Articles for tag: Glass Blowing

Glass Blowing Techniques

Glass blowing has traditionally been known as a scientific procedure. As more people learn about glass blowing, it is becoming more of an art form. Glass blowing involves heating a glass tube to an extremely high temperature and blowing through it in a similar way that one would blow through a straw. Since the glass ...

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Buck’s Rock Camp – Summer Camp Review

Buck’s Rock Preforming and Creative Arts Camp in New Milford, Connecticut, is my favorite place in the world. It is an arts camp that includes many different activities such as Glass Blowing, Lighting and Sound Direction for the camp’s many productions, and Sculpture (metalworking). Most of these events require no commitment. You are not required ...

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Review: Ohio Renaissance Festival 2010

Located a short drive from Cincinnati, the Ohio Renaissance Festival faires well as a recreated 16th century English village. My husband and I experienced our first Renaissance faire there this weekend. Ohio Renaissance Festival Review: Food The Ohio Renaissance Festival offers a variety of comfort foods served by friendly peasants in Renaissance period dress. The ...

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Learning Glass Blowing in Seattle, WA

Ever since Dale Chihuly took the world by storm with his glass blowing techniques to create fragile, intricate works of art, people in the Greater Seattle/Tacoma area have wanted to support their fellow Pacific Northwesterner. They have also wanted to learn his craft. Glass blowing is an ancient art form accessible to the modern world ...