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Hello Lightning Tamers! I’ve been working on finishing some pieces for the Distillery Residency Exhibition next month, and I’ve close to finishing with each studio session! It’s crunch time as I work to ready the Neon Lab for Pittsburgh Glass Center’s first Plasma Globe Workshop! Final steps is securing a leak proof line for Neon…

Ron Desmett Memorial Award for Imagination with Glass | Pittsburgh Glass Center The Ron Desmett Memorial Award for Imagination with Glass is for artists who think outside of the box, practice curiosity, and take risks to create unique, imaginative works in glass or incorporating glass.

Hello Lightning Tamers! Latest Upgrade for the Neon Lab! Added an Acrylic Viewing Window, to this mysterious contraption. One the the comments I got often by my co-workers/staff at PGC is not being able to show people what’s inside. (which honestly didn’t occur to me when I was first built it).  Tonight, I will continue…

Hello Internet! A short facebook live video of me working on my latest Glass form, working through engraving and patterning on instinct.  Mostly because it changes everytime I make a mark, and second to let my mind be free to work with out fear overwhelming my decisions. Enjoy! Percy Echols II

Hello Lightning Tamers! After surfing the interwebs last night, I spotted a post shared in one of the facebook groups I’m apart of, A little documentary on Ben Livingston, who’s work I’ve seen before, but didn’t have a name to. After watching the video and looking through work, what  impressed me was the various ways…

Hello Lightning Tamers! Hope you’re not too bored with these, as the latest train of posts have been Weekly Picks and with hints of updates on my part on the things that I’m doing that are related to Taming Lighting.  I can say now, in the chaos of my own life, I can better navigate…

​Hello Lightning Tamers! ​​ ​I know you’ve been waiting for the next Podcast Episode with Mundy Hepburn. Unfortately it will be delayed until March. Working on the Neon Lab had taken priority among others. Thank You for your patience and understanding. A post shared by Percy Echols II (@glass.percy) on Feb 23, 2018 at 7:37pm…

Hello Lightning Tamers! ​ I Checked out Swagelok to exchange the parts I ordered, turns out I made a simple mistake when measuring the connections, and found that in Plumbing 1/2″ is actually 1/4″ when it comes to threading. The people at Swagelok Pittsburgh were nice and helped me get the right parts. While I…

Hello Lightning Tamers! Sorry for the late upload for the weekly Picks! I also want to share with you a live stream video I took while I worked on the Neon Lab on Thursday. It in this stream I’m work on replacing parts in the system that transfer the gas from the tank to the…

Hello Lightning Tamers! Weekly Picks are way to show various artists and makers working in neon and plasma, to see the diversity in their use of neon in their practice, and of course the cool things they do with it. Hope to be able to bring you more than the podcast and Picks in the…