Cheri Lenart is an award winning sculptor. She graduated from U of I- Chicago many years ago and has been exploring glass casting ever since at the Art Institute of Chicago, Toledo Museum of Art and Cleveland Institute of Art . She has worked with artists around the country and has been teaching glass casting classes for jewelers. Cheri's book Uncommon Objects in Glass: Casting Glass in the Small Studio Kiln came to bookstores in June 2011 .