(b. Washignton D.C., USA, 1957).
De Obaldía was born in Washington, D.C. in 1957 of French and Panamanian parentage. She studied architecture at the University of Panama and drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris before receiving a BFA in Graphic Design and Cinematography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1979. She went on to study at the Art Students League in New York City in 1982 and the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington in 1987, and has studied with such masters as the Norwegian expert in sandcasting, Bertil Vallien, and Czech master glass engraver, Jiri Harcuba. In 1990 she received the John Hauberg Fellowship from Pilchuck and first prize for graphics from the Concurso Instituto Nacional de Cultura in Panama. She has studied engraving and glass casting at Pilchuck and has participated in several glass symposia in Europe and the United States. This summer she lectured at the Glass Art Society Conference in Tampa, Florida, and examples of her wor
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