Art Glass by Trefny Dix & Bengt Hokanson

Boar Glass is a hot-glass blowing and casting studio founded in 1996 by artists Bengt Hokanson and Trefny Dix. Boar Glass specializes in custom architectural tiles, lighting and distinctive hand-blown sculptural vessels like the ones shown above.

Bengt Hokanson graduated from Tulane University with a degree in anthropology and a minor in glass. He has attended Pilchuck Glass School many times between 1990 and 2001 as a student and a teaching assistant. Trefny Dix earned a BFA in sculpture from Indiana University at Bloomington and has been a student at Pilchuck Glass School and New York's Art Students League.

Glass artist Trefny Dix

Trefny Dix

• Pilchuck Glass School, June 2001
• Indiana University Bloomington, B.F.A. in Sculpture, 1993
• Art Students League, New York, 1987-88

• PFFS 1st prize Hot Materials Award, 2004
• SOFA Outstanding Sculpture Student Award, 1993
• New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Grant, 2002

• 1996 - present: Artist & Co-owner of Boar Glass, Inc.
• 1995 - 2001: Design assistant for Carol Horn, New York, NY
• 1994 - 95: Studio Inferno, New Orleans, LA.
      Caster in production glass studio.
• 1990 - 93: IUB Aviary, Bloomington, IN.
      Aviary and Lab assistant
• 1987 - 88: Cera-Cast Foundry, Long Island City, NY.
      Bronze Chaser
• 1986 - 85: Strumlauf Foundry, Charlottesville, VA.
      Bronze Caster's assistant

Bengt Hokanson

• Tulane University, B.A. in Anthropology, 1991

• PFFS 1st prize Hot Materials Award, 2004
• Ronald Katz Award for Outstanding Sculpture, 1991

• 1996 - present: Artist & Co-owner of Boar Glass, Inc.
• 1998: Teacher's Assistant for Gene Koss, Pilchuck Glass School
• 1995: Studio Inferno, New Orleans, LA.
      Caster in production glass studio.
• 1993: Teacher's Assistant for Pike Powers and Fred Kahl
      Pilchuck Glass School
• 1992: Staff, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA.
• 1990 - 93: Gaffer for Gene Koss, Head of Glass department
      Tulane University