Glass
artist Judith Shapiro works in her studio near Washington, DC. She has studied
glass at Pilchuck Glass School, the Studio at Corning, and in workshops around
the country. Her work is exhibited nationally and held in private collections,
including the Lincoln Center in New York. Judith and her husband, Moulton Avery,
also produce a popular line of Dichroic glass jewelry under the name Zero
Gravity GlassThe brilliant Dichroic optical properties of Dichroic glass are the result of multiple micro-layers of metal oxides. These thin layers of oxides have a total thickness of three to five millionths of an inch.
NASA developed Dichroic glass for use in satellite mirrors. Multiple ultra-thin layers of different metal oxides (gold, silver, titanium, chromium, aluminum, zirconium, magnesium, silicon) are evaporated on to the surface of the glass in a vacuum chamber.
The resulting plate of Dichroic glass can then be fused with other glass in multiple firings. Certain wavelengths of light will either pass through or be reflected, causing an array of colors to be visible. Due to variations in the firing process, individual results can never be exactly reproduced, each piece of fused Dichroic glass is unique
A Sally Comment: Each piece
is totally unique !
No two pieces can ever be alike ! 
