So, when a Washington Post art critic tells an artist that their work is the only salvageable thing in an art show of six-hundred pieces, that’s a good thing, right? Maybe not when it’s spat with the vitriolic follow-up that, “glass is such a gorgeous medium it’s hard to screw it up.”

Which is funny, because technically glass blowing is pretty easy to screw up. It took 2,000 years of work, from Mesopotamia to Syria, to perfect glass blowing. The modern approach still requires a 2,000 degree furnace and a burn-victim provoking oxygen-propane flame. Ask Alison Sigethy, part of Compelled by Content II, now on view at the Fraser, about the practice. Two of her works were shattered on the way to the show by a botched foam pack job at UPS. One of Robin Cass’ bird sculptures lost a tail. Oops.

“Glass is traditionally viewed as craft,” offered Lenny Campello, co-owner of the Fraser Gallery. That’s putting it nicely. Think bowls, vases, and illicit fake-rose containers; the last time most DCist readers saw ‘glass art’ was at an Ocean City head shop.