I think I made a successful first run at glass, I am very happy with my blown mold brains and spinal cord. I am very excited to put them together and have a final piece to show. I did not like working with the sheet glass, there were just to many issues for me. I found my experience working with glass very frustrating because I found myself feeling very useless at times because there was nothing more we could do but watch them hit our molds or pour the glass. It would have been a bit more interesting if we could have been involved more in those aspects. I feel that I only learned a little bit about what glass can really do, but that’s hard in a 7 to 10 week span. I would defiantly like to learn more about glass blowing and even the blow molds. So I really hope they are able to get the glass blowing class up for us soon. I think that would really be interesting as far as my style of work goes. I’ve always had an appreciation for glass as a craft but now I think I have even more respect for it as a craft and the craftsman.

Kelly Johnston