In Her Words: Fay Balk Finds Her Creative Spark In Glass, Travel & Nature

While working as an HR executive and organizational design expert for the nation's largest creative company, she found her own artistic talent, which led her down a new path of self-discovery.

I love pomegranates. I think they are really pretty, and they make me think of Italy. I saw them everywhere when I visited Murano on a group trip to study glassmaking. On a side visit to a vineyard in Prosecco, I noticed a dwarf pomegranate plant at the entrance to one of the outbuildings.

Now I’m working on a glass sculpture of a dwarf pomegranate plant…