Studio glass practitioners pride themselves on rejecting industry, but the cyclone laid bare the movement’s entwinement with mining.
Erin E. O’Connor
Erin E. O’Connor is a world-recognized expert in craft studies, an associate professor of Sociology at Marymount Manhattan College, and the author of Fire-Craft: Art, Body, and World Among Glassblowers (forthcoming from Columbia University Press). Her current book project seeks to tell the story of studio glass through intersecting threads of art worlds, the global mining industry, and the deep time of geology.