Infinity Art Glass - Benton, Kansas Infinity Art Glass in Benton, Kansas is the studio and gallery of glass artist Scott Hartley. Scott's career began as a high school biology teacher, but glass art became his passion and he began blowing glass full time in 1999. Originally, this neat old building was a blacksmith shop, but after extensive work, Scott and his wife, Gwen, opened Infinity Art Glass as a gallery and studio in 2003. Although Infinity Art Glass has a sales gallery and online sales, in a normal year, much of their sales is at shows and festivals across the county. With those shows canceled in 2020, the gallery is presently filled with much more art than normal and there is a lot to see. Scott builds his own furnaces and cooling ovens and the furnaces are kept at up to 2,500 degrees, around the clock. He normally creates art during the hours the gallery is open and visitors can watch and learn about the entire process. The morning we visited, a furnace was still heating up and instead of watching him work, we had the pleasure of Scott giving us a tour of the gallery and the studio. We love his art and purchased a Cane Eternity sculpture of our own, which is now sitting on our piano. We also admired the heart shaped, intertwined love sculptures. Many of the free standing sculptures in the gallery intertwine with other pieces.
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