[Magdalen] Scranton

[Jay Weigel]

We have several glass artists in our gallery at the present time, of
different styles. No glass blowers, though. We have one who does her work
with a kiln, one who makes gorgeous lamp work beads, and two stained glass
artists whose work is completely different from each other's.

I tried glass and found it not to be a friendly medium for me. Now the
closest I get to it is cutting and polishing obsidian, which is after all
volcanic glass, and occasionally glass slag, which is nearly the same thing
but manmade. Obsidian is tricky to work with and S/O doesn't like it at
all, but I find it rather friendly, if a little challenging. OTOH, he likes
agates and while I love those, they positively hate me and refuse to behave
for me on the grinding wheel, so there you are.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Glass- blown, fused and other unique applications is one of the fastest
> growing art forms today.
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 21, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
> From: Lynn Ronkainen
>
> > they have an AMAZING glass museum at  Corning (a huge and world famous
> glass manufacturing campus) that contains glass dating back to prehistory
> and as up to date as glass that is in space
>
> Yes indeed! We visited a local attraction -- Pearce glass blowing in
> Queechee Vermont this week - a small mom and pop operation compared to
> Corning -- and it's interesting to see 20-somethings making things from
> Molten glass, with with tools and glass blowing -- but wearing shorts and
> sandals and sneakers and T-Shirts, vs the safety coveralls and eye-goggles
> of Corning.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
> //killing time at the hotel in Rutland until the van takes us over to
> Amtrak for the ride home//
>
>