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Truly Blown Away — Humanistic Lens Looking At Glassblowers’ Creative Thinking: A Qualitative Case Study, Yugant Patra Aug 2026

Truly Blown Away — Humanistic Lens Looking At Glassblowers’ Creative Thinking: A Qualitative Case Study, Yugant Patra

The Qualitative Report

This study examines how emotional and cognitive engagement shape glassblowing artists’ decision-making and artistic outcomes throughout the creative process. Using a qualitative case study methodology, the study examines how glassblowing artists conceptualize, execute, and refine their work by balancing their artistic vision with the medium's technical demands through a humanistic lens. Five themes emerge, which are discussed: the identification with self – confronting the demons, I belong here, claiming the molten as my own, the reign of glass and from it fractures rising anew, and having a conversation with glass. The study closes with the need for continued research on …


Glass: The Material That Defines Us, Madisyn Rex Apr 2023

Glass: The Material That Defines Us, Madisyn Rex

Honors Projects

This Honors Project is an exploration of the intersections between glass science, geology, glass art, and my own personal experience with glass.


Experimental And Exploratory Thesis In Creative Glass Blowing As Art Media, Stan Flashman Nov 1971

Experimental And Exploratory Thesis In Creative Glass Blowing As Art Media, Stan Flashman

All Master's Theses

This paper along with a one man show of my work in the Fine Art Gallery is a representation of hand blown glass as an art media. The development or technical skill along with more free flowing form and spontaneous way or working was the ultimate aim of th1s study.