Lisa Oakley began blowing glass in 1994. She immediately knew that glass was the creative outlet for which she had been searching. Since 1996 she has maintained her glass studio in Creedmoor, NC adjacent to Cedar Creek Gallery, a contemporary craft gallery that her family has owned and operated since she was a small child.

Lisa's work includes vases, bowls, platters and ornaments as well as necklaces, bracelets and earrings made from furnace-pulled glass beads.

She graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina with a B.A. in Psychology. She has studied glassblowing extensively at Penland School of Crafts with instructors including Robert Levin, Norwegian glassblower Willy Aanderson, Robert Gardner, Ken Carder, Joe Nielander, Charles Correll, Gary Beecham, and Dudley Giberson among others. She also studied glass in Japan.

Lisa is an exhibiting member of Carolina Designer Craftsmen.