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Shawn Messenger graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in glass. She was among the first wave of women to receive a degree in glass from the Institute. Messenger attended the Pilchuck Glass School and studied with Dale Chihuly and Italo Scanga. She also attended Penland School of Crafts, studying with Richard and Jan Ritter and Dinah Hulet, concentrating on murrini.
This paperweight is solid glass that is hand formed using a tool called a block. Glass powders and chips are used to create the background.
A bouquet of intricate flowers and leaves-all individually created using millefiori techniques-float in this hand-formed glass paperweight.
Bouquets of millefiori—tiny glass poppies, violets, and other flowers—bloom around the vibrant orange-gold core of this blown glass vessel.
This blown glass vase is abloom with murrini flowers!