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Floof Collage pARTy!
Floof Collage pARTy!
Imagine a place where you and your children, your employees, your colleagues and your clients can comfortably make art. No experience necessary, ages 2-102. FLOOF Collage pARTy! is that place. With 500 square feet of fabrics, found objects, bits of hardware, vintage jewelry, shells and beads you can create everything under the sun.
There are baskets of scissors and glues, wire for mobiles, treasure boxes, canvases, wood and paper by the roll. Paints, markers, crayons, charcoal, colored pencils and pastels await your command.
Goal number one is fun! A giant oak table with seating for ten budding artists can also be used for snacks or birthday cake. If adults want to BYOB for an evening party, voila: Art Happy Hour!
You will find FCp! a place to relax, celebrate special events, or just soothe and heal your soul through guided creative expression. Corinne Stern is an experienced artist and teacher who will help you create a personal work of art that will satisfy your emotional and spiritual self. You can even buy more materials by the pound in a Take-Home Pak.
FCp! is located in NE Ithaca, with plenty of free off-street parking and full wheelchair accessibility. TCAT buses #30 and #32 stop nearby. A wheelchair ramp leads to the deck facing our woods and creek to let nature inspire you to create when the weather cooperates.
Find out more at www.floofcollageparty.
Floof Collage pARTy!
135 Burleigh Dr.
Ithaca, NY 14850
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Tagged Art, community, Corinne Stern, Floof Collage pARTy!, sculpture, students, teaching, Workshop
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///Contemporist Icon featuring Ethan Stern Design///
After re-posting some interesting articles from the Contemporist Icon blog last week, the author contacted me about featuring my work in a post. Crazy how the web works! So check it out here: http://www.contemporisticon.com/ethan-stern-contemporary-art-glass-sculpture-artist/
Also posted in Artist Statement, coldworking, Glass, New Work, Publication
Tagged Art, cold working, Glass Artist, Glass Blowing, new work, sculpture, Seattle
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Natural order: Observations of nature from the island of Oahu
I just spent a week in Hawaii teaching and doing demos at the University of Hawaii on Oahu. What a beautiful place. I cant even begin to describe the beauty, the feeling in the air, the ocean and the amazing people that I met. I am sure a lot of you have already been to the Hawaiian Islands, but this was my first time. I was hosted by my friend Kait Rhoads who is teaching at the University for a semester and changing lives by the minute. I spent a lot of time in the studio but even more time out side. From hiking mountains to swimming oceans to giving tourists reccomendations on places to eat I had a full week. Sunsets, rainbows, sushi, tonkatsu, udon, musube and kimchee! Not to mention getting leid three times!
So here are some photographs from around Oahu. I tried to find texture and focus on the micro compositions and surfaces.
Favorites: Rainbow Eucalyptus and Iron Wood bark! Holy shit!
Aloha
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77 Elements of a practical and stylish Seattle life @SeattleMet
And guess what! My work is one of them, so you better go get you some.
Check out this new article in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine’s November issue. My work “Grain Bowl” is featured in a shopping guide on page 86. The issue has not come out on line yet, but when it does check it out here or follow @SeattleMet on twitter. Thanks to Vetri Gallery for putting the work out there and congrats to my local cohorts Hugh Willa and power team Jeremy Newman and Allison Ciancibelli for making great work! And remember…. If the magazine tells you to buy it, you probably should.
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Tagged Art, Ethan Stern, glass, Glass Art, Glass Artist, Glass Blowing, Hugh Willa, Jeremy Newman and Allison Ciancibelii, new work, published, Seattle, Seattle Met, Vetri Gallery
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Images of NEW WORK coming this weekend + pictures of rocks!
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(why is that the only thing I can think of to describe how I feel about these images)
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Tagged Art, Ethan, glass, Glass Artist, new work, sculpture
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///Summer Re-Cap///
Its been a crazy one!
From my residency at TMOG in May :
Once June hit I was off and running. With the GAS conference here in Seattle this year we saw an influx of hundreds of glass makers from all over the world converge on the emerald city for a weekend, networking, lecturing, flexing and partying like rock stars. What a blast!
The week after that, I flew to the Pittsburgh Glass Center to teach a week long workshop. The class at PGC was titled “Out of the round” and it was amazing. With students from stateside and abroad it was the most challenging class I’ve taught to date due to the high skill level of the students. Instead of teaching them how to gather the glass, I was teaching them new ways to approach the entire blowing process. Sculpting the bubble was priority number one and they all got down and dirty with paddles, corks and blow punties.
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After Pittsburgh I came back to Seattle and met up with my intern Kameron Robinson. Kameron is a senior at Anderson University in Indiana.
He contacted me after I had visited his school and done some demos in the glass shop. He was interested in getting some experience in a professional artist studio. WOW! makes me feel legit. This was my second time having a summer intern and I hope to continue next summer with someone new.
Kameron turned out to be a cold working machine and a hell of a guy. his first time west of the Missouri and he was loving summer in Seattle. The month of July flew by with Kameron and I working in the shop day in day out.
Thanks Kameron, you rock !
Once August hit I was off to Maine to the Haystack Mountain School of Craft to be a teaching assistant for my good friend and great artist Kait Rhoads. 
It was truly an amazing experience. I slept very little and blew glass alot. It was a cane and murrini class so we were pulling on the glass until the we hours of the night. The students were amazing and my fellow TA Zach Compton from Star, N.C. was the shit!
