Toots Zynsky was one of the very first students to work with glass at the Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, in 1971 when it was founded by Dale Chihuly and the Haubergs.  She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1973, returning in 1979 to undertake an intensive specialist study in glass as an advanced student. Her work is represented in most international museum glass collections including the White House Collection of American Craft; the Musée des Arts Décoratifs du Louvre, Paris; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.  In 2005 she was one of the first artists to have artwork commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Speaking about her work she says: "I employ   the “vessel” as my vehicle of expression because of its basic three-dimensionality. It gives me the possibility of working in 2 and 3 dimensions at once with endless multiple surfaces and views - both interior and exterior.  Made up of thousands and thousands of colored glass threads   thermally fused together and then formed by hand while still hot, the structure of my pieces and the colour are one and the same.  It is this purity that is important to me."

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