Artist Information:
Stan Harmon
New Bern, NC
United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
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Artist Statement:
Retirement brought Stan
Harmon’s passion into the
daylight. Finally quitting
his “day job”, after a career
with an environmental water
management company, Harmon
found himself able to devote
more time to artistic
endeavors that he had
previously crammed into late
night hours after everyone
else was asleep.
Following his dream to learn
to blow glass he enrolled at
the famous Penland School of
Craft in the North Carolina
mountains, quickly succumbing
to the addictive nature of
glass blowing. However,
blowing glass requires at
least one helper and that
wouldn’t fit into his new
schedule (which was no
schedule). Not to mention the
constant overhead involved in
firing a glass furnace 24/7.
While at Penland, Harmon was
introduced to the technique of
kiln-forming glass which being
taught in the next studio.
This proved to be the best of
both worlds, embracing the
serendipity of hot glass
creation and the advantages of
a flexible schedule because a
computer runs the kiln, taking
care of the most time
consuming aspects of creation.
Thus no helper was needed, no
outrageous gas bill to stress
about, and still reaping the
creative opportunities
afforded by hot glass.
Kiln-formed or fused glass ...
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Stan Harmon's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Stan Harmon's Portfolio.
Retirement brought Stan Harmon’s passion into the daylight. Finally quitting his “day job”, after a career with an environmental water management company, Harmon found himself able to devote more time to artistic endeavors that he had previously crammed into late night hours after everyone else was asleep.
Following his dream to learn to blow glass he enrolled at the famous Penland School of Craft in the North Carolina mountains, quickly succumbing to the addictive nature of glass blowing. However, blowing glass requires at least one helper and that wouldn’t fit into his new schedule (which was no schedule). Not to mention the constant overhead involved in firing a glass furnace 24/7. While at Penland, Harmon was introduced to the technique of kiln-forming glass which being taught in the next studio. This proved to be the best of both worlds, embracing the serendipity of hot glass creation and the advantages of a flexible schedule because a computer runs the kiln, taking care of the most time consuming aspects of creation. Thus no helper was needed, no outrageous gas bill to stress about, and still reaping the creative opportunities afforded by hot glass.
Kiln-formed or fused glass ... |
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