LARNED  — April Lemons, with “More than Lemons,” (morethanlemons.com) a small art gallery located in Holton, spent two days at Larned High School this past week demonstrating and teaching the art of glassblowing to students.

Kristen Pontius, LHS art teacher, in partnerships with the Santa Fe Trail Center Museum and the LHS Booster Club, received a grant to bring Lemons to Larned.

Lemons spent each day demonstrating different techniques during the glassblowing process to Pontius’s art classes and to any other high school students who wanted to observe this artistic genre. Classes throughout Thursday and Friday made the trip outside to Lemons’s trailer to watch her produce beautiful hand-blown glass pieces.

Each day, Lemons taught the advanced art students at LHS how to create a piece using this process, and they were allowed to keep their products. Lemons also demonstrated making a blown glass bowl and then popping popcorn in it as it cooled down, showed how to make a circular bowl with fluted edges, and allowed the students to try to break a Prince Rupert’s Drop.

April Lemons is part of the Kansas Visiting Artists and has offered traveling demonstrations for five years.

In addition to the Santa Fe Trail Center Museum and the LHS Booster Club, Pontius thanked the LHS Art Club and Fort Larned USD 495 for helping bring Lemons to the students at LHS.