For years, I’ve been talking about ways to elevate the glass scene in Buffalo, never knowing that there was a well established local leader in the realm who first set up shop in 2009. It was glass ...

Ellen Mead creates flowers, beads, and small jars, using the ancient art of lampwork. The history of manmade glass, according to the Corning Museum of Glass, is about 4,000 years old. The term ...

WATERLOO – In lampworking, an oxygen-propane torch is used to melt and shape molten glass using simple tools and gravity. After three weeks in her first class in making lampwork beads, Rhonda Scott ...

Chris Buzzini makes lampwork paperweights, encasing tiny glass flowers inside more glass. Oregon City’s Chris Buzzini keeps the 150-year-old craft of lampwork paperweights alive. These crystalline ...

"Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine." Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930- ), sculptor VALLEYFORD – Rudy Rooster, Chief Hot ...

Glass art brings together four very different techniques. Fusing, as its name suggests, "fuses" pieces of glass together. It is the most accessible form of glass art and great for beginners.

They number Kirstie Allsop and Miriam Margolyes among their fans and have been admired in one of the world’s leading glass factories. Later this month, Jane Sherwood’s fabulous lampwork bead jewellery ...