemala and Kisslinger Crystal in Rattenburg, Austria. Permanent collections include The National Gallery of Bulgaria, Cafesjian Museum of Art in Armenia, Tacoma Museum of Glass, Saint Petersburg Museum, Polk Museum of Art, Alexander Brest Museum, Raymond James, and Tampa General Hospital. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including, an American Craft Council Award of Excellence, Crafts-Woman of the Year, Individual Artist Fellowship and New Forms Florida. Her work is published in New Glass Review, Glass Art 2000, Glass Art Magazine, Sunshine Artist and American Craft.

"My work embodies an interest in mythological imagery, symbolism, and philosophies from historic and ancient cultures. I love to travel, and I am intensely interested in ancient civilizations, symbols of ritual art, ancient myths, and how they connect us—most deeply—with our own nature and our place in this world. The resulting glass, with primitive qualities and metaphors, are a visual representation of the cycles of life. The archetypal images that emerge explore spirituality, existence, humor, love, magic, dualities, and the beauty of life."

SOURCE - https://www.gottglass.com/about-us (Sept 2025)