Pietro Riccardo Ferro

SUNRISE

2023

Latchezar Boydjiev Energy, 2023 Glass 28 x 13 x 4 in

Aquamarine, 2020

Pietro & Riccardo Ferro’s Deep Blue Fall (2024) is a masterful example of Murano glass artistry, meticulously hand-blown and hand-carved across four intricate layers. The vase featur...

Artist Statement: I fully believe a certain "luck factor" exists when working with glass; sometimes a piece turns out and others crack or break. Glass can be solid/liquid, can be...

Earthenware with colored slips. Epoxy. Cone 04 textured and satin glazes. Signed, titled, and dated in ink on bottom. Milnes served as Dean of the College of Visuals Arts and Design at the University of North Texas from January 2006 to his retirement in August 2014, when he moved to Asheville, NC with his wife Karen, re-establishing Arbitrary Forms Studio there. A sculptor and ceramist, he served previously as Director of the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University in California, Director of the School of Art at Louisiana State University, and as Chair of the Art Department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He taught at the Penland School of Crafts in 1972 and 1979. Milnes is the past president of the National Council of Art Administrators and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. He has served as a consultant or evaluator for more than sixty universities, colleges, and independent schools of art in the US and abroad and served in Dallas on the Board of Directors of the Business Council for the Arts and as Chair of the Community Advisory Board for KERA, the NPR station for North Texas. He was recently named a Fellow and Lifetime Member of NASAD and served on the Board of Directors of the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC and as co-chair of the Blue Ridge Public Radio Strategic Planning Committee. He is a member of the Southern Highland Crafts Guild.

"Estelar Warm" Year: 2022 Medium: Wood Laqued, Optic Fiber, Leeds Provenance: From the collection of the artist. 145 x 44 x 36 cm

Handblown by Afro Celotto in Venice, Italy. Afro Celotto is an Italian glass artist known for his intricate and colorful glass sculptures. He was born in Murano, Italy in 1963, and h...

Carved Acrylic Sculpture (Clear) 72 x 16 x 2 inches Edition 1 of 3 When Sophia Collier creates a new water surface she starts with a brush th...