Baffling Future Archaeologists
Artist Talk with C. Miguel Unson

April 5, 2012 – Thursday – 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Join us at Hot Glass Houston for an artist talk with Houston’s own C. Miguel Unson, 2010 Bullseye Glass emerge Finalist.

Inner tubes, Life Savers, donut and bagels, at least three brands of cereal, vinyl records, CDs and DVDs, the rings of Saturn, ancient Mesoamerican ballgame goals, Rai stones from the island of Yap, 5- and 50-Yen coins, wreaths, washers, millstones, and diamond wheels mixed with raindrops, smoke, tadpoles, acuminate leaves, peacock feathers, Prince Rupert drops, fish skeletons, jet trails, meteors, and comets in his current works.  Combining two enduring forms and three glass techniques, Miguel’s goal is to excite the eye and baffle future archaeologists.

See C. Miguel Unson’s works at miguelunson.com

About C. Miguel Unson… C. Miguel Unson earned his BA from Carleton College in Minnesota and his MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.  Now residing in his home town, Houston, he was Assistant Director of Education at UrbanGlass in New York.   Unson has studied flameworking with Matt Eskuche, Paul Stankard, Shane Fero and Emilio Santini at Penland School of Crafts; kilnforming and kilncasting with Erik Wittmore at Bullseye Glass; and Scandinavian glass design with Charlie Meaker at Danmarks Designskole, Copenhagen.