For more than 60 years, Jean Blair has become very familiar working with doctors in several hospitals around the country. But rather than in the hospital setting, Blair takes them to her office, filled with hot furnaces, torches, blowpipes, paddles, jacks and sheers.
Blair is the founder of the New Orleans School of Glassworks and Printmaking Studio two blocks from The National WWII Museum in downtown New Orleans.
Whenever the stars align and schedules meld, Blair and her team at the Magazine Street studio host doctors, surgeons, nurses, technicians, physician assistants and more to take a moment out of their busy lives saving people and make some art of their own.
From cups to glass hearts to Christmas ornaments, guests can make it in the studio.
Blair started this project 40 years ago, around the time she opened shop. After moving to New Orleans from New York City, where she worked for Time Life, she connected with John Ochsner, the founder of the Ochsner hospital system…