Blenko Glass introduces new color for 2024

“New years at Blenko bring new colors — we’re debuting a new, rich green, Malachite, and retiring our beloved throwback green, Olive. We made Hay with Topaz in 2023, and we’re bringing Topaz into our line colors for 2024. Spring Crocus did some amazing work for us last year — perhaps most memorably as coal and in Mothmen — but we have retired her for 2024. We’re also reaching into our historical batch books to see if we can’t bring back a one- or two-year color, or two. (What historical colors would you like to see again?),� wrote Creative Director James Arnett in a Dec. 31 news release.

In the same release, it was announced that Blenko will welcome its first guest designer in 2024: Phil Vinson, owner of Mobile Glassblowing Studios in Americus, Georgia.

Water Bottle Week 2024 will be Jan. 22-28 and the Festival of Glass, which is usually in the summer but was moved to the spring due to heat, will be April 5-6.