This summer, the Voices will take a look at people with unusual jobs. If you have an idea for us, email voice@spokesman.com. In the 1930s and ’40s, neon lights screamed exciting night life, beckoning ...

Shawna Peterson bends glass tubes for a living. She makes neon art, and has put glowing faces on a giant wall of recyclables for artist Erik Otto, bent two-inch circles for a wall sized circuit board ...

Kory Sherer makes the glowing automotive works by hand, a painstaking process he says is "the absolute hardest thing I've ...

Let’s face it, neon signs are America. Be it a Coors Light sign in a college dorm room or a strip club marquee that jumps at you from the side of the road, neon serves as a beacon of light that calls ...

JANESVILLE—For nearly two decades, artist Tyler Kutz has been putting other peoples’ names up in lights. The 35-year-old neon artist and Janesville native said he creates nostalgic and custom designs, ...

This spring and summer, exhibits featuring neon will light up museums, galleries and botanical gardens across the U.S. It's been nearly 100 years since this country's first neon sign was imported from ...

RIDGEFIELD — In 1988, Roger Schurman sold his first neon sign to a used-car dealer on Portland’s Lombard Street at the tail end of a day full of rejection. That first sign — it said “OPEN” — was only ...

A revival of fantastic, flickering signs is illuminating roadside America, from legendary Route 66 to the Vegas strip. Around 250 vintage signs fill the outdoor “boneyard” at the Neon Museum Las Vegas ...

Inside Shawna Peterson's neon tube bending studio where puffs of air, charred wood and glass tubes meet to make brilliant signs and art. it's kind of really like by feel of when it's ready. There's ...