David Gappa, left, owner of Vetro Glass Blowing Studio in Grapevine, uses a cherry wooden paddle to help him shape the glass. Glass blower Spencer Crouch places the molten glass into a furnace to ...

Students and faculty work on display at GlassRoots in Newark on Wednesday August, 14, 2013. Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger NEWARK— Working with melted glass and a furnace is a hot way to spend a warm ...

Glass-blowing is different to just about everything you've seen in your life. You need a lot of skill, coordination and strength for it. To work up to the point when you make something and you can ...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — In places like Italy, glass-blowing is a life-long skill perfected in 20-year apprentices and a full-time commitment to the art. At Butte High School, though, the newly open ...

Fourteen-year-old glassblower Casey McCoy, of Delton, recently exhibited his works at art events in Kalamazoo and Delton and at the Portage Public Library -- after only three years of practice.

Next to those is another furnace where globs of formless glass sit as they are pushed, pulled, woven or blown into fantastical shapes. On a recent day, these furnaces sat cold, awaiting the ...

5 / 8: Fine art glass artist Steven Weagel watches molten glass move on the end of a blow pipe while in the furnace Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021 t the Crow Wing County Fair.

In places like Italy, glass-blowing is a life-long skill perfected in 20-year apprentices and a full-time commitment to the art. At Butte High School, though, the newly open glass-blowing studio ...