they didn't know how to melt glass and so they went to a local scientist a man named dominic libino who worked at a company called john's manville that made fiberglass and they began to experiment there was a retired glass blower named harvey leafgreen who worked at libbey he came in and helps them kind of get the hang of what one does with the blow pipe and they glue things like these three objects that you see laying on the deck here. they might look like they're rather primitive, but the idea here was these people were experimenting with boss making harvey would go on to develop a very sophisticated body of work and other artists that you see represented in the the case. we're also making glass in the 1960s and 1970s. so when harvey had these workshops, he had this successful moment in experimenting with glass. he returned to his campus in wisconsin and set up the first university program in the country for teaching glass blowing others. would then follow while you still see in many people's work the focus on the traditional glass form like the vessel. you also see this tremendous ra