Name: Turning Glass Into Art at 900 Degrees
Uploaded: 2020-03-12T08:40:14.000Z
Duration: 9 min 50 s
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A lot of artists talk about this thing called flow

You wanna be in tune with the movement of the glass.

We're in my glass studio in Broadway, Virginia

which is located in the Shenandoah Valley.

are turning on the ovens and prepping my tools.

I'm gonna be putting it into the charging chute.

I've got a crucible inside the chamber of the furnace.

It maintains a temperature of about 2,000 degrees.

After I've got the equipment coming up to temperature

It's not a paint, it's actually colored glass

which can then be sawed up into chunks for me to preheat

Then I will gather up a little bit of glass

so we need to know where all the colors are

and they have a specific slot in the pipe warmer.

I'm gonna turn the pipe into my clear glass

and wind it onto the end of the blow pipe.

And we count our gathers so we know how much glass we have.

So I'm gonna be taking a gather of clear glass.

I'll go right into my crushed up white color,

Then I'm going to shape and cool that bubble

to accept the color that my assistant Chad

is then gonna bring over to me at the bench,

where I'm going to be directing the color where I want it

that I can get a really nice crisp circle.

And so whenever I even talk about glass blowing

I'm always talking about painting with the glass.

Art history and nature, these are my biggest influences.

The glass blowing bench is where the gaffer sits.

I've been able to work with Chad Kaufman for five years now.

The thing about glass blowing is years of practice.

It can take up to 10 years to actually become skilled

I listen to the radio when I'm alone in my studio.

And there was a speech from the president

asking America at large to help our veterans

And so I thought, what if all the glass studios I know about

came together and offered a class to veterans

All of the studios, they all jumped on it.

I started with 25 schools across the country

and it's been going on for three years now.

I'm going to encase the color with one more gather of clear.

When I take that gather I immediately go to the bench.

We block that gather and we're gonna be cooling it

and shaping it so that the bubble will blow evenly

The wooden blocks are made out of hardwood.

It's like a ladle and it needs to be kept wet.

Because it's wet when it touches the glass

The steam will take the heat away from the block

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Turning Glass Into Art at 900 Degrees

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