Jeff received his BFA Glass from the California College of Arts and Crafts; he has attended workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State, with which he maintains an ongoing working relationship.

Michael Fox has worked on R+D at Dale Chihuly Inc, as program assistant at Pilchuck Glass School and as studio manager for Benjamin Moore Inc. He has also worked with esteemed glass artist such as Dan Dailey, Richard Royal and Preston Singletary, and is now pursuing his MFA Sculpture at the California College of the Arts. Michael is impossible to fully describe.

Maryann Lipaj once described herself as "grout". Despite the humble comparison, she handles herself well in any pinch and thinks best on her feet. Maryann was the administrative director at Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan. She and Jeff stomped the same grounds of Coventry Avenue in Cleveland Heights, albeit ten years apart.

Ari Metz, while not officially a studio employee, generously lends his time as needed in exchange for a small corner of the studio. He studied painting at the University of Colorado, Boulder before realizing that he had another career to forge in the world of glass. Ari works multiple jobs and attends multiple schools simultaneously; we now assume he pursues everything in multiples.

Travis Sandoval hails from San Diego where he studied glass at Palomar College. He has worked in some of the most highly regarded glass studios in the Pacific Northwest and returned to California where he completed his BFA in Sculpture from The California College of the Arts. Travis exemplifies the idiom, "still waters run deep".

Josh Smith acquired a strong glassmaking background in production studios around the Los Angeles area and brought his family to the Bay area so he, too, could study at the California College of the Arts. He is consistently the best-coiffed glassblower in the studio.

Sky Ternahan earned his Bachelors degree in Chemistry and Physics from Reed College in 1999. He has studied glass since high school, attended workshops at the Corning Museum and Pilchuck Glass School, and worked at numerous west coast production studios including the Bullseye Glass Factory, where he was a glassblower and sheet caster. He is the proud father of Delilah Sky.

Chuck Vannatta came from the Aloha State to stucy glass and make his home in California. He owns and operates his own Oakland-based studio but occasionally finds time to lend expertise for special projects here at Jeff Benroth Glass. Despite being in California for twenty years, Chuck still wants to go "home" to Hawaii.