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Michael Hopko founded his studio in 1996 after working as an apprentice glass blower with several different artists in California. Before that he studied art at Shasta College where he took his first college course in glass in 1990. Michael is...
Jenny Byrne designs a new mermaid each year as an expression of the freedom and joy of time spent in or by the ocean. Her mystical mermaids are carved from ancient mammoth ivory and set in sterling silver enhanced with...
Created by Sharon McNamara and Paul Palango, these glass cats using fused glass are each hand cut, hand colored with crusted glass and adorned with images or splashes of dichroic glass. Kiln Art Studio is located in Chester Basin, Nova Scotia.
Dichroic glass is made when multiple ultra-thin layers of different metals such as gold or silver, and metal oxides such as titanium, chromium, aluminum, zirconium, or magnesium, or silica are vaporized by an electron beam in a vacuum chamber. The...
How did the Vikings navigate their way safely to the New World and back? Iolite, once called a “water sapphire,” has a strong pleochroism ability meaning that from one direction iolite can appear blue violet and from another direction it can...
