The Color Ignited exhibit at the Wolfe Gallery of Contemporary Art at the Toledo Museum of Art.
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The audience documents glass artist Bertil Vallien as he makes a boat-shaped glass piece.
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Glass artist Bertil Vallien makes a boat-shaped glass piece. This is how it looks before the pour.
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From left: Bertil Vallien, Leonard Marty and Brazee Street Studio's J.W. May pours hot glass into a sand mold.
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OSU's Rose McVey works on a glass piece at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion as part of a student hot demo.
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OSU's Nate Ricciuto pours glass.
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The Color Ignited exhibit at the Wolfe Gallery of Contemporary Art.
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The Color Ignited exhibit.
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David King talks about productive illusions during the Emerging Artist Presentation at the Little Theater inside the Toledo Museum of Art.
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Brazee Street Studio's J.W. May pours hot glass into a sand mold for artist Bertil Vallien.
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Ohio State University's Ted Tobler, a former Toledoan, introduces the OSU glass art students who did a student hot demo.
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OSU glass art students demonstrate a hot demo.
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Fred Wilson talks about his work, including this 2001 piece Drip, Drop, Plop, at the Toledo Museum of Art's Peristyle Theater in Toledo.
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Bertil Vallien works on a piece.
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Glass artist Bertil Vallien works on a piece at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion.
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Glass artist Bertil Vallien shows the audience his boat-shaped glass piece in progress.
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Glass art star Fritz Dreisbach autographs posters at the Schmidt Messenger Gallery.
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Ian Schmidt talks to Birthe Myers, of Pennsylvania.
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Jack Schmidt, of Schmidt Messenger Gallery.
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Dave Naito, of Brooklyn, NY, makes a flower petal at the Schmidt Messenger Gallery in Toledo.
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Richard Ritter, of North Carolina, left, and Dave Naito, of Brooklyn, NY, make a flower petal at the Schmidt Messenger Gallery in Toledo.
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From left: Bullseye Glass CEO Daniel Schwoerer and executive director Lani McGregor, and Kaplan/Ostergaard Glass Center's David Kaplan and Glenn Ostergaard talk about pieces in the Bullseye Gallery.
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Courtney Besancon, center, asks a question about a procedure in their glass planet class.
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Emma Lazor, left, gets assistance making her glass planet from instructor Emily Repp as part of the Glass Art Conference. Repp is from Brazee Street School of Glass in Cincinnati.
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Children from grades 4-8 are making glass planets as part of the Glass Arts Society Conference at the Toledo School for the Arts in Toledo, Ohio. They generated ideas from the white board.
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Michael Endo, of Bullseye Gallery, cleans and installs art inside the TSA art studio.
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Sideshow performer Eric Bang, Toledo, breathes fire during the Gallery Hop. Bang performed at the corner of St. Clair and Washington streets.
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Gene Powell, of Maumee, left, and Kelli Stegman, of Perrysburg, looking at "Desert Tank", by Ann Hymel at the Art Supply Depo on St. Clair Street in Toledo.
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Musicians Larry Meyer, left, Petr Kharchenko, and Rachel Richardson performing at the Art Supply Depo on St. Clair Street in Toledo.
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Ronald Redden, left, Megan Bremer, and Tim Ide. Bremer and Ide are with an art project called Know Rules.
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Karen Wiedman, of Auburn Hills, Michigan, looking at "Vortex 07" by Herb Babcock at 20 North Gallery.
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A glass art piece made by Bertil Vallien on exhibit at the Paula Brown Shop.
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A glass art piece made by Bertil Vallien on exhibit at the Paula Brown Shop.
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Tony Rasczyk looks at pieces of glass made by artist Leonard Marty at his solo show at Studio Eleven-Eleven.
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Diane Zitzelberger, from Perrysburg, looks at a selection of Italian art glass jewelry designed by noted architect Fulvia Notari at the Paula Brown Shop.
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Sayaka Suzuki, left, and Hiromi Takizawa, make a piece of glass.
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Hiromi Takizawa, left, and Sayaka Suzuki, make a piece of glass art during a glass blowing demonsration.
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Hiromi Takizawa and Sayaka Suzuki make a piece of glass art during a glass blowing demonsration at the Bowling Green State University Fine Arts Center. They are attaching small glass birds to the piece.
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Jason Bauer, left, helps Julia Rogers with a glass piece she was making during a glass blowing demonstration at Owens Community College.
