Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...
Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...
Traditional neon signs are made from glass tubes that are carefully bent by hand into specific shapes. Those tubes are filled ...
Neon signs aren't as popular as they used to be, but that's not stopping a craftsman in Ohio from creating the vintage lighting. Neon signs used to line highways and Main Streets across the United ...
Neon Club bends, twists, heats, sculpts and brings light to ASU’s art galleries. The club introduces a different type of sculpting that involves the creation or restoration of neon signage, as well as ...
SAN FRANCISCO - "It's like trying to hold a wet noodle straight," says Adam Taylor, a glass bender at Oakland's Neon Works. He's been bending neon into shape for seven years, but has only been good at ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The art of neon lights is still alive and well. You can call them glowing, luminous or even blazing, but you can't call them in danger. As CBSN New York's John Dias reports, ...
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TACOMA, Wash. — At the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, a new exhibit celebrates what women are doing with neon, taking the art form far beyond the greatest beer sign you've ever seen hanging in a bar. "Our ...