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The Science Art Nature Foundation -
A Teaching Art & Glass Studio
Celebrating
The Interconnectedness of All Things

Main account:
@glasssculpture.org
BlueSky Rescues:
@bengalmania.org
3D Modeling & Animation:
@cineforge.com
Space Art:
@imperialearth.com
Get 'em While They're HOT!
Full Impulse!
NEW in the HotShop!

Always wanted a pointy-nosed, 3 fin Rocket for the Buck Rogers in all of us? Now you can.

A Rocketship Christmas Tree Ornament in hand blown glass that you can display all year long.

A Universe of colors available.
6" - 7" long.
glasssculpture.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Get 'em while they're HOT.
In production in the hotshop:
Heirloom Blown Glass Solar System Ornaments.

Get the Whole Solar System as a set or build yours up one planet at a time for a yearly tradition.

Also: Moon, Milkyway, Black Hole, Kuiper Belt mini set, Planet 9, Europa & Titan.

glasssculpture.org/artglass/hol...
December 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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It's #Caturday !

Butters caught a Mouse!

He's s Kurilian Bobtail. The breed originated in Russia. Rare within the US.

He's my guardian. First thing in the morning when I open the window to the cat flap, he goes out into the kittenclosure to make sure it's all safe for everyone to go out.
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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As do we.
I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Our long-standing Allegany Artisans Studio Tour, on the 18th and 19th, now end up coinciding with No Kings #2. As such, we'll have to be in the glass studio hotshop, as opposed to showing our support.

Rest assured, we do and we'd be there if we could.

bsky.app/profile/glas...

glasssculpture.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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It's #caturday !
Our Winky returned home. Her sister Zot misses her, searching through the house.

Later, as our grief subsides some, we'll go out to our hotshop and blow a glass kittyface urn for her ashes.

Right now, I know we'd not be able to get very far before our vision would be obscured.
October 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Substack #2: A One-Sided Coin
open.substack.com/pub/johnsoni...
A One-Sided Coin
Always Comes Up Heads
open.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Meanwhile in India…
Guess you could call it #MonkiesMonday
René Volpi (@renegvolpi)
Meanwhile, in India…
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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My First Substack:
Executive Order to Fly Flags at Half-Staff?
With A Slight Amendment...
Executive Order to Fly Flags at Half-Staff?
And A Slight Amendment...
substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Happy #TunaTuesday
from Watson, who's decidedly had his share of Tuna!

After grabbing this I tried for a really great shot that captured his full shadow stretching across the floor toward me, but was beseged by many other #cats "helping" by sequentially getting in the frame and ruining it. #catsky
September 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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It's #Caturday - Moonlight 🐈 Stressing Out Again

Turned from doing the dishes and met with this. What a hoot.

Takes the stress out of one's day. (He isn't, so why should we be?)

We're dealing with Covid-19 here, picked up at #WorldCon during our #HUGOs delivery.

Gotta take the bad with the good.
August 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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✨A HUGO First! ✨

💡 IT LIGHTS UP!!! 💡

1: Presentation On-Stage
2: Naomi Kritzer holding her #hugo with glow visible
3: Neil Clarke’s #HugoAward

#naomikritzer #clarkesworld #GlassSculpture #award #WorldCon #Seattle #glassblowing

Full story of all of our #HUGOs on glasssculpture.org/awards/hugo/
August 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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August 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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More recipient photos @ the #HUGOs
August 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Even More Photos @ the #HUGOs
August 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The 2025 #HUGO Award Revealed at #WorldCon Seattle

Carved wood depicting Mount Rainier. Blown glass mountain rests atop the carving, surrounding the HUGO Rocket fins. The glass colors echo the carving within.
Full story & #animations @ glasssculpture.org/awards/hugo/
#glass #sculpture #glassblowing
August 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I've Got A Gold Record On The Wall!
Reading this from many years ago, I was taken aback.
blog.imperialearth.com/art/ive-got-...
Some things are meant to be shared. One never knows where they may lead or how many lives have been touched.
#coverart #albumcover #goldrecord #publicenemy #defjam
I’ve Got A Gold Record On The Wall!
One never knows what awaits just around the corner. Or for how long it has waited. In 1990, I was contacted by Def Jam Records to do the cover of Public Enemy's upcoming release: Fear Of A Black Plane...
blog.imperialearth.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Darn! I missed #Caturday !

Moonlight stressing out as usual.
August 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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It’s #WhiskersWednesday!
Moonlight’s Fantastic Feelers!
July 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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It’s #Caturday
Moonlight, still chillin’. Wheels in the air as always. Not a care in the world. Would that I could be him of late.
#cats #tuxedo #rescue #stray #sanctuary #abandoned #shelter #donation #wishlist #nonprofit
July 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Brave #NASA workers speak out -

🔻 Trump’s gutting science
🔇 Silencing experts
🧨 Undermining safety

This is the Voyager Declaration. Support the signatories here ➡️ zurl.co/tCU2Z

zurl.co/Sh6n0
Hundreds of Nasa workers rebuke ‘arbitrary’ Trump cuts in scathing letter
Nearly 300 current and former employees signed the letter criticizing the ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at the agency
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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The Cover Art for James A. Michener's novel: SPACE. Was really fun walking through airports as I traveled and seeing it on display in the shops.

#michener #art #covers #bookcover #coverart #space #spaceart #spaceprogram #spacecraft #mercury #gemini #apollo #shuttle #iss #orbit #airbrush #miniseries
July 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
More on the 3D model of our studio to be built on San Juan Island. sanf.org
#3Dmodel #glassstudio #gallery #hotshop #woodshop #coldworking #glasssculpture #glassart #artgallery
July 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM