Leaving his Italian homeland for the United States in 1979, Lino Tagliapietra brought closely held recipes for battuto, zanfirico, reticello, pulegoso, martelé. For the next several decades in workshops around the country, he taught those glass-making techniques to Americans hungry for new skills.

In turn, his own creative appetite was nourished by the freedom he found among Americans making art. Along with his style, his career flourished. One of the world's most respected glass artists, 80-year-old Lino Tagliapietra (pronounced LEE-no Tah-lee-ah-pee-A-trah), will spend a week making glass at the Toledo Museum of Art beginning Saturday.

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