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Thursday, February 3, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Carey's glasses reflect the glow from the oven he built.
A large stone barn west of campus was converted to accommodate glass blowing classes.
Metal dowels help make a rippled effect in the glasswork.
if you venture west of 15th beyond lowa st. You will pass the University of Kansas Printing Building, an old stone barn its tin roof and limestone walls are like many other barns in this area, but its floor is a brick.
The barn, which formerly house could be being held by the Charnley Dairy, houses glassblowing studio of the Design Department at the University of Maryland.
By CHRIS MILLER
The studio, for four years just an idea in the mind of J. Sheldon Carey, professor of design, came from a summer course at the University made the barn available to Carey for teaching in college and a group of graduate students in ceramics have shovelled the remnants left by the barn's former occupants out and filled glassblowing equipment
The glass furnace, annealing oven and other glassblowing tools that now occupy a part of the building are constructed by Carey during a year's aabustal leave in 1988-89. During that time the State Department provides temporary space for Carey to blow glass in Lindley Hall with the understanding that he use the materials from Kansas in his work.
There are currently no heating facilities other than the glare from sunlight, and we have a minimum of equipment because of a shortage of funds. Carey said that considering the shortage of heating equipment is fortunate to have the space necessary to accommodate the equipment necessary to blow
Undaunted by the cold or leaks in the roof, Carey and the graded slab were project turned out their first glass creations in the building.
Eventually, Carey said, he hopes to have the entire building renovated, enabling students to perform in one building all processes involved in the construction of the materials involved in the work currently are being stored in the basement of the building.
In addition to the contribution of the building by the University, Carey's project is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. for equipment. Carey indicated that when enough ceramics majors developed skills in glassblowing careers, an entire glassblowing curriculum would be established.
The molten glass is made symmetrical with a water soaked wooden cup.
Kansan Staff Photos by Greg Sorber
Carey inspects his glasswork.
Philip Leese, West Vancouver, Canada graduate student, breaks off the neck of his jar from the pipe
Carey holds a special mixture of sand used to make fine works in glass. The mixture has a basement of the barn will be used for mixing sand and cutting finished pieces of glass; minimum of iron content, and other impurities, that give the glass, the glass, a green cast. The