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Welcome back or welcome to the Taming Lightning Podcast, I’m Percy Echols II. I’m the creator and host of Taming Lightning, as well as emerging Neon Lab Tech at Pittsburgh Glass Center, where I’m learning and developing a space for exploring Plasma and Neon Light.
Taming Lightning is an educational blog and podcast about the Art, Science, and History of Plasma and neon Light – looking beyond it’s associations with novelty and signmaking, And to explore the potential of Rare or Noble Gases by learning about those that use them. We’ll be talking with Artists, Makers, and Researcher, each guest offering their unique knowledge and experience. |
It's a Project that began in May 2017, during my apprenticeship as studio tech at Pittsburgh Glass Center, where I was blessed with the opportunity to tinker with the donation of neon equipment. It was the first time I had the chance to learn and explore this process on my own. It all began shortly after a summer workshop at Pilchuck Glass School in 2014, which lead to work with Ash Williamson, one the students that took that class, and who helped to make work for my BFA exhibition in 2015.
Pittsburgh Glass Center has been crucial in supporting me as a place of research and inspiration, as well as encouraging me to pursue this project. So while I'm doing R&D to bring in future classes, workshops, and instructors for Neon and Plasma, this podcast and blog is the educational extension of that research.
Pittsburgh Glass Center has been crucial in supporting me as a place of research and inspiration, as well as encouraging me to pursue this project. So while I'm doing R&D to bring in future classes, workshops, and instructors for Neon and Plasma, this podcast and blog is the educational extension of that research.