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Michele McManus
Michele McManus' hobbies have included, weaving & spinning, hand building clay forms, carving then firing in the raku
process, polymer clay, beading, and metalsmithing.
Shortly after her third year of working with glass, she decided with only 24 hours in the day she wanted to spend all
of it on glass.
"One of the things that amazes me about kiln formed glass is the visually very significant changes in every step
of the process. I am like a child waking up Christmas morning every time I open the kiln."
Michele starts with full sheets of glass. Each piece she makes has dozens, sometimes hundreds, of tiny pieces of glass.
It is fired in a kiln then worked and refired up to 6 times. She finishes the glass the same way semi-precious stones are
finished. With diamond encrusted lapidary equipment she starts with a coarse grit and using finer and finer grits she achieves
pristinely finished pieces.
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