Alumnus Cory Ballis has been blowing glass for the past twelve years, a passion that ignited during his time at Fresno State.

“I was earning a degree in Business Marketing and I needed an elective. So, I took glass blowing and then fell in love with it the first day,” he said.

Ballis took as many glass blowing classes as he could before graduating from the Craig School of Business and beginning work at Fresno’s only other glass blowing company, Kliszewski Glass. Four years later, he decided to open up his own shop, sharing a space with his brother Ryan’s welding company.

Ballis Glass sits in the heart of an industrial business maze just east of Fresno Yosemite International Airport. The over-sized workshop is home to numerous works of art, created at temperatures nearly as hot as lava.

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