In Diane's words, "Working with school-age children and young adults has given us a unique opportunity to encourage them to use their imaginations and create art of their own ideas.  We simply supply them with our medium of choice, glass.  The most important thing is to make everyone comfortable with these creative adventures and to work as a team.  When all these elements come into play amazing things can happen, as seen in Glass-a-bet, created by an eighth grade art class from Woodward Middle School on Bainbridge Island."  Diane Bonciolini and Gregg Mesmer are local artists on Bainbridge Island and their combined efforts are what makes up Mesolini Glass Studio (http://www.mesolini.com/).  (photo of Gregg & Diane by Cynthia Sears)

 

Glass-a-bet (1997) by Darcy Herrett's eighth grade art class with Diane A Bonciolini and Gregg Mesmer of Mesolini Glass Studio.