Agora Glass

In addition to Agora's policy work, I also have an active glass art practice where I translates streetscape elements into glass. As a third generation artist, I transform streetscape elements into fused glass sculptures: houses, trees, bikes, flowers, and creatures like dragonflies and butterflies. I’m interested in how light transforms the glass to create a dynamic experience.
My pieces are also used as a way to help people change how they view and experience their neighborhoods. A street is more than a passage for cars: it's a place where people, plants, and animals live and thrive.

The glass pieces are kiln cast fused glass. Each piece is unique and designed in the kiln. Glass is cut into both realistic and abstract shapes to create the streetscape element I’m designing. All pieces integrate cane, which are slices from a pulled and twisted combination of 16 pieces of glass, formed into a block, fired and placed into a furnace to heat until malleable. After the firing, elements are combined to produce free standing glass and steel sculptures and hanging pieces.