Gazelle Glass, owned by Skip Horton and Donna Beverly, has been in operation since 1976. Skip received his BFA and completed two years post- graduate work in ceramics at Cal State University before making wooden toys, wooden musical instruments, and diving for abalone. He has been a lamp worker since 1976. Donna has a mastersdegree in visual artsand taught drawing  and painting for eighteen years. She is an accomplished painter and has been a lamp worker since 1986.

Gazelle is a small company located in the farmland foothills of Philomath, Oregon. Gazelle moved to Oregon in 1990 after Skip and Donna’s home and business burned to the ground in the Santa Barbara city-wide arson fire. They got their cat and the computer backup and said goodbye to California. Moving north, they set up in the three-sided garage of their new Oregon home. Now, fourteen years later, Gazelle is situated on 50 acres of farmland. Oregon protects and values its farmland so Gazelle
shares its space with a flock of sheep, presided over by the charming and indomitable Willamina.

Gazelle’s glass is popular because the products are high quality, affordable and all hand-blown. There are no items blown into molds. Gazelle primarily uses borosilicate glass, more commonly known as Pyrex. Colors are added in lines or dots of colored cane, most of which are made in-house. The transparent colors—yellow, bright pink and coral—are made by fuming metals—silver, 24k gold and copper—onto the glass with the torch’s heat. The caps are made of chrome-plated brass. They are heated to create many different colors.

Gazelle now has seven glassblowers designing and producing salt shakers, perfume bottles, marbles, ornaments and martinis. Designs range from whimsical to elegant. Gazelle’s goal is to make fine quality art glass available to everyone at a reasonable price.