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9th Annual "Great Glass Pumpkin Patch"-- October
2-3
--photo by Chris Rappley
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For Immediate Release: Sept. 16, 2009
Contact:
Lynn Heinemann
MIT Office of the Arts
Email heine@media.mit.edu
(617) 253-5351 |
Cambridge, MA...It's pumpkin season again at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when glass pumpkins created
by students and instructors in MIT's Glass
Lab sell their creations.
The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is an annual sale to raise funds to
benefit the Lab, an art program connected with MIT's Department of
Materials Science and Engineering.
When: Friday-Saturday, October 2-3
Event Details:
Reception (no sales)--Friday, Oct. 2, 5-8pm
Sale--Saturday, Oct. 3,
10am-3pm
Where: Kresge
Oval (48 Massachusetts Avenue, in front of MIT’s Kresge Auditorium) What
if it rains?
Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 4
More information: 617/253-5309
Pumpkin Factoids
- 7 -- Time in minutes to make a simple
pumpkin
- 60 -- Time in minutes to make a large
complicated pumpkin
- 6 -- Number of MIT glassblowers making
pumpkins for the sale
- 3 -- Number of people involved in making
one pumpkin (teams work in sets of 3)
- 1,500 -- Number of pumpkins made
for this year's sale
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- 5 -- Number of hours it typically takes for
the pumpkins to sell out
- 12 -- Number of pumpkins that got broken
during last year's sale
- $25 -- Cost, in dollars of least expensive
pumpkin
- $500 -- Cost, in dollars, of most expensive
pumpkin
- $70,000 -- Amount, in dollars (gross, before
expenses), anticipated sales total
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