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Northshore October 2025
  “Even as a teenager, I loved glass,” says Ingrid Pichler, Swampscott resident and independent glass artist.  “I used to paint those colors you can pick up at A. C. Moore and fire in your oven; I loved that.” Growing up in a small Italian mountain town close to the Austrian border, art was everywhere in Pichler’s youth. “The valley I’m from is known for tourism, of course, but also woodcarving. There’s a tradition of carving, of painting, of statues. Lots of reproduction of Romanesque and gothic art.” Her artistic passion led her from her hometown of 5,000 people to the
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