Shlomit R. Eisenstein creates hand blown decorative vessels and multi blown element sculptures.
Shlomit Eisenstein was educated in the social sciences receiving a MA degree from Tel Aviv University in 1984. After a twelve year career in education, she discovered the fascinating world of glass blowing when visiting an exhibition of Dale Chihuly's work at the Minnesota Institute of Art. This turned out to be a major turning point in her life leading her to study the art of glass blowing with Bob Toensing in Anoka Minnesota during the years 1997 – 1998.
In 1999 she returned to live in Israel where only minor glass blowing activities took place as no tradition has ever developed for this art form. The burning passion to continue the glass artistry forced Shlomit to establish her own workshop, which is housed within the artist colony at Kibbutz Ein – Carmel, south of Haifa, and was inaugurated in October 2000. The workshop, which is primarily dedicated to artistic creation, also serves 6for teaching purposes and hosts guest artists.
The workshop operates nine month per year while the hot Israeli summers are used by Shlomit to further her education and glass blowing skills abroad.
In the summer of 2001 Shlomit returned to the US to study specialized techniques with Ed Schmidt in Bellingham Washington.
In the summer of 2004, she was hosted at the Leerdam Glass Center in the Netherlands where she studied with the Dutch master glass blower Henk Verweij.
In the summer of 2006, she studied hot glass casting at the Glass Furnace school near Istanbul with Mitchell Gaudet
Her work can be seen at prestigious galleries all over the country as well as in her workshop.
Shlomit Eisenstein resides in Haifa with her husband Gadi and daughters Tayir and Hodd.