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Sarah-Mae: Seattle is famous for studio glass — and much of that fame is thanks to Dale Chihuly, who still lives and creates art here.

Heller Gallery has specialized in glass art since the early days of the studio glass movement.

In the ’60s, as some factories closed, a different kind of glass entered the scene: the American studio glass movement, inspired by Italian blown glass.

Scaling up a bit, Stonington Gallery presents “Luminosity,” a three-person show that sheds light on the special relationship between Northwest Native art and studio glass art.

And that’s where Refract, the newest glass festival in the country, comes in, hoping to celebrate and draw attention to our region’s studio glass movement and the fact that more than 700 glass artists and 100 glass art studios have set up shop in Washington state.