From Haystack I went straight to Pilchuck to be the Cold shop Cordinator for the fifth session of the summer. It was amazing! Lino Tagliapietra was there and I was lucky enough to be able to do some cold working for him. was I nervouse? Na…..not at all. He’s only the best glassblower alive today. Not to mention a very generous and wonderful man. April Surgent (my studio mate) was there teaching a class with her mentor and master engraver Jiri Harcuba for the Czech Republic. I will be posting a video of Jiri engraving a portrait of April soon on my blog and my youtube channel. I always have a blast at Pilchuck and I am so glad they ask me back every summer.
So now…finally I am back in the studio full time working on my next exhibition. This fall The Traver Gallery will be representing me at SOFA Chicago. It’s kind of a big deal and I’m really excited! They are only bringing four artists and the booth will be beautiful. So if you’re in Chicago November 3rd through the 6th come check it out.
Here is a couple shots of the work I am making for SOFA:
oh yeah and here’s my lunch:
Also posted in April Surgent, coldworking, friends, Glass, Glass Blowing, New Work, Pilchuck, SOFA, teaching, travel, Uncategorized, WWO
Tagged April Surgent, Art, art book, cold working, Ethan Stern, glass, Glass Art, Glass Artist, Glass Blowing, Glass intern, Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, pittsburgh glass center, school, sculpture, Seattle, SOFA, students, teaching, Workshop
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Always Drawing
Pushing form beyond the expected anatomy of the vessel, I use glass to investigate the emotive potential of objects. I begin each piece by creating a blown, geometric form composed of multiple layers of color and pattern. While blown glass typically reflects light and is shiny and dense in appearance, a richer, more luminous effect can be achieved by cutting into the surface after the piece has cooled. I spend the majority of my time creating patterns and textures from the simple shifts in hue, density and opacity, which are a result of the process of engraving. These engraved marks, like the stroke of a paintbrush on canvas, leave evidence of my hand and are intended to create an expressive sense of motion, rhythm, weight, and depth.
Glass is not a forgiving material. It demands an involved process and requires careful planning and manipulation. Engraving has become my voice within the medium, since it is the most direct way for me to leave my mark. My process of carving is a reductive one; I can’t add any material once it’s removed. This notion of continuously revealing layers pushes me to carefully consider each step and the choices that I make. Because of this, the process plays an important role in the development of each piece.
At the most basic level, my work is an ongoing exploration of abstraction and the expressive qualities of form, color, texture and light, yet I am also very aware of how my physical surroundings influence how these qualities manifest in each piece. I live in an urban area and work in an industrial part of Seattle. I cannot help but allow the hue of the day and the contrast between the engineered and natural landscapes permeate my sense of beauty. Translating this information into my recent work has led to imagery and form inspired by design, architecture and the visual deconstruction of my surroundings.
Also posted in Artist Statement, Drawings, Glass
Tagged Art, Drawings, Ethan Stern, glass, Glass Art, Glass Artist, Glass Blowing, sculpture
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NW Profile: Raven Skyriver
This past Friday was spent helping Raven Skyriver make is amazing work up in Sedro Wooly, Washington. We worked at Rik Allen and Shelly Muzylowski-Allen’s Hot shop out in the country side. About an hour and a half from Seattle, Rik and Shelly’s shop is an ideal place to get away from the hustle and make work with much focus. Not to mention the rocket ship motif, this place is truly space aged!
Raven was working on some pieces for an upcoming show in February at the Stonington Gallery in Seattle. He is a true sculptor and has an amazing approach to the glass. Raven has worked with many amazing artists including William Morris and Karen Willenbrink-Johnson. Originally from Lopez Island, Washington his work is inspired by the quest to find balance in nature.
I love working with Raven because his approach the material is so different from mine. His approach is organic, but calculated. Each step along the way to the finished piece is considered; pushing, pulling, heating and re-heating until the glass takes on a new form completely. A new mantra is born; one that describes a being so clearly that its personality cannot be denied. I am inspired by his hands and his ability to materialize his vision in the glass. He will be doing a demo at the GAS conference in Seattle in June, so don’t miss that. Oh yeah, Raven and his love Kelly O’Dell just started working on the collaborative master work entitled “Wren Amor Skyriver.” I know we all are looking forward to seeing how this little sculpture turns out!
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Tagged glass, octopus, raven, sculpture
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To solve the puzzle
“There are no straight lines in nature, only a quality of life force. We invent uniformity and patterns. We have the possibility of infinity.
Limitations are human not actual.”
Stephen Procter
///Garden Update///
The Garden is doing well. I’m still waiting for the sun to shine, but spring is definitely here. I have tomatoes, cucumbers and basil in the closet and their looking good too. This is a leaf from the Marketmore Cucumber that is kicking ass but I cant put it outside until it warms up a bit. 
I have been getting lots of feed back from the neighborhood and people seem to love it. I think I inspired a few others to get their raised beds in shape and grow some food. 
This radish was the first thing harvested that I planted from seed in the garden. We have been eating the Lettuces and Kale but those were starts that I bought from the Seattle Tilth edible plant sale in March.
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///wwwo///
My photographer, Robert Vinnedge, came to the exhibition in February at Traver and took some photos. Here they are:
Just finished some new wall pieces for SOFA New York. I am leaving for the show on the 14th and I can’t wait to be in the city once again. 
Ruby Glyphs 2010 10″h x 3″w x 28″l
“Susonami” 2010 16″h x 3″w x 20″l
A couple of other things going on and about to go on:
I have few pieces in a group show at the Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, MA. Glass Quake Again 2010 Glass Quake returns for another inspiring exhibit featuring the creative and colorful glass works of both world renowned artists and emerging talents. Whether slumped, cast, sculpted, blown or crafted into fine jewelry, each glass object is a brilliant example of this challenging art. Coming up I will have some work in another group show at the Zypher Gallery in Louisville, KY coinciding with the Glass Art Society conference happening there. Open May 21st through June 26th.
March 12th – April 24th, 2010
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