• Glass Artist of the Month
Brendan Taylor, whose professional handle is BMFT, started working with glass six years ago, having moved to Tucson, AZ from Rockville, MD “for no real reason.”
He met Web, a.k.a. Test1, also a glassblower. Over the course of a few years, Brendan met a host of the other top artists, like Calvin Mickle, Micah Blatt, a.k.a. Fathead, Natey, Eusheen, John Mims and others.
“I thought they were all crazy messing with fire like that,” he says. “It kinda scared me! But it intrigued me, too.”
Eventually, he was coerced into trying it and immediately fell in love with the art. “I saved three weeks’ worth of unemployment checks, bought a torch and tools and took off running. I haven’t turned off my torch since!”…