Glass artist Lyubov Savelieva
Born in 1940 in Moscow, Lyubov Savelieva graduated from Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (Stroganovskoe) in 1966. She began participating in regional, national, All-Union, solo and group international exhibitions in 1967. Depicted in a casually-naive manner, her flying images and fantasy stories are full of creative energy. Innovative combination of glass and copper in the works of Honored Artist of Russia distinguishes her from other glass artists.
In 1970 she became a member of the Union of Artists. Since 1969 she has taught artistic ceramics and glass art at University, and became a Professor. Also, she became a Member of the International Association of Art Glass in 1988. in 1990 she got International Award “Artist of the Year” after several exhibitions in the USA. The same year Lyubov Savelieva became the elected member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

The works of Lyubov Savelieva are in Moscow museums – Ceramics and Glass Museum, Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art, and the State Museum-Reserve “Tsaritsyno”. Also, in the art museums of such cities as Dyatkovo, Gagarin, Magnitogorsk, Omsk, Lipetsk, Sergiev Posad, Tyumen, Tula, etc. Among foreign museums are Corning Museum of Glass in the USA, Museum of Contemporary glass in Ebeltoft Denmark, as well as in galleries and private collections all over the world.

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