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Arts Jun 19

Glass artist Dale Chihuly’s exhibit takes inspiration from Arizona’s desert landscape

By Mike Cerre

Arts Oct 11

Master glassmaker Simone Cenedese uses a blowtorch on a piece of commissioned work at his family's furnace on the island of Murano near Venice January 27, 2009. Murano glass has been prized through the centuries for its refined beauty, but the credit crisis is threatening to shatter the fading Italian craft industry. Relentless competition from China and other producers and a strong euro that killed the U.S. market for its fine glass are the key culprits in cutting sales in half and the loss of about 75 percent of the sector's jobs in the last few years. But the financial crisis has dried up even the reduced sales at the glassmakers that line the canals of the Venetian island of Murano and raised stark questions about the future of the 700-year-old industry itself. Picture taken January 27, 2009. Photo by Chris Helgren/REUTERS
Murano glassblowing model shattered by methane price surge

Dozens of furnaces that remain on the lagoon island must burn around the clock, or the costly crucible inside the ovens will break. But the price for methane that powers the ovens has skyrocketed fivefold.

By Colleen Barry, Associated Press

Arts Sep 08

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Forging art and business in Dale Chihuly’s workshop

Artist Dale Chihuly has become synonymous with reimagining what glass can do. Having long ago stopped blowing glass himself, at 75, he heads an art world enterprise at his Seattle studio. But using a team of artists to create his…

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Arts Nov 18

Looking at a marriage through (the art of making) rose colored glass

Barbara and Larry Domsky, the married couple behind Domsky Glass, have been married for 20 years. They work together to produce a wide range of glass and metal structures from large-scale installations like that in McCarran International Airport to gallery…

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Nov 18

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Fusing a marriage with metal and glass

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Dec 11

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Patchwork Nation: Looking for Treasures in Lincoln City

By Anna Shoup

Hand blown glass floats can still be found and made on Oregon's Central Coast. Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez tests his skill at creating his own.

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