08 Feb Glass Blowing Art Classes at the NFL YET Miami
From the Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/edison-liberty-city/article10616675.html
Communities in Schools of Miami, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping kids in school, hired Larry Whittaker after receiving a grant of about $6,000 from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs to bring art programs to its students in the NFL Youth Education Town near Liberty City. An orange-blue flame shimmers in the dark as students start to fill a small room at the NFL Youth Education Town in Liberty City.
Together, the children and young teens stare in amazement as Larry Whittaker stands behind a torch gently running a glass rod in and out of the fire as it slowly bends and melts into a small glistening bird.
As the glass figure takes shape, Whittaker looks up at his students and asks, “Who is next?”
All the children raise their hands.
For two weeks, Whittaker has been teaching the art of glassblowing to students in fourth- to eighth-grade at the NFL YET in Gwen Cherry Park.
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