TIFFIN, Ohio — A local artist in Tiffin is working to keep the 419 tradition of glass blowing alive and well through glass art classes. For four years, Ryan Poignon has been working out of a Perry ...

"It's nothing right now to me, but first I was like I can make this? Now I know how to make vases and cups and bowls," instructor Deaunata Holman said. Holman also knows how to fight fire with fire.

HOUSTON – After the popularity of the Netflix show ‘Blown Away,’ more and more people have gotten interested in the art of blowing glass. Glass artist Will Jackson at Juggernaut Glass in the Heights ...

Dennis Gardner stands under a small Musikfest tent, his back to blazing kilns. He blows into a hollow pipe and inflates a glowing glob of molten glass on the other end. Then, clock ticking, his dance ...

For Nikolaj Christensen, manager of East Falls Glassworks, glassblowing wasn’t always part of his career path. While finishing his senior year at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., a friend ...

He’s been hooked ever since he joined a high-school field trip to see a mobile glass blowing unit at Southern Illinois University. “At however old I was in junior year — 16, 17 — I was like, ‘Yeah, ...

Room 427 in Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry has its torches, lathes, Bunsen burners and ovens. From the doorway, it appears to be the mix between an art studio and scientific lab. For Jordan Smith, ...

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 ...