BLENKO GLASS

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS ____________ _________________  SHOWS ~ Guests ~ Information 2006-2008 ___________ LINDA  TOBOROWSKY Radio Host Freelance Writer _______________ ROY M. STEINBERG~ Artist/ Gallery _____________ KATHRYN JOHNSON GLASER~ Educator ~ Docent ~ Co-Host _____________ KENNETH HARI ~ International Portraitist _____________ DR. HADASSAH GUTTMANN Pianist ~ Educator ___________ Junior Announcer DANIEL BURBANK _________________ Photos Page 1 - 2006 -2007 ___________________ Photos Page 2 - 2006 -2007 _____________ NINA HAND - Performer - Executive Director _____________ BOB YUROCHKO~ Musician ~ Author ~ Artist ______________ DR. THEODORE K. SCHLOSBERG ~ NJ Workshop on the Arts ______________ DR. ANITA O. SOLOMON Clinical Psychologist ~ Musician _____________ ANGELO ORLANDO, Jr. Edison Art Society ______________ LINDA VONDERSCHMIDT-LaSTELLA _____________ BARBARA GOOD - Pianist~ Soloist MyLifeTime Book ____________ RUSS McCUBBIN ACTOR - STUNTMAN ______________ NOELLE COMPINSKY TINTURIN~ Pianist ____________ A TRIBUTE to the BEATLES _____________  MARK TRAUTMAN Conductor ~ NBCO _____________ REBECCA SCOTT - Conductor- Cantabile Chamber Chorale ______________ EVA ETZIONI-HALEVY, Ph.D. Biblical Novelist _____________ The VILLAGER'S THEATRE _____________ ZITA GEOFFROY HEINZ ~ Actor _____________ HEALING THROUGH CREATIVITY _____________ DR. BERNARD ROSE ` Musician - Educator _____________ MARVIN CHEITEN, Ph.D Playwright ~ Director _____________ THE REDDING BROTHERS ~ Musicians ~ Composers _____________ BARRON ARTS CENTER --CYNTHIA KNIGHT Director ______________ LIKE-MINDED ENTERTAINMENT~ Film Makers ______________ LARRY McCULLOUGH, Ph.D. Playwright ` Musician ~ Educator ______________ ROIA RAFIEYAN~ Singer ~ Musician ~ Composer ~ Music Therapist ______________ A Tribute to MARCEL MARCEAU _____________ STEPHEN H. FOREMAN - Screenwriter- Author ___________ THORNEY LIEBERMAN~ Photographer ___________ DEBBIE HILL - Photojournalist ____________ JULIA SADD Journalist - Lyricist - Author ____________ CINDY BOGGS- Author - Instructor - Speaker ____________ BRUCE K. HALEY, Jr --Photographer _______________ AILA ACCAD Speaker ~ Author _____________ Bobby Gonzalez Storyteller ____________ Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission ___________ LEO KRAFT Composer ~ Theorist ~ Pedagogue ____________ GARY JAMES Poet - Author - Speaker ___________ Dr. MARTIN HALPERN Playwright ~ Poet ~ Composer ~ Educator ___________ BLENKO GLASS COMPANY ___________ RUTH KIRK - Author Childrens' Books ____________ POETS WEDNESDAY Edie Eustice ~ Deborah LaVeglia ____________ GRANT COOPER ~ Conductor - WVa Symphony ___________ Katelyn Dawn - Composer - Singer - Musician ___________ Gary Cohen Producing Director MIDDLESEX COUNTY'S Plays-In-The-Park ______________ PHIL PEPE Sports Writer ~ Author _____________ ROBERT CUCCIOLI Actor ` Singer ` Director Stage & Television ___________ LARRY GROCE - Singer ~ Composer ~ Executive Director of FESTIVALL~ 'When A City Becomes A Work of Art' ____________ EAST BRUNSWICK LIBRARY - A 21st Century Community Center ____________ Andy Rothstein Guitarist ~ Songwriter ~ Composer ____________

From Design to Finished Products

BLENKO GLASS COMPANY
History

The Blenko Glass Company was founded in 1893 by William J. Blenko in Kokomo, Indiana. He was born in 1853 in London's East End, on 36 Wharf Road. He worked in London glass houses when he was 13 years old and eagerly learned about glass formulation. In 1893 he came to America with the intention of starting the first glasshouse that could supply mouth blown (Antique) sheet glass for stained glass windows. At this time, all antique glass was produced in Europe (France, England, Germany) With the exception of Blenko Glass, it is still the same today.

 
Click on the image of the
Blenko Visitor's Center & Museum
(Below -  Left) for the full history of Blenko Glass.

 

 

All of the following Photos taken by
Linda Toborowsky  March  2008

BLENKO GLASS COMPANY in MILTON, WVa VISITOR'S CENTER & MUSEUM (Click on image above for BLENKO GLASS history) ___________________________________

INSIDE of the VISITOR'S CENTER (Click on Image above for more information) ____________________________________

VARIOUS SHAPES and ITEMS in the VISITOR'S CENTER ____________________________________

A FEW of the NUMBERED COLOR TILES (Click on image for closer view of colors) ____________________________________

INGREDIENTS BEFORE MIXING _______________________________________

INTO THE HOPPER and the MIXER ____________________________________

BATCHING the INGREDIENTS - SAND in the BACKGROUND _________________________

GLASS FOR RECYCLING ____________________________________

RECYLCABLE GLASS _________________________

RECYCLABLE GLASS ___________________________

VARIOUS COLORS of RECYCLABLE GLASS _______________________________

MORE RECYCLABLE GLASS _________________________________

FORMING HOT MOLTEN, LIQUIDY GLASS (Click on image above for detailed imformation and images) ______________________________________

HAND-BLOWING THE GLASS (Click on image for more information) ____________________________________

TEAM WORK and SHIFT WORK (Click on image above to see the people who help make BLENKO a SUCCESS)____________________________________

FURNACES at approximately 2,500 degrees F (Click on image above to see the people who help make BLENKO a SUCCESS)____________________________________

THE LEHR - A four hour cool down conveyer ____________________________________

TOOLS and EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING HAND-BLOWN GLASS ____________________________________

COOLED-DOWN WATER PITCHERS COMING OUT OF LEHR _____________________________________

FINISHED PITCHERS AFTER SAND-STAMPED SIGNING ______________________________________

SAND-BLAST / SIGNING THE GLASS (Click on image for closer view) ____________________________________

BLENKO GLASS SIGNATURE ____________________________________

WOODEN MOLDS TO SHAPE HAND-BLOWN GLASS PIECES ______________________________________

INSIDE THE WOOD MOLD _________________________________________

WOODEN and METAL MOLDS for SHAPING GLASS ___________________________________

GLASS CYLINDERS FOR STAINED and PLATE GLASS SHEETS ____________________________________

DEPARTMENT for MORE INSPECTION, WAREHOUSE and SHIPPING NATIONALY and INTERNATIONALY _______________________________________

'FIRE and ICE' - TRI-COLOR PIECE - 2008 _____________________________________

VARIETY OF DESIGNS _________________________________

DESIGNING DEPARTMENT / STAIN GLASS ___________________________________

A LITTLE REST BETWEEN 1st and 2nd SHIFT ___________________________________