Glasson attended Southern Illinois University from 1950 into 1952, before serving two years with the United States Army during the Korean conflict. He received his BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago school in 1957, and his MFA degree from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, two years later. He was in New York in 1960, worked briefly as a mannikin sculptor, and then joined the staff of the Newark (New Jersey) Museum as an exhibits designer. In 1964 he became a member of the faculty of the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford. His first one-man exhibition in New York occurred at the Dorsky Gallery in 1966.
Among his public commissions are works for the sculpture garden at Kostanjavica na Krka, Slovenija, Yugoslavia; several pieces for the Karen Horney Institute, New York; and the Dean DeVane Memorial at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Among Glasson's honors are those awarded in Academy annuals: the Thomas R. Proctor Prize in 1985, and the National Academy of Design Gold Medal in 1986. He is a member of the Sculptors Guild, and the National Association for Safety and Health in Arts and Crafts.
