Photosensitive glass is manufacture in rods that are combatable with soft glass that is now use by most  hand glass blowers.  It is sandwiched in between clear and white glass in a hand blown art piece.  Great care is take to minimize and contact with light or the piece will not developed correctly.  When the glass is removed from the kiln in the morning it is all white.  An image is drawn on the glass with a medium that resist light.  It is then exposed to a sun lamp for 20 to 40 minutes and image is removed.  The piece is placed in a kiln and ramped up to 1050 degrees until the latent image appears.  The kiln is now ramped down to room temperature over a period of eight to ten hours depending on the thickness of the glass

                                          Jennifer Bauer

Jen Bauer has collaborated with Fireweedglass on designs for our glass since 2003.  Her background in lithographs shows in her striking designs on the photosensitive glass which requires negative pictures on the glass.  Jen’s  work is shown on plates  3-P and 4-P .

Jen Bauer received her Bachelor's in printmaking at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado. She is currently a member of Seattle Print Arts, as well as a renter and student at the Sev Shoon printmaking studio in Ballard, a suburb of Seattle. Bauer's work is finely drawn and emotionally heavy. In a style resembling surrealism and symbolism, she addresses her fears concerning death, the destruction of beauty and other universal issues of change using mythological and classical symbols.