The fine art of glassblowing is every bit as intimidating as it seems. From impossibly detailed crystalware to the idea of shaping molten glass from a furnace burning at thousand-degree temperatures—imagining anyone making/working with that is just mind blowing. But artists do. And watching them do it is just as amazing as you’d imagine. The craft of glassblowing is ingenious—and old, harking back millennia, to masters of the art perfecting their craft in workshops (in places like Italy) and handing it down to apprentices over the centuries, all the way up to today. On the island of Murano, Italy, Maestro Pino Signoretto (commonly known as the “world’s greatest glass sculptor”) performed molten glass magic making his glass horses. One of Signoretto’s students has made a name for herself: the young Brenda Baker, who started glassblowing at the age of 14 in Corning, New York, and now performs her magic glassblowing art on …
VIDEO: Glassblowing Artist Turns Molten Glass Into Lotus Flowers, Hummingbirds, and Beyond
October 27, 2021
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