
Ethan Bond-Watts is an artist living and working in New York and Vermont.
His practice spans collaborative performance, living sculpture, institutional commissions, and vibrant installations for fine homes.
Ethan grew up in Charlotte, Vermont, the second of three brothers — raised on curiosity, justice, and travel. As a teenager, he apprenticed with glass blowing maestro Alan Goldfarb in Burlington, VT — where he grew passionate about contemporary and academic art.
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Classical glass — 2007
In 2009, he graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Vermont, where he studied Art, Environment, and Philosophy — earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies, and making glass installations on campus.
In his twenties, Bond-Watts continued exploring contemporary and historical art with travel to Europe and Asia — while expanding his sculptural practice.
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Cosmic Solid — 2011
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Creeping Shoji — 2012
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Seed — 2015
For much of 2016, he collaborated with Jonathan J. Harris on the arduous glassmaking process featured in Apprenticeship and Phase Change.
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Ethan and Jonathan at the Shelburne Quarry during Apprenticeship — August 2016
In March of 2020, he was among the first wave to flee Post-COVID Brooklyn, returning home to Vermont — where he currently makes a living selling his art, repairing heavy equipment, doing custom farm work with his fleet of tractors and agricultural machinery, and collaborating with other artists.
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“Blue Buddha” — 2019
He can be found watching sunsets fade to meteor showers on sketchy rooftops; talking feminist politics with truckers; singing Dua Lipa while doing forestry; listening to philosophy while plowing cover crops; and doing the dishes after dinner parties.
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