The mission of Gordon Huether's studio, founded in 1986 in the Napa Valley in Northern California, is to contribute to the emergence of glass as a fine art medium and to help evolve its use, as well as the use of metal and other non-traditional media, together with the traditional fine art palettes of painting and sculpture. The studio is composed of principal Gordon Huether, who is a painter, glass artist and sculptor; various guest artists, and numerous expert craftspeople. Gordon Huether and his associates apply the fine art sensibility and techniques usually found on canvas or in small art pieces to large-scale glass and metal installations and freestanding sculpture.