Dee Crouch, MD is a longtime Boulder resident who transitioned from a 22-year career in emergency medicine to a full-time career in art. After retiring from medicine in 1990, he earned his MFA from the University of Colorado in 1993, completing a 50-foot ice tower as his thesis project—a large-scale conceptual and performance piece that sparked over a decade of related sculptural work.

As warming winters made ice-based installations increasingly difficult to execute, Crouch sought a new medium that offered both physical and creative challenge. In 2003, he discovered hot blown glass and has been exploring its expressive potential ever since. A graduate of the renowned Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, he now works daily at Nodrog Studios in Arvada, Colorado.

Crouch’s career spans disciplines, scale, and material, unified by a continued fascination with form, transformation, and the physical act of making.