Article Link: http://www.theunion.com/article/20091115/FE…

Born in Israel and raised in San Francisco, Lewin holds a bachelor of arts degree in painting and printmaking from California State University, San Francisco, and a master of fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute.

It was glass blowing, however, that captured his imagination.

“I had to take a class outside my major at San Francisco State,” he explains with a shrug.

That turned into a 25-year career that ranged from teaching at the Tokyo Glass Art Institute to working as an artisan at the Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, New Jersey, to his own art glass studio in Philadelphia.