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Julia Rogers of Norfolk, Virginia, makes a glass piece during a glass blowing demonstration at Owens Community College in Perrysburg Township. Looking on are Dick Moiel and Kathy Poeppel, of Houston, Texas, and Robin Rogers, Julia's husband.
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Christian Poulim, of Montreal, Canada, left, buying some pacioffs from Jeff Lindsay, of Cutting Edge Products of Chico, California, and Jon Zapiecki, a student at Bowling Green State University.
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Joan Freedman, of Worcester, Massachusetts, left; Peter Lewnes, of Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Marian Burke, of Greenwich, Connecticut; and Meghan Harvey, of Southgate, Michigan, in the first round of the goblet grab. The Goblet Grab, a fundraiser for the Craft Emergency Relief Fund.
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Kent Lauer, of Van Nuys, California, grinding and polishing special glass to create a faceted gem, in the Technical Display area of the Glass Art Society convention.
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Maurine Littleton, of Washington, D.C. , left, gives a portfolio review of the kiln-formed glass art of Kristin McFarlane, of Melbourne, Austrailia.
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Edith Franklin, of Toledo, left; Marian Burke, of Greenwich, Connecticut; and Vernon Brejcha, of Lawrence, Kansas after the goblet grab. Brejcha said he made the glass Burke bought when he was a student of Harvey Littleton.
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Stephen Protheroe, left, talks with Dora Garcia, center, and Gerardo Munoz Torres, both of San Antonio, Texas, about the Wet Dog Glass 135 pound electric, free-standing pot, left, for small studio glass workers. Wet Dog Glass provides the glass furnaces at the Toledo Museum of Art, Bowling Green State University and the College for Creative Studies, among other venues.
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Helen Tegeler, of Troy, Ohio, left, helps Annette Sheppard, of Corning, New York, as she makes a vessel with a dolphin handle. They are part of the Corning Museum of Glass' traveling exhibition in the Technical Display area.
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Joan Freedman, of Worcester, Massachusetts, left; Peter Lewnes, of Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Marian Burke, of Greenwich, Connecticut; in the first round of the goblet grab.
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Helen Tegeler, of Troy, Ohio, left, helps Annette Sheppard, of Corning, New York, as she makes a vessel with a dolphin handle.
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Nikki Marcel, left, from Australia, Daniel Schreiber, center, from Columbus, Ohio, and Michael Parry, right, from Holland, PA, applaud David Salvadore and his sons after their demonstration.
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Davide Salvadore, left, and his sons Mattia Salvadore, center, and Marco Salvadore, right, from Murano, Italy, work on a piece in a presentation during a GAS event in the Corning Museum of Glass Roadshow on June 14, 2012. The Hot Glass Roadshow is a mobile studio that allows artists to blow glass in virtually any environment anywhere in the world.
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Artist Robert Mickelson works on pieces of leaves made of glass which will be part of a glass sculpture shaped as a bowl during a demonstration during the GAS convention on June 14, 2012.
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Davide Salvadore reacts to applause from his demonstration during a GAS event in the Corning Museum of Glass Roadshow on June 14, 2012. The Hot Glass Roadshow is a mobile studio that allows artists to blow glass in virtually any environment anywhere in the world.
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Davide Salvadore, left, from Murano, Italy, works on a piece while his son Marco Salvadore, right, helps him during a GAS event in the Corning Museum of Glass Roadshow on June 14, 2012. The Hot Glass Roadshow is a mobile studio that allows artists to blow glass in virtually any environment anywhere in the world.
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Marco Salvadore, left, and Mattia Salvadore, right, from the Davide Salvadore Studio out of Murano, Italy, works on a piece in a presentation.
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Amy Hajdas, left, and D. Scott Patria, right, from the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, PA, looks at some the the goblets that have been dropped off for the 18th Annual Goblet Grab.
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Paul Stankard gives a presentation about his work as a part of the Glass Art Society conference at the SeaGate Centre.
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Nelli Lorch, from Jerusalem, Israel, asks Paul Stankard a question about his presentation. Stankard is one of the country's most famous glass makers, creating exquisite orbs, columns, and paperweights with floral work and other objects inside. His work is highly collectible.
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L to R Cynthia Baginski and Paula Brown of the Paula Brown Shop look over the glass jewelry of Italian artist Fulvia Notari of Antares Venezia. The shop hosted a trunk show of Antares Venezia glass jewelry designed by Fulvia Notari who made special pieces for the Glass Art Society 42nd Annual Conference.
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