**3rd Place, Artwork Valued Over $1k**

Concrete Cannon by Christopher Figueroa

This cast glass spray can was created to encapsulate the imagery I saw as a youth growing up in Los Angeles. Walking the streets of LA was like perusing a gallery of local artists every day, each indulging in painted imagery while employing their respective styles and techniques. Seeing these pieces as a child was my first exposure to art and my first spark of curiosity as a delinquent artist myself, so much so that I often regard my juvenile adventures tagging the city as my beginning in glass, over a decade before I found it. When I first started experimenting with cast glass as a glassblower, I knew I wanted to make a tribute to my beginnings in art, so I chose the tool from those beginnings as my focus. Glass flows and spreads, both akin to and yet wholly different from glass, so I wanted to enshrine that movement on the surface of the can, showing the similarities between the media. Concrete Cannon shows the unexpected first tool that informed my glass journey.

Dimensions (in. WxHxD): 7.5 x 2.5 x 2.5

**1st Place Winner, People's Choice**

I Open My Heart by Art By Armani

"I Open My Heart" is an exploration of self love and sacrifice. Featuring different stained glass layering techniques and enmel paint to add depth shown in the mushrooms and ladybugs that inhabit this piece. This piece comes straight from the heart, it is a full oepning of the jewelry box that is ourselves. I encourage you to listen to the song that encourages this piece: "Open my heart" by Sweet Boy.

Dimensions (in. WxHxD): 16.5 x 24 x 16.5

**3rd Place, Artwork Valued Under $1k**

90's Punk by Rose Glass Art - Angela McHale

Zenon/Krypton plasma vessel with liberty spikes

Dimensions (in. WxHxD): 7x8x3

**2nd Place, Artwork Valued Over $1k**

The Found Specimen by Lindsy Marshall

The Found Specimen is an installation that highlights the connection between glass and geological transitions. The Found Specimen aims to focus on the changes within minerals and materials that create slow differences within shape, form, and appearance due to elemental shifts to show how important time and pressures are. This sculpture is created with both blown and kiln formed techniques and uses mica and enamels. I blown certain shapes to then use heat and time to create a movement within the finished piece.

Dimensions (in. WxHxD): 36 x 20 x 12

**1st Place, Artwork Valued Over $1k**

Guiro Bottle Pair by Eric DePan

Eric DePan's Guiro Bottle Pair combines sophisticated layered color with rhythmic carving inspired by the ridged percussion instrument of the same name. DePan first builds layers of color through a demanding "stuff-cup" glassblowing process, blows each vessel to form, and then moves to the carving lathe, cutting repeated grooves across the surface. Those cuts reveal buried colors while also creating a tactile, potentially percussive surface.

Born in Houston, DePan pursued glass through programs at Penland, Haystack, and the Corning Museum of Glass, followed by work experiences that took him from Alaska to Murano, Toyama, Japan, and Sam Stang's Augusta Glass Studio. The pair is particularly satisfying together: related but not identical, one dark and compact, the other elongated and olive green. They turn rhythm, repetition, color, texture -- and even the idea of sound -- into sculpture.

Dimensions (in. WxHxD): 17/12 x 5 x 5