Title: Set of Two Whiskey Glasses

Dimensions: (2) 8 oz. cups

Medium: Flameworked borosilicate glass

About the Artist:

et_glass . A native of Boone, North Carolina, Todd visited Penland School of Crafts as a boy with his father and attended community open house events. As a teenager, he started making flameworked beads at home with a simple gas torch and rods of glass. Upon graduation from high school and unsure of his direction, the young artist attended Penland classes beginning with a hot glass intensive taught by Ed Schmid and followed by further glass studies taught by Dave Naito and Scott Benefield. More recently, he attended a workshop with one of his favorite torch artists, Micah Evans, and served as a teaching assistant for Carmen Lozar. After earning his BFA from Tyler in 2016, Todd returned to his hometown and established a studio where he designs and creates a line of functional glass combining reticello in contemporary forms, networked and framed pieces. In 2020, he was looking forward to serving as a teaching assistant at Penland and having his first solo exhibition in four years in Asheville, both events canceled because of COVID. However, thanks to his presence on Instagram, et_glass is coordinating on a project with a glassblower from Kuwait who is the lead artist at the first school for glass in the Gulf region, Yadawi. He's also recently donated proceeds from the sale of some beautiful Sherlocks and bubble sculptures to Crafting the Future. Through constant experimentation, et_glass blends non- functional forms with the objects he loves to use and turns mistakes into great pieces just by being open to the idea.

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