SHEER BEAUTY
Agnes of Glass
2717 E. 40th Ave., Denver
303-399-4066 glassartists.org/Agnesofglass
Agnes Sanchez built her own glass furnace, and now she’s building buzz for the promised arts studio community in gritty Elyria/Swansea with her huge functional and funky decorative hand-blown glasswork. You can visit and buy objects like vases and chunky glass tiles swirled with color and marvel at her huge Medusa chandeliers. She works at the studio most afternoons, but call before you go.
VIEW MASTER
Colorado’s Hidden Wonders
$19.95, collierpublishing.com
Following in the footsteps of his great- great-grandfather, pioneer photographer Joseph Collier, Lakewood shooter Grant Collier went looking for the mostly unsung natural wonders of Colorado. What he found is collected in a slim, hardback volume of color photos that celebrate Mother Nature’s folly and the way it has shaped our state’s vast landscape.
GIRL TALK
Tomboy Tools Pink Hammer
$14.95 tomboytools.com
For years, Denver- based Tomboy Tools resisted making their sized-for-women hand tools pink. Too much stereotype wrapped up in that. But when it’s pink with a purpose? Well, that’s something the woman-owned company says it could get behind. On Friday, Tomboy Tools launched a scheme to donate $6 for every pink hammer sold – a minimum of $600,000 by Aug. 30, 2007 – to help the Susan G. Komen Foundation hammer out breast cancer.
