Leo Tecosky is a glassblower crosspollinating techniques and reorganizing traditions using principles of the hip hop canon. The movement's four elements — DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti writing — are the foundation of the culture, and using glass Tecosky has become a purveyor of the craft. Adding elements of blowing, cutting, enameling, and illuminating, Tecosky builds on the framework of hip hop expression with the material of glass to open minds to different knowledge.

Already embroiled with hip hop since an early age, as a teenager Tecosky found work in a blacksmith's shop and then studied sculpture and glass at Alfred University, earning a BA in Fine Art followed by an MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts. Tecosky has participated residencies at the Toledo Museum of Art, Stockholm Glas, and the Pittsburgh Glass Center. Tecosky is the recipient of the 2021 Rakow Commission, which supports the development of new works of art in glass, and has works in the collections of the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Corning Museum of Glass. Tecosky lives and blows glass in Brooklyn, New York.