In 1962, Harvey Littleton, a professor of ceramics at the University of Wisconsin, is reported to have held a series of informal workshops on the ground floor of the Toledo Museum of Art to explore the possibility of hot glass working in a studio. Dominck Labino, the then director of research attended the workshop and contributed his quota by way of his technical competence in later years by devising the first glass formula that melted at a lower temperature. This was also very consistent as well as suited for glass blowing by employing a small portable furnace. The collaboration that ensued between the two, Littleton and Labino unleashed a flurry of creativity not seen before in the field of glass, (Adlin 2001).