Cicada Glassworks - R. Jason Howard

R. Jason Howard is a progressive glass artist who specializes in borosilicate flameworking, a style of glassblowing that uses a powerful torch to create intricate, detailed, and colorful glass objects directly in the flame. He first began working with glass in 1997 as a senior studying ceramics at Hamilton College. Transfixed by its alluring qualities of light, and the sheer technical challenge, glass experimentation soon turned to obsession and total immersion. After a two year internship as Hamilton’s ceramic studio technician, and a scholarship to the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, he began studying both off-hand glassblowing, and flameworking with renowned artists such as Cesare Toffolo, Emilio Santini, William Gudenrath, Robert Mickelsen, James Nowack, Suellen Fowler, and Loren Stump. Jason then worked as a technical and artistic consultant for Northstar Glassworks, developing and reformulating colored borosilicate glasses, specifically including one of their more popular colors, “Onyx”. He currently resides in central New York with his wife and children, blowing glass full time as Cicada Glassworks. Jason’s current work draws on a unique combination of traditional Italian techniques and self invented processes to create large, organic, colorful forms, that push the boundaries of what flameworked glass can do.

Fabulous Stemware!

My current work is an exploration of change, time, and process. I’ve always thought of glass as a matrix of the space-time-heat continuum. Its form is a record of a series of events that happened to it along its formation, like strata within the earth’s crust. The invisible strata within the glass all move as one, but at different rates depending on location and temperature. Sometimes they flow quickly, sometimes slowly, but always together like an orchestra following the conductor with heat as the tempo. I draw inspiration from the natural world, and try to capture the universal flow that binds everything. Using traditional Italian techniques, modern developments in flameworked borosilicate glass, and a mix of my own invented techniques, I’m trying to draw from and acknowledge the past, represent the present, and bridge the future in the flow of change. CLICK HERE: Stemware

Ornaments!

Add some whimsy to your holidays with these fantastic ornaments! Available in in a beautiful rainbow of colors. We've discovered ornaments truly worthy of staying out year round! Drop by or give us a call to see which colors and sizes we currently have available. Need to decorate your entire tree? No problem, let us know which colors and sizes you want and we'll get them ordered and shipped to you. CLICK HERE: Ornaments