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Oct 27
Lollipop has quite a history at Lumonics
One day in 1976, Bill Pinella, the sales rep for one of the companies we bought our acrylic glass (plexiglass) from, came by with two off- white geometric shapes. They were a different kind of plastic in the polycarbonate family. Bill said the company doesn’t know what to do with them, and thought that Dorothy …
Oct 26
12 Men (1974) by Mel Tanner
12 Men (1974) by Mel TannerWhole & Its Parts One of our first restoration projects after Dorothy Tanner passed in 2020 was the 12 Men by Mel Tanner. Some of them needed some repair, and we converted them all to LED from incandescent. They are now in the performance space ( we only have room …
Oct 23
Mel Tanner Series of Star Maps
Mel Tanner created what became a series of wall pieces that could be thought of as star maps or constellations. Like so many of Mel’s wall sculptures, the art works looked flat from a distance but as you got closer, there was so much depth. Here are photos of 4 of these Star Maps, created …
Oct 07
Green Box Arts Festival
The Lumonics team was invited on Oct. 7, 2022 to explore the campus of the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, CO near Colorado Springs, at the request of Scott Levy, the executive director of the Arts Festival. It is quite a setting! …