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Healing in Flames

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Museum of Glass presents Healing in Flames, developed and created by instructors and students of the Museum’s ongoing program Hot Shop Heroes: Healing with Fire, from September 30, 2015, to March 2016. The exhibition will include work made by soldiers in classes held at the Museum in the spring and summer of 2015. The focus of the exhibition is to celebrate the accomplishments of the soldiers during their eight-week classes and share with Museum visitors the importance of art in therapy and healing.

Most of the artists have served a tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan at least once, and many have served multiple tours. Healing in Flames gives voice to their personal and shared experiences while being deployed and deals with their feelings about war, military life, and cultural differences. Art pieces include The Final Goodbye (2015) which features a glass gun mounted between a pair of boots with a helmet resting on top of the gun barrel and dog tags hanging from the gun, similar to the way soldiers show respect for their fallen comrades in the field. Also included will be Taste of Blood and Tears (2015) which represents a monument in Iraq that honors fallen soldiers. The sculpture will sit on top of rock salt mixed with iron shavings representing the blood and tears shed by all who have served or lost loved ones in any conflict.

Additionally, there will be pieces included that are more lighthearted and representational of the technical glass working skills acquired during their participation in the program.

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