Nangle’s glass-blowing studio and foundry are located on the non-gentrifying end of Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood, just a few blocks from the house where his father grew up. “My great-grandfather was a glass-blower from West Virginia, which I had no idea about until after I’d built a glass shop. It was a totally blue-collar family, but my father was this intellectually damaged person who did not like this neighborhood at all and moved. So I grew up in Narberth on the Main Line, and I pretty much kept to myself and made art my entire life.”