Artist Spotlight: Steven Easton

Glass artist Steven Easton exhibits Green Men, a series of works meditating on the recurring motif of the chalice. Displayed in the Lippitt House Museum Dining Room as part of the exhibition On Being American | Contemporary Artworks, Echoes of the Past, Easton’s works invite the viewer to contemplate the house’s architecture and interior, the Victorian period’s fascination with ornamentation, and materiality as a conveyor of cultural value. 

Employing the technique of lost-wax casting, a Bronze Age technique capable of preserving intimate detail in glass, fourth-generation participant in the Studio Glass movement Steven Easton explores glass casting as a medium of personal expression and carrier of social intention. Informed by historical art research and Gilded Age ornamentation, Easton places his glasswork in the grand Dining Room, a setting of conspicuous consumption, to show how material objects carry cultural values and reflect the link between craftsmanship, aesthetics, and ideology.

Steven Easton’s Green Men in the Dining Room of Lippitt House.

Green Men contains 18 pieces, ranging in size and coloration. While the Lippitt Dining Room includes numerous references to hunting and, as an extension, man’s control of nature, Easton’s works suggest “a primal connection to plant-based consciousness—one that depends on chlorophyll rather than blood.” In response to the rise of fascism and global instability, Easton turns inwards to a sustained studio practice centered on cast glass sculpture as a form of resistance, prioritizing reflection, empathy, and continuity. Each of the sculptures on display in the Dining Room will be individually priced for sale. 

About the Artist: Steven Easton is a glass sculptor whose work explores light, nature, and transformation through cast glass forms. Drawing on the Studio Glass tradition, he employs lost-wax casting to create luminous objects inspired by water, foliage, and ritual vessels. His work reflects an engagement with material, process, and the natural world and is held in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, Museum of Arts and Design, RISD Museum, and Newport Art Museum, among others. 

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Green Men will be on display in the Dining Room at Lippitt House Museum as part of On Being American | Contemporary Artworks, Echoes of the Past, an exhibition reimagining the historic house through the work of five contemporary artists. The exhibit will be open to the public on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays between May 13 and June 20, 2026.