Nick Kasunic
A Blue Farm
505 Stable Road
Indiana, PA 15701
Guest Artists:
Audra Clayton
Melissa Sullivan
Kathryn Reel
A Blue Farm is an arts school and residency that sits next to the town of Clymer and the vein of clay that runs through it. The wild clay is mined and processed on site, sculpted in the barn studios and turned to stone in the wood-fire kilns built out of recycled material. Here, artists, craftspeople and community members arrive to explore what is possible with clay, glass, wood and a penchant for silly, serious things.
Directions from The Jimmy Stewart Airport:
From Airport Road, turn onto Hood School Road
Follow for about 3 miles
At the stop sign, continue straight and cross Allen Bridