Glen William Lukens (1887–1967) was an American ceramicist, glassmaker, and jewelry designer born in Missouri.
[1] Lukens helped pave the way for ceramics today as an awarding winning ceramicist and teacher.
[3] He spent eight years of his life searching for alkaline metals in the Mojave Desert that would help him discover and create a new blue glaze.
[3] Lukens' main focus was in glazes and colors because he tended to use molds to make his actual clay bodies.
[2] Lukens later spent fifteen years as a writer and illustrator for the magazine Popular Ceramics.