Artists Ethan Townsend
SPRING 2022 RESIDENT · MAR – MAY
Ethan Townsend
Glass, metal & wood sculpture · Hawaii
Ethan Townsend is a sculptor from Hawaii who creates large-scale works in glass, metal and wood. He joined Manchester AIR at The Factory on Willow in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Spring 2022 session.
Background
Born in 1998, Townsend began glassblowing at Punahou School in Honolulu, whose glass program gave him a foundation in hot-glass techniques and 3D technologies. He went on to study glass at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), graduating in 2021.
About the work
Townsend’s work sits at the intersection of glass, process and technology. In one early piece, he dragged hand-pulled glass cane along a highway for varying distances and set the worn results into laser-cut steel; in another, a pair of yellow rain boots meets a ladle of molten glass. He has since served as art director for Evenline, a team developing molten-glass 3D printing, which was hosted as artists in residence by RIT’s glass program in 2023.
Selected highlights
Windgate-Lamar Fellowship (2020), among the most notable honors for emerging craft artists
Art director, Evenline molten-glass 3D printing
Glass, Rochester Institute of Technology (Class of 2021)
