Ethan Stern, a Seattle glass artist, is arriving in Muncie tonight for a two-week stay to spend time with students in Ball State's newly opened Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass.
Michael Hernandez, glass facilities manager, said the point of Stern's trip is to work with students on a personal level.
"He will be working with students in our classes," Hernandez said. "In addition to that, he will be making his own work in the hot shop and using our cold shop to do some finishing work."
Before attending college, Stern studied ceramic art and material science in Brisbane, Australia. He eventually went on to attend Alfred University in New York to study sculpture and ceramics.
On his website at ethanstern.com, Stern said he discovered the beauty of glass art during his time at Alfred.
"My transition from ceramics the glass grew from a need to explore a material with less history as an art medium and a process so much more direct that the draw was overpowering," Stern said on the website. "My final years at Alfred became devoted to glass and the investigation of sculpture within that medium."
Since Alfred, Stern has studied glass art at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, and the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle.
He now owns a design company in Seattle called Ethan Stern Design.
Stern said a certain beauty can be achieved with glass just as easily on paper.
"My process is often spontaneous, starting with a vague idea on paper I then move to the object, where process plays a huge role in the overall composition," Stern said.
During his two-week stay, Stern will present a public lecture and a public demonstration. Once Stern is settled in Muncie, the dates and times of the lecture will be announced.
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