Rollin Karg was born in Columbus, Ohio on August 20, 1944. He spent much of his youth in Miami, Florida.
He studied at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. He worked as an Industrial Engineer before becoming an artist.
His journey into the art world began as a photographer and interior decorator. Then, he learned the art of woodworking and ceramics. In 1983, a tour of the Corning Glass company in Corning, New York inspired Karg to learn the art of glass blowing. He enrolled in a glass blowing program at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. Upon establishing his own glass blowing studio he made a series of luminous glass ball paperweights, later adding many designs to his body of work. Rollin Karg retired from glassblowing in 2020.
Rollin Karg has been commissioned to create monumental sculptures for public spaces, including but not necessarily limited to the following locations:
Colfax Avenue, Aurora, Colorado
Parkland Street, Broomfield, Colorado
River Walk, Estes Park, Colorado
Colorado Avenue, Grand Junction, Colorado
Clairemont Avenue, Decatur Georgia
City Green, Sandy Springs, Georgia
Roscoe Street, Chicago, Illinois
Walkabout (various locations) Wichita, Kansas
Hunter Street, Apex, North Carolina
Brooks Street, Wake Forest, North Carolina
Woodlands Waterway, Woodlands, Texas
The glass art of Rollin Karg is or has been exhibited and/or offered for sale in museums, galleries, auction houses, and art festivals including but not necessarily limited to the following:
Accents Antiques More, Miami, Florida
Adamm's Art Glass Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
American Craftsman Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
American Craftsman Gallery, Lenox, MA
Aurora Fox Arts Center, Aurora, CO
Austin Auction Gallery, Austin, TX
Cedar Park Sculpture Garden, Cedar Park, TX
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Decorative Arts and Antiques, Austin, TX
Dogwood Arts Festival, Knoxville, TN
Earthwood Galleries, Estes Park, CO
El Paseo Invitational Exhibition, The Gardens, Palm Desert, CA
Forest Angel Asian Antiques, Miami, FL
Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS
Karg Art Glass, Kechi, KS
Kela's Gallery Gallery, Kapa'a, Kauai, HI
Kittrell / Riffkind Art Glass, Richardson, TX
Lawrence Gallery, Lake Oswego, OR
Leland Little, Hillsborough, NC
M Phillips Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
Martin Perri Interiors, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
O'Gallerie, Portland, OR
One Of A Kind, Charleston, SC
Paul Brent Gallery, Panama City, FL
Phoenix Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Potomack Company, Alexandria, VA
Rachel Davis Fine Art, Cleveland, OH
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX
Saper Galleries, East Lansing, MI
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Wolfs, Cleveland, OH
Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA
Yesterday and Tomorrow, Portland, OR
