"... artist like Lee Smith are working with Create Boston, the city's economic development program for creative industries. Smith, who works with stained glass, has put together a business plan to start a company that makes architectural signs. Create Boston will help Smith identify banks that can lend him the money to purchase a laser etching machine for $20,000, generating business for Vytek, a Fitchburg company that makes engraving machines. Smith will use the machine in his sign business and for his stained glass projects.

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"Boston artist Lee Smith’s first stained glass art show at Space 200 promises to invoke all the reverently sun-drenched gorgeousness of a Sunday morning in church, without all the obligatory Jesus. In place of our Lord and Savior, expect plenty of fish, childhood Godzilla drawings rendered in glass and copper, and a five-foot-high explosion of woozy circles commemorating the first use of ether during a medical procedure.

"THE BOSTON area is full of visual artists: painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, and those who mix media. The city has 16,000 artists, according to mayor's office of arts, tourism, and special events."

... "artist like Lee Smith are working with Create Boston, the city's economic development program for creative industries. Smith, who works with stained glass, has put together a business plan to start a company that makes architectural signs. Create Boston will help Smith identify banks that can lend him the money to purchase a laser etching machine for $20,000, generating business for Vytek, a Fitchburg company that makes engraving machines. Smith will use the machine in his sign business and for his stained glass projects.

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