Emberline is a four-person glass studio. Every piece starts as a gather of molten glass on the end of a pipe and is finished the same day, while it is still moving — nothing here is molded, outsourced, or reheated into obedience.
Six pieces currently on the shelf — each numbered against the melt log it came out of, none reheated into a second chance.
A kiln-cast orb polished to throw a single warm caustic line when lit from one side — the photograph everyone takes of…
A stylized cobalt flower cased in solid clear — the classic weight form, done slowly and without shortcuts at the torch. The…
A paperweight built at the torch bench from murrine cut off our own pulled canes — the only work in the studio…
Five bottles blown in one long session from five different color overlays, meant to be shown as a single row against raking…
A solid-worked sphere with a deliberate veil of micro air bubbles gathered between two clear layers — the piece is really about…
The ninth vessel in the Ember series, blown from the same amber-over-smoke overlay the series started with — each one shaped in…
Shaped on the pipe with breath and gravity — the studio's core practice since the first melt.
Poured into graphite and steel molds cut in-house, then cold-worked for weeks after annealing.
Small-scale work at the torch bench — the only process here that doesn't need the big furnace.
Slumped and fused flat glass, fired over days rather than minutes — patience as a technique.
Glass gives you one honest window per gather. Miss it and you don't fix the piece — you cut a new one.— R. Ostrander
The furnace doesn't care about your sketch. Half our best series started as a shape the glass insisted on.— T. Imai
Everyone watches the blowing. Nobody watches the three weeks of grinding that make it look inevitable.— J. Aluko
The simplest form in the shop is the hardest one to photograph honestly — and the…
Nothing dramatic happens at the furnace. The heartbreak is always the next morning, at the annealer…
Numbering pieces against the melt they came from started as bookkeeping. It became the studio's whole…
We open the shop floor to visitors on pour days, and every new series is announced to the list before it reaches the gallery wall.