From Forest to Furnace: Dan Friday Continues Tradition in Glass

A man in glasses and a blue and black leaf patterned button up holds a metal rod with a glowing orange mass of glass at the far end.

Dan Friday, a member of the Lummi Nation, has been creating glass art drawn from his Coast Salish heritage for 30 years. The heat hit him first. Furnaces roared and metal tools clanged as molten glass glowed in barely controlled shapes. Dan Friday hadn’t come to the hot shop for a class or to buy […]