MATTHEW ESKUCHE began flameworking in 1998. He has evolved as an artist under the tutelage of Emilio Santine, Cesare Toffolo and Andre Gutgesell. Matt exhibits his work annually at the American Craft Council show in Baltimore, MD. Thomas Riley Galleries shows his work and represents him at the SOFA Chicago and New York exhibitions. Matt has demonstrated at the Glass Art Society's conference in Australia and St. Louis, MO. In 2006, he taught classes and workshops for Corning, Urban Glass, Penland, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, Arcata Glass school, the Eugene Glass School, Technolux, and the Glass Furnace in Istanbul, Turkey.