L'uccello Mattiniero Specialet. (Early Bird Specials!) All entrees come with your choice of soup or salad & bread. Choice of dessert: chocolate ice cream, vanilla ice cream or bread pudding Must ask server for special menu Ravioli Ella Aldo Choice of meat, tomato $1 095 or marinara sauce llanicotli Alla Aldo Topped with tomato sauce & parmesan cheese $ 1 0 95 Eggplant 13armigiatta Served with marinara sauce & parmesan cheese $1095 Chicken Siciliana Style Lightly breaded with seasoned bread crumbs 95 $1 Chicken Marsala Sauteed in "Florid' wine sauce $1 1 95 Chicken Parmigiana Lightly breaded, topped with tomato sauce and $ 1295 fontina cheese Beef 'rips Sauteed with mushroom sauce and served with $ 12 mashed potatoes 95 Broiled White Fish Topped with fresh herbs $ 1 295 . GLASS from page 35 making — "I sustained minor burns on my hand and thought my face was going to melt off" — he's satisfied applying his creativity toward enlightenment. In the 1970s and '80s, explains Hampson, there were very few outlets for glass artists to exhibit their work, except "alongside macrame and ill-formed pottery. We gave it some dignity. We put it on pedestals, literally, and started exhibiting glass in the same manner used to exhibit sculp- ture." He won't admit that he was on a mission, though; he thinks he has spent the last 34 years just having a whole lot of fun — and receiving an education right along with everyone else. "I didn't have real strong aspirations," says Hampson. "I was jurying a glass exhibition at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association with a stained-glass artist; and we realized we were both working on a few different exhibits taking place in the spring, so I thought it would be interesting if we combined all these events together." So Hampson began soliciting schools, institutions, muse- ums, galleries and then-Gov. William Milliken, who, as a result of Hampson's efforts, declared April to be Michigan Glass Month. Habatat, which originated as a multimedia art gallery, became dedicated to artists working in glass. "My business partner at the time thought I was crazy," recalls Hampson. "He said 'Why are you soliciting competi- tors to create a glass exhibition?' And I really didn't have much to defend myself with, except a feeling." He was right. Hampson has revolutionized the world of art glass, and as a result, much of that revolution has taken place in Michigan, even though he runs galleries in other states as well. The invitational has been honed to a juried selection of the most elite, most notable or most worthy of recognition, and it has been the model for a number of other, less successful exhibitions around the country. "I think it's educated an enormous amount of people, besides myself," says Hampson. "And I think many artists have been inspired, too, to take up glass." He also has brought exhibits to various other countries, including China in 2001. "It was the first time since the Communists took over that they allowed a multinational art exhibition in China," says Hampson. "They wanted the Olympics at the time, and to show that these events could occur. I knew I was a pawn," he laughs. "But what the heck?" For the first invitational, Hampson was pleased to have found 12 people nationally to include; by the next year, that figure grew to 40. This year's event will feature almost 100 artists from 20 countries, all of them working in glass. Among them are quite a few Jewish glass artists, including Alex Bernstein, Martin Blank, Dan Clayman, Sidney Huger, Steven Linn, local Janet Kelman, and, of course, Laura Donefer, who will be represented by five pieces. ❑ No subsdrurions..Menu subiccr w change without notice. Dine in only. The 33rd Annual International Glass Invitational will be on view April 16 through May 15, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 12-5 p.m. Sunday in Royal Oak and Pontiac. Opening recep- tion will be held 7-9 p.m. Thursday, April 14. For more information on the many special events, including demonstrations, lectures, private-collec- tion tours, and more, call (248) 554-0590 or log on to www. habatat.com . SN 3/31 6676 Telegraph, Bloomfield Hills 2005 WWW.andiamoitalia.corn 38 Alex Bernstein: `Mooch " cast and cut lead crystal. Martin Blank: "The Veils," hot worked glass. Dan Clayman: "Circular Object #1," bronze, glass.