WES HEART, KYOUNGHWA OH, WILLOW STEVENSON
Artist Talks
JUNE 22, 5:30pm
Join us at Starworks on Thursday, June 22, 5:30pm for Artist Talks from Wes Heart, Glass Resident Artist, KyoungHwa Oh, Ceramics Resident Artist and Willow Stevenson, Ceramics Intern. Each artist will present slides and discuss some of their processes and influences involved in making their work. Stick around after the talks to meet the artists and ask questions.
Artist Talks are free and open to the public of all ages.
Artist Talks, this month, will be followed by Old Time Jam in the cafe, starting at 7pm.
Starworks is a family friendly and dog friendly environment. Enjoy refreshments from the Starworks Cafe & Taproom before, during and after the event. The Cafe is open until 9pm and has a large selection of hot and cold beverages, locally crafted wines, beer, pastries, locally prepared sandwiches, desserts and other snacks.
Wes Heart
Wes Heart is an artist, designer, and educator living in Philadelphia. He holds two degrees in glass, a BFA from Southern Illinois University of Carbondale and MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. He is the Founder of Blob Blob Studio and also teaches in the Art Glass Program at Salem Community College’s Glass Education Center in Southern New Jersey.
Wes’s current work utilizes a playful approach to form and function. He founded Blob Blob Studio to focus on creating designs that do both. By intuitively collaging media and process, he exaggerates each material’s beauty. Using bold color, the optical properties of glass, light, and texture, he creates impactful sculptural forms that demand further investigation.
His work has been featured in New Glass Review, published by the Corning Museum of Glass and he has received multiple awards, including a Windgate Fellowship, the Rickert-Ziebold Trust Award, an AACG Visionary Scholarship, and was a 2022 Center for Craft Career Advancement Fellow.
IG: blob_blobber
Kyounghwa oh
KyoungHwa Oh was born in Seoul, Korea, where she spent her childhood and naturally developed a connection to traditional Korean ceramics (Koryo Celadon). Oh studied fashion design in Korea and worked for five years as a designer before coming to the United States to gain more design experience. While in the United States, she became interested in working with clay and changed her plans to study ceramics.
KyoungHwa Oh is an Associate Professor of Art at Colorado Mesa University. After receiving her MFA degree, Oh worked as a Visiting Resident Artist at Midwestern State University in Wichita Fall, Texas from 2009 to 2011. She started at CMU as the Art and Design Department’s first Visiting-Artist-in-Residence in Fall 2011, as part of an initiative to expose art students to unique artistic approaches. She joined the department as an Assistant Professor in 2014 and am a ceramics-based studio artist who teaches both ceramics and foundation courses in the Art and Design Department. Oh has been included in many juried and invitational exhibitions throughout the United Stated, China, Turkey, and Canada. The ICMEA (International Ceramic Magazine Educators Association) recognized her as an emerging artist in 2010 and Oh has also received the Ceramic Monthly Emerging Artist Award in 2012.
IG: kohporcelain
Willow Stevenson
Born and raised in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Willow Stevenson grew up spending most of her days outside, making art: muddy hands and bare feet at the river bank, mixing wildflowers into pretend tinctures, making inks from berries and walnuts, drying plants to use in collages, and befriending the land around her. She loves working at the intersection of art + the environment as well as integrating multiple mediums. Through hand drawn animations, ceramics, videos, and projection, explore the interconnections of landscapes, bodies, time, and sense of place.
Willow Stevenson received a BA Art + Environmental Studies from Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, 2021.
IG: willowtree.art