The Hot Shop
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The Glass Studio and Hot Shop is a part of the Morean Arts Center of St. Petersburg. It was at one time called the Art Club of St. Petersburg. The center offers programs for adults, children and families designed to bring out the artist in everyone.
Our ticket to the Chihuly included a visit to the Glass Studio and Hot shop to get behind the scenes and see glass artists create these beautiful works. We observed the artist gather the molten glass from the furnace, work it on a pontil pipe and glory hole before its cool down finish process in an annealing kiln. The person blowing the glass is know as a gaffer. Everyone at the demonstration gave a collective “AHH” at the end result of the demonstration.
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