“Are you lubricated?” Alyssa Oxley asked a student in her fused-glass class at Burlington’s Davis Studio on Wednesday night.

She suspected he wasn’t. Instead of making a satisfying “zip” sound, his glass cutter was screeching across the surface of his mud-colored material. He pressed the cutter into a small sponge doused in paint thinner and got back to work.

Ziiiiiip!

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Megan James began writing for Seven Days in 2010, first as Associate Arts Editor. She later became an editor for Seven Days' monthly parenting magazine, Kids VT, and is currently a freelance contributor.