San Francisco Chronicle: GLASS BENDER MELDS ART, SCIENCE TO CREATE AND RESTORE NEON SIGNS

Ames Palms has been perfecting her skills as a glass bender for more than 20 years. Palms, a Brooklyn native, studied glass blowing, neon and mixed-media sculpture at Alfred University in Upstate New York, where she fell in love with the art of neon.. …Most notably, Palms worked with other glass benders to restore the Castro Theatre sign for filming of the movie “Milk.”…

Meryl Pataky