Highway Hotshop is a joint partnership between Joshua Dopp and Adam Frus. Over the course of the last few years we have had the dream of building an open access glass studio in the downtown Phoenix arts district. This concept has over the last year morphed into the design and building of a mobile glass studio. It became apparent that to have a highly visible and public studio a mobile shop made most sense. Our goal is to put Phoenix and Arizona on the glass art map.
Video interview of Adam and Joshua for the show Inside Creative Minds
Joshua Dopp - Brief Bio
Joshua Noah Dopp has been working with glass for over twenty years. He received his MFA in Glass and Sculpture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. His BA in Art History is from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Joshua is currently a Glass Artist in Residence at the Mesa Arts Center. He received a fellowship to the Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, New Jersey in 2002 and Penland School of Crafts in 1998. He has exhibited extensively from Santa Barbara to Zurich.
As an artist his work takes many forms. Not content to have a signature style, Joshua is constantly experimenting and allowing the topic and force of the moment to inspire and inform his work. Trends apparent in his oeuvre include modernistic abstract bio-morphic forms to highly researched and studied architectural tomes on special relations. Conceptually, balance and harmony and the revealing of beauty by combining divergent and seemingly opposable themes largely guide his work. With an ear to the rail he searches for meaning that is universal while unapologetically referencing the personal. Although he currently lives in Arizona he is a traveler at heart and has lived all over the US and in Europe. His work has been collected by notable patrons and can be seen in museums.
Adam Frus - Brief Bio
Adam Frus began was first introduced to glass in 1997. His initial experiences were enjoyed at Jacksonville University while taking Adult Education courses with Brian Frus (Brother) and John Frus (Father). Adam and his family quickly became invested in the glass community, joining the Glass Art Society (G.A.S.), and helping build a studio for glass artist Tim Miller.
When Adam moved to Arizona in 2003, he quickly became involved with the local glass blowing community. He began teaching classes at the Mesa Arts Center (MAC) in October, 2003 and shortly afterward, he began working as an assistant for Newt Grover at Newt Glass. In 2006 he was involved in opening Circle 6 Studios, Inc., a glass studio in the Central Phoenix area.
After earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Geological Sciences from Arizona State University in 2007, Adam opened Frus Glass and began his career as an artist. In 2009, Adam became the artist in residence at the MAC. His work can be viewed at the MAC Store, or at various art shows throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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