Mary Ann "Toots" Zynsky (b. 1951) originally from Boston, is a glass blower who began her career in ceramics, receiving her B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1974.
She has also studied at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. Zynksy was a pioneer at both the famed Pilchuck Glass School - where she studied with Dale Chihuly - and later, at New York's Experimental Glass Workshop, where she worked as a teacher. She is best known for her filet de verre technique, which she developed in 1982. Filet de verre is the process of pulling glass threads from hot glass canes. It gives her work a unique quality that had never before been achieved in glass.
