Working Greener Angus Powers Resurrecting the Roman Furnace

Rate this item
(1 Vote)

by Shawn Waggoner

Photography by Dan Volk and Angus Powers

Angus Powers has been building updraft wood-fired, Roman-style, primitive furnaces since his masters studies at Tyler School of Art. A graduate class that focused on ancient techniques inspired him to investigate and create core formed glass vessels that predate the process of blowing glass using this ancient technique.

This article was originally published on page 18 of the September/October 2015 issue of Glass Art.

300xAngusPowers

 

Last modified on Thursday, 05 May 2016 17:17