Laurie Spieker welcomes the world to her doorstep at Grand River Glassworks. She creates fresh and imaginative contemporary glass art and warmly shares the inspiring beauty of art glass with her community through workshops offered at her Waterloo studio and retail store, a leading promoter of glass art in Waterloo Region and beyond. 

Her art is featured at UpTown Gallery, the Gallery Shop at The Clay & Glass Gallery and at King Street Gallery in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

​

Laurie was Artist Mentor for Glass Fourteen, a large-scale Public Youth Art Project, was one of nine Ontario artists chosen to participate in the first FUSION Glass Mentorship program at Sheridan College, and was chosen as the 2015 Folk-Artist-in-Residence at the Schneider Haus. Laurie is a member of the Glass Art Association of Canada and Art$Pay.