Artist Mike Roff, top, uses a tube to create a glass pumpkin. Right, the glass pumpkin is placed into a burner, where the glass is moved into and around the flame.Above, the finished product includes a curly stem coming from the glass pumpkin.
Similar works of art will be featured at the
Great Glass Pumpkin Patch exhibit outside the Palo Alto Art Center on Saturday. The exhibit is a preview to a glass pumpkin sale Oct. 19.
The event raises funds to support the Bay Area Glass Institute.