Making studio glass in the early days of the UW-Madison glass program was a scrappy affair. Artists had to build their own tools, including furnaces, from the ground up. Learning how to handle glass was a matter of experimentation, trial and error. It all started in a homemade studio on Harvey Littleton’s Verona farm in 1962. But within a few years the university glass program moved to a Quonset hut on North Randall Street next to Jingles Stadium Bar, which became something of an “annex,” said Steve Feren, the sole faculty member for glassmaking at UW-Madison today.
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