Bellefonte Arts Instructors

Erno Keskeney

Erno has been interested in glass art from a very young age. His early encounters include breaking his grandmother’s chandelier with a flagpole, and carving crix-crax into the glass plate of his front door with a sharp stone. The real interest started years later, when he bent his first glass tube during a short glass blowing instruction in chemistry class.  Since then his dream was to learn to manipulate glass in the fire. His dream became a reality when he saw an ad for a Glass casting class with instructor Lucartha Kohler at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.  He was then directed to the Salem County Community College where he began glass blowing at the torch. After taking several weekend classes, workshops, and subsequent semesters he was hooked!   He met and was inspired by great artists like Emilio Santini, Luccio Bubacco, Shane Fero and the great Paul Stankard. He mentioned to someone that glass art was his hobby, and the person corrected him “It is your passion my friend.” And he was right.