Jack Storms

In 2012, Douglas Biro commissioned Storms to create a work of art that commemorates Derek Jeter's historic 3000th hit. The Optic Crystal Baseball Bat was designed from three thousand pieces of glass. The work is privately owned and on display in Jeter's home. The Carmel Valley Rotary Club commissioned Storms to create a sculpture as a gift to President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo to mark the opening of the first blood bank in Africa.

In 2011, the Harrington Art Partnership commissioned Storms to create a large glass bell for public display at the Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton, California. The five hundred pound, two-foot tall Firehouse Crystal Bell is an allusion to the art gallery's history as the city's first fire station and it was created in part to honor past firefighters. The bell is composed of over eight thousand pieces of glass and features the use of Starphire glass in addition to the other three glasses that Storms works with. Storms spent approximately two years working on the optic bell for the Harrington Art Partnership.

Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Storms attended Plymouth State University where he earned a degree in art, studio emphasis, with a minor in art history. During his junior year, Storms was introduced to glass while working for a local glass sculptor. Storms started his own studio in 2002 in Carmel Valley, California. In 2004 the artist opened StormsWorks Studio, with the idea to give the cold glass sculpting process a new meaning, he believed that the art of cold glass sculpting needed more innovation. His first accomplishment was to create a cold glass lathe, where he was able to turn glass like one would turn wood enabling him to make shapes like eggs, wine bottles and baseball bats using the cold glass process, which otherwise would be impossible. "I use a cutting edge medium to make organic and familiar things," he explained about the process of turning glass on the lathe. The glass artist moved his studio to Valencia, California in 2013, where he expanded his operation and opened Storms Publishing.

Jack Storms (born September 25, 1970) is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur. He is known as "one of just three standout cold glass craftsmen" in the United States. He uses a cold glass sculpting process. Storms' glass Spectrum Cube and Tear Drop sculptures are part of the story and set design in the Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy. His work has been commissioned for Derek Jeter and the President of Nigeria.