Michael K. Hansen
Artists Michael K. Hansen and Nina Paladino Caron are celebrating thirty years as partners in their studio, California Glass Studio. Together they have created inspriational work that has been collected by private and corporate collectors from all over the world.
 
Michael was born in 1947 in Oceanside, California.  He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgy.  After traveling through the United States and South America, Michael decided to settle in Sacramento.  There he found himself taking a glassblowing class at a local community college taught by a friend, Nina, with whom he would have a lifelong partnership in a hot-glass studio.
 
Nina was born in 1949 in Sacramento, California.  She received a B.A. degree from California State University Sacramento in 1972.  While working on her Master of Arts degree, Nina started a glass program at Sierra Community College.  In 1977, she opened her own glassblowing studio where Michael joined her to establish California Glass Studio, Inc.