the 1960s when a series of workshops happened here spearheaded by a ceramics professor named harvey littleton. so this is the case of works by what we would call pioneers of the early studio glass movement toledo as a city and the museum played an important role in this watershed moment in the history of studio glass, which really kind of takes us back to the early 1960s in 1962. there was a man who taught ceramics at the university of wisconsin-madison. who really? into experiment with glass and he worked with the director then at the tma the toledo museum a man named ottawa whitman to inacciate initiate a series of workshops. and the first one harpment happened in march of 1962 and harvey sent out a letter to a group of other ceramics professors around the country and invited them to come to toledo and participate. in a glass bowling workshop where they would experiment and so they came here in set up a furnace they built a furnace. 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 fib