Boyd Sugiki and Lisa Zerkowitz began blowing glass together at Rhode Island School of Design in 1995, where Sugiki earned his MFA in Glass and Zerkowitz her MA in Art Education. Sugiki was first introduced to glass at Punahou High School in Honolulu, HI and went on to earn a BFA from California College of the Arts. Zerkowitz earned a BA in Studio Art from University of California, Santa Barbara. Together they own a studio in Seattle where they design and produce a line of studio glass collaboratively under the name Two Tone Studios. They have taught workshops and completed residencies at institutions such as The Studio of Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, and Pittsburgh Glass Center. They have lectured and demonstrated at Universities throughout the US and Japan, as well as in Korea, Australia, Ireland, Turkey, and Finland. In 2020 they relocated to Toyama, Japan, where Sugiki took on a 4-year temporary contract of Associate Professor of Hot Glass at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art. 

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