Story Archives of 'Glass'

Farming Glass

By Shay Zeller on Tuesday, September 6, 2005.

Glass artist Nathan Macomber moved back to his family's farm to do what any good son would do: Blow glass. The feed troughs have given way to furnaces at his family farm in North Conway, his work can be seen nationally and through the League of New Hampshire craftsmen as well.

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A Man with a Planet

By John Walters on Tuesday, May 31, 2005.

Glass artist Josh Simpson specializes in making multi-layered glass globes, with abstract geological features in them that look like planets. Some are tiny and some are about the size of a bowling ball. Josh talks about the mystery of working in glass and about his marriage to astronaut Cady Coleman.

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The Science of Art & Glass

By John Walters on Wednesday, March 9, 2005.

Artist Dudley Giberson is one of the early pioneers of the Studio Glass Movement. His interest in glass includes his artistic creations as well as sophisticated burners he both designed and patented, and which are used in studios across the country.

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The Illusion of Lightness

By John Walters on Wednesday, March 2, 2005.

Melissa Ayotte is a second-generation glass artist who's developed a successful career making glass paperweights. She follows in the footsteps of her father Rick Ayotte and shares a studio with him in Nashua.

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