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bjbj Tina Oldknow: What you are looking at is what we call an installation of eighteen
blown glass boats by the Italian artist LinoTagliapietra. Each of the boats is suspended from the ceiling
by a steel cable and they float in the air much like the gondolas of Tagliapietra s native
Venice float on the water. Kid: I love how the guy that steers the gondola sings to you
while you are floating along. Narrator: Listen and you will hear the artist singing in his
studio while he works. Young Lino began learning how to blow glass when he was 11 years old
and by the time he was 21 he had earned the title of maestro, master glass-blower. Kid:
He became a master in just 10 years? That is like getting your black-belt in karate.
Tina Oldknow: In 1979, when he was 45 he boarded his first plane to the United States. He came
at the invitation of Dale Chilhuly, a very well-known American glass artist to teach
at Chihuly s school in Washington State called Pilchuck Glass School. He returned to the
United States every year and also traveled abroad to teach students Venetian glassblowing
techniques. Narrator: Lino loves to teach others to see and think about glass objects
as works of art. And he generously shares his knowledge and his experience with those
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