Education
Beecham’s art education was taken at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Art in 1979.
Beecham’s art education was taken at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Art in 1979.
He worked for a year in 1978 at the J. & L. Lobmeyr glassworks in Vienna, Austria before returning to the United States to settle in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. There he worked from 1980 to 1985 as an assistant to Harvey Littleton. Thereafter Beecham began his own career in glass, creating in the techniques of free-blowing, fusing and carving glass.
Beecham is one of several notable glass artists who have made their home in western North Carolina.