VETRO VERO
Vetro Vero is our internationally recognized line of luxury glass objects, tableware, and vessels. Designed entirely in-house and blown in limited production cycles, each piece balances traditional glassblowing heritage with a sleek, contemporary aesthetic. Driven by an uncompromising commitment to design and a rigorous devotion to glass, Vetro Vero objects are made to celebrate the material, advance the craft, honor function, and enrich interior spaces.
The Founders
Michael Schunke is widely recognized for his technical fluency and rigorous pursuit of form. His sharp focus on the relationship between line, volume, and silhouette provides the formal architecture for Vetro Vero designs.
Josie Gluck designs objects shaped by material, utility, and context, exploring the relationship between form and place. She brings a sensitivity to color and atmosphere that defines the studio’s distinct palette and aesthetic direction.
Together, we unite technical fluency and thoughtful design. Vetro Vero is built on our shared commitment to rigorous craft, a passion for design, and the enduring joy of making glass.
Individual Studio Practices
Beyond our collaborative designs and custom fabrication services, The Bellus Barn houses our individual studio practices.
This is where we step away from production to experiment, research, play, and pursue the sculptural and material potential of glass.
JOSIE GLUCK
Josie Gluck is an artist, educator, and co-founder of Vetro Vero, a contemporary glass studio based in western Massachusetts. Gluck’s practice explores process, memory, and embodied experience through repetition, line, and material investigation. Her work often traces the relationship between process and object, allowing repeated actions and layered interventions to become records of movement, time, and connection
Gluck received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has spent nearly three decades working in glass as both a maker and educator. She was the 2024 Creative Fellow at Canberra Glassworks in Canberra, Australia, and has taught at institutions and programs including Penland School of Craft, Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Through both teaching and making, Gluck explores how glass holds memory, invites connection, and transfers meaning.
MICHAEL SCHUNKE
Michael J. Schunke is an artist, designer, educator, and co-founder of Vetro Vero, a contemporary glass studio in western Massachusetts. Working across sculptural and functional glass, his practice explores form through a rigorous approach to refinement, emphasizing the relationship between line and volume to create objects that balance technical precision with personal meaning.
Schunke attended the Tyler School of Art and has spent over three decades dedicated to glassmaking and the pursuit of form. His work is informed by material fluency between interior and exterior space, often pushing the physical limitations of skill and glass to achieve expressive and technically ambitious forms.
Schunke has taught glassmaking internationally and served as Professor of Glass at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art in Toyama, Japan. His teaching experience includes institutions and programs such as Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Penland School of Craft.
His work has been recognized through fellowships and residencies at the Creative Glass Center of America, the Museum of Glass, and the Toledo Museum of Art. His artwork is held in collections such as the Toyama Museum of Glass, Toledo Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of American Glass, and Glasmuseet Ebeltoft in Denmark.