Red Fern Glass is the small hot glass studio of Ed Pennebaker. Ed primarily makes Art Glass Lighting using traditional offhand glassblowing techniques.
All the glass is made by Ed in his Arkansas backwoods studio. Ed believes in working incessantly, cultivating concepts, discrimination and technique.
Mark your calendar. April 24 is the tentative date for the "Sporatic and Only Occasional Glass Blowout". This year we will celebrate 25 years of Red Fern Glass.
The sculpture Dancing Water-Elixir of Immortality was accepted to the 52nd Annual Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas January 29-March 14, 2010.
Experimentation with a new color, grey. I used it in two chandeliers so far, of the three batches made, the first was a little toward the blue side, the second two batches were slightly green. These two chandeliers have been made using the grey, #526v2 and #528.
September 3-6, Optic Mold Techniques for Glassblowing, a class organized through the Arkansas Craft School will take place at Red Fern Glass Studio
June 7-11, 2010 Ed will be teaching a glassblowing class through The Eureka Springs School of the Arts at Red Fern Glass Studio.
Dec. 4, 5, 6, 2009
Visit Ed and close to 100 other artisans in Little Rock at the 31st Annual Christmas Showcase.
Nov. 20, 2009 through March 15, 2010
Come to the opening reception of "Engaging Minds-Creative Hands", 6-8 pm at Fresh Air Gallery in Clinton, Arkansas. See work by Ed and 11 other Arkansas artists in various media with over 300 years of collective artistic experience.
November 5, 2009
Today is the grand opening for a new building where Ed installed a new work of art.
Thursday October 30 Ed installed a wall sculpture at the new BKD building in Springfield, Missouri. It is 90 inches tall, 156 inches wide. BKD Sculpture on the sculpture page.
September 24, 2009
Three sculptures by Ed have been accepted for the show "Exploring the Work of Arkansas Sculptors" at Arkansas Studies Institute, October 9 through December 11.
The studio is in the woods near Osage, Arkansas. It started as a pottery studio built by Newt Lale of Osage Clayworks. In 1990 Newt bought the old Stamps Historical Store, a three story native stone building built in 1901. Newt moved to downtown Osage. And Ed moved way out in the woods. He remodeled the studio and closed in the "kiln shed" for a hot glass shop.
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