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After watching a documentary about famed glass artist Dale Chihuly in the mid-’90s, Newt Grover was inspired to take up glassblowing. “I thought it was this unbelievably cool thing,” he says. “I’m somewhat impulsive, and I just want to go for it.” When Grover, who had previously worked in jewelry and neon art, started in the glassblowing game, there was nowhere to learn the technique in the Valley. The Ohio native taught himself by reading...