Monday, January 04, 2010

A Shout Out to Lampworkers

The community of lampworkers/flameworkers/torchworkers - call us what you will - is small, but closely knit. We need to be - an artist's life is a perpetual gamble against extremely long odds.

In this case - Michelle Goldstein.

Read this post - and see if you can do anything to help.

2 comments:

  1. Dwyn, I'm sitting here in front of this not knowing what to do next. I just posted something in my blog for fundraising for the AGLF. At the same time I don't know how much longer I'm going to have a job. I very much appreciate you taking time to ask for help for a friend - at the same time when I just asked for help for lampworking friends, but in a different perspective and area.

    I love you doing this. We all have to stick together.

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  2. What you do, is you do what you can, to the best of your ability and circumstance. That's all we CAN do.

    FWIW, I think that Science is as important as Art; science makes living possible, art makes it worthwhile. I'm saddened by your loss of funding - I hope it works out well for you and all concerned.

    For anyone interested in the AGLF (Artisans' and Glassworkers' Legal Fund) - you can read about it on
    http://hilobeads.blogspot.com/

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