Jen Violette first began working with glass at Alfred University in 1991 at age 18, and has been working with molten glass for the past 30 years. She received her BFA in Glass and Metal Sculpture from Alfred University School of Art & Design in 1994. She continued to pursue her glass art education through courses at Pilchuck Glass School, The Corning Museum of Glass, Rhode Island School of Design, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Penland School of Crafts. She has been very fortunate to have studied with many of the best glass maestros in the world, including Lino Tagliapietra, William Morris, Pino Signoretto, Dante Marioni, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Martin Janecky, Richard Marquis, Randy Walker, Kait Rhoads, Jasen Johnsen, Stephen Dee Edwards, Fred Tschida, Walter Lieberman, and Brian Pike.

Violette was a featured guest artist at the Corning Museum of Glass Ampitheater Hot Shop in 2017 & 2018, and also taught a Creative Glass Sculpting Techniques class at the Corning Museum of Glass in 2018. In May 2019, she was a guest artist at Public Glass in San Francisco and in November 2019, she was a featured glass artist on the Corning Museum Mobile Glass Studio Stage at SOFA Chicago 2019.

Violette is a full time glass and mixed-media artist based in Wilmington, Vermont. Her work is greatly inspired by nature. She is an avid gardener and has always been fascinated by plant structures and enjoys studying and examining nature's unique colors and forms. She is passionate about using molten glass to recreate these subtle details found in nature, and welcomes the challenge of figuring out how to recreate them in glass. Her pieces are composed of hot glass gathered from the furnace. She uses multiple layers of glass powders to mimic the plant colors and textures found in nature.