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Colorful Creations
Discover Your Inner Artist at Cindy Lou’s Glass Studio BY JACK WAX • PHOTOS BY L.G. PATTERSON
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verything about
worktables, and sheets of col-
business card features a colorful
his work clothes and serves as
Cindy Lou’s
ored glass and cutting tools are
caricature of Mutrux with the
minister to several churches in
Glass Studio goes
taken out of their storage bins.
phrase “You got some fusion
Howard County. As the wife of a
toward making
In a matter of minutes, Cindy
to do,” which sounds a lot like
minister, Cindy finds a religious
fused-glass art
and her husband, Ross, who own
Lucy’s catchphrase, “You got
calling in her glass work. “Art
a fun and fulfilling experience.
and operate the Sinclair service
some splainin’ to do.”
is therapy,” she says. “One day
First, there’s the unlikely setting
station at Stadium Boulevard
— a gas station, complete with
and Rollins Road, convert the
approaches her glass fusion
realized that glass is just like
gas pumps, a tall Sinclair dino-
space into a glass studio.
classes with a bright, optimistic
people — we all come in dif-
attitude. She makes her classes
ferent sizes and shapes, some
saur sign, reception area and
Then, there’s Cindy. Red-
Like the TV character, Mutrux
while learning glass fusion, I
service bays. Mondays through
haired and ready to laugh,
welcoming to even the least-
sharper than others, all different
Fridays, mechanics push aside
she’s usually smiling. There’s
artistic, ensuring that everyone
colors, but we’re all beautiful in
Cindy Mutrux’s glass fusing
something about her that
who attends a class succeeds in
the end.”
tools and work on cars and pick-
reminds most people of Lucille
creating something of beauty.
ups. But several weekends each
Ball. It’s no coincidence that a
Unlike Lucy, Mutrux also
shards that go into her kilns
month, the bay is cleaned up,
painting of Lucy hangs on the
shows a more spiritual side. On
might look dull and common-
bright-red stools are set out with
wall above her kilns or that her
Sundays, Ross changes out of
place, they come out as beautiful
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Although the glass sheets and