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Harriet and Don Herrick / Springhill Studio

Harriet and Don Herrick make a variety of fused glass pieces that are mounted in steel stands, framed as wall pieces or as window hangings. Smaller items include glass clocks, oil lamps, suncatchers and candleholders.

Victor Chiarizia / Fruit of the Fire

Since 1975 Victor Chiarizia has explored many facets of glassmaking, including blown, flameworked, cast, etched and sandblasted.Chiarizia creates limited-edition vessels and sculptures which demonstrate an exceptional use of Incalmo, a 500 year-old Venetian technique that requires the artist to create cup-shape vessels which are then connected to one another on the blow pipe. Incalmo and reverse incalmo are complex and physically demanding processes for even the most experienced glassblowers.

Chiarizia's glass is well-known for its technical innovations, organic forms and spirited colorations. His most acclaimed work includes The Botanicals, a series of sculptures with flameworked glass which is treated with multiple applications of enamels to give luster and luminosity to the vines, blossoms, fruit, human hands, and other elements that cling to amorphous hot glass vessels

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