Tim Spurchise, originally from Syracuse, New York, is a career glass artist focusing in hot glass sculpting. His glass work has been shown both nationally across the United States, and abroad in Germany, Bulgaria, Sweden, and China. He received first place for the exhibit in Sweden, and received an excellence work award for the exhibit in China. He also has work on display in the Permanent Collection of Contemporary Glass from the International Biennale of Glass in Bulgaria. Most recently, Tim had a solo exhibition at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Tennessee  featuring a new series of sculptural glass monsters.

Tim received his M.F.A from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, and has a B.A. in Studio Art and a B.A. in Art History from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. Currently, Tim works full time at Tulsa Glassblowing School. Throughout his career, Tim has worked professionally as an instructor and/or technician at the Toledo Museum of Art, Bowling Green State University, Third Degree Glass Factory, the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio, and Tidewater Community College. He was also recently hired by Mikael Owunna Studios to hot-sculpt a series of several Egyptian deity-themed sculptures for a major exhibition at Pittsburgh Glass Center.