CLARENCE, NY (WKBW-TV) — Victor Trabucco got the idea for creating glass art when he and his wife saw a glass artist at the mall. He says "Rather than buy the piece I said I could probably make it." ...

Strolling through Boulevard Mall one day, Victor Trabucco stopped to watch an artisan use flame to turn a blob of glass into a transparent figurine. Impressed, the young Buffalo ironworker thought, "I ...

History: The first glass paperweight was handcrafted in 1845 by Venetian glassmaker Pietro Bigalia. By 1861, the French had adopted and perfected the art of encasing colored glass within glass for ...

"Close-up magic is the poetry of magic," says soft-spoken Victor Trabucco, who spends his days sculpting crystal artwork in his Clarence studios and his free time practicing magic. "When you say ...

Glass is a dazzling, puzzling material. A glob of glass looks as light as a soap bubble, but is, of course, as heavy as lead. It's solid, but it looks like empty air. And because glass gathers and ...