Challenge yourself to create five different art projects using different mediums and styles. Painting, sculpture, crochet, collage, etc. Is there a medium you preferred? Why? 

Day to Day

Explore different art mediums.

Find a local artist you like and contact them to request an informal interview. Prepare questions in advance and ask them about their road, advice, and more! 

Career

Interview an artist.

Browse through glassblower William Morris's website and see the different art pieces he has created with glass. What do you notice most about his glass works that's different from what you expected?

Check out the work of a glassblower.

Glass Blowers

Shape molten glass according to patterns.

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Second Interest High-Point

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Third Interest High-Point

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

First Interest High-Point

Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers

Miscellaneous Production Workers

Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic

Production Occupations

Other Production Occupations

Inspect, weigh, and measure products to verify conformance to specifications, using instruments such as micrometers, calipers, magnifiers, or rulers.

Record manufacturing information, such as quantities, sizes, or types of goods produced.

Heat glass to pliable stage, using gas flames or ovens and rotating glass to heat it uniformly.

Blow tubing into specified shapes to prevent glass from collapsing, using compressed air or own breath, or blow and rotate gathers in molds or on boards to obtain final shapes.

Set up and adjust machine press stroke lengths and pressures and regulate oven temperatures, according to glass types to be processed.

Shape, bend, or join sections of glass, using paddles, pressing and flattening hand tools, or cork.

Develop sketches of glass products into blueprint specifications, applying knowledge of glass technology and glass blowing.

Determine types and quantities of glass required to fabricate products.

Place rubber hoses on ends of tubing and charge tubing with gas.

Superimpose bent tubing on asbestos patterns to ensure accuracy.

Place electrodes in tube ends and heat them with glass burners to fuse them into place.

Strike necks of finished articles to separate articles from blowpipes.

Spray or swab molds with oil solutions to prevent adhesion of glass.

Cut lengths of tubing to specified sizes, using files or cutting wheels.

Place glass into dies or molds of presses and control presses to form products, such as glassware components or optical blanks.

Design and create glass objects, using blowpipes and artisans' hand tools and equipment.

Repair broken scrolls by replacing them with new sections of tubing.

Operate and maintain finishing machines to grind, drill, sand, bevel, decorate, wash, or polish glass or glass products.

Operate electric kilns that heat and mold glass sheets to the shape and curve of metal jigs.

Air compressors

Annealing ovens

Cutting wheels

Dial calipers

Digital micrometers

Drill presses

Electric kilns

Engine lathes

Glass blowing pipes

Glass knives

Glass lathes

Glass saws

Glass tongs

Grinders

Hand held magnifiers

Holding clamps

Induction heaters

Lapping wheels

Laptop computers

Meeker burners

Personal computers

Polariscopes

Polishing wheels

Precision files

Precision rulers

Propane torches

Protective respirators

Safety glasses

Safety gloves

Safety goggles

Sandblasters

Shears

Spot welders

Tweezers

Vacuum ovens

Vacuum pumps

Billing software

Inventory control software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

I was offered a job at an art school as a truck driver because I couldn't afford to be there as a student. I lived in a treehouse, didn't have any electricity or running water. Everything I owned was in a Fiat 128 sedan.

Glassblower/Artist

<p>In Bolinas, CA, the Roadtrip Nation team gets a bit lost on their way to film editor and Academy Award winner Walter Murch's house. Then it's off to Quincy, Oregon for the High Sierra Music Festival where they interview founder David Margulies and ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. They then head north to Seattle to interview William Morris, a glassblower and artist.</p>

William Morris

Glassblower/Artist

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William Morris

Milestones

Education

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Art

Environment & Nature

Being Creative

Hurdles

Challenges I Overcame

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