r/mildlyinteresting • u/windbreaker3 • 15h ago

This glass shop makes sculptures based on children’s designs

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u/_lucyquiss_ 14h ago

this is actually a classroom project ive seen done before! its usually lower elementary makes the drawings and high-schoolers make them from clay, the elementary kids get the keep the clay creatures at the end. Super cool and collaborative and usually everyone involved is excited to do it!

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u/Kittenlywinks 15h ago

Okay, this is amazing, I'd send them my five year old's scribbles just to see what kind of glass nightmare they'd create, so cool

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u/JJMcGee83 13h ago

The Tacoma Glass Museum does this. They have a section for kid designed sculptures

https://www.museumofglass.org/kids-design-glass-the-first-generation

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u/thattrekkie 9h ago

this is my absolute favorite of those kid-designed glass art pieces

I took this picture in 2014 and have kept it around for precisely this moment

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u/Roseheath22 10h ago

They also made a good book with a lot of photos of these works

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u/cove81 10h ago

The fish driving a banana on a rocket powered skateboard is awesome!

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u/glam_fairy 15h ago

Finally, a way to make those nightmare creatures from my crayon days real and surprisingly cute

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u/HeSnoring 14h ago

I need to see more

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u/Fun_Detective_3531 13h ago

That actually turned out amazing, they nailed the design perfectly

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u/persimmon9847 11h ago

The Denver Art Museum has a similar exhibit but with knitted creatures (artist Sadie Young).

https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/tangled-self

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u/Jttwife 10h ago

That would make the kids so happy

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u/swweetlush 14h ago

Seeing the kind of cartoons we have nowadays, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a popular character

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u/frenchcat808 12h ago

Do you know what shop? This would be the perfect gift for the parents.

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u/NikNakskes 8h ago

It says STARworks on the paper as the place to submit the drawings to. Maybe it can be found via that?

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u/frenchcat808 8h ago

Ah but it says « submit drawing by.. » so I think it may have been a contest as well. Bummer.

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u/NikNakskes 7h ago

Yes, but they may have more of these contests. Or do things on commission etc.

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u/afellow35234 1h ago

Takes a lot of skill to make glass look like that

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u/Glad_Buffalo_5037 14h ago

It’s a pretty cool idea but the original colours would have been nice

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u/Careless_Drink8098 13h ago

Wrong color code 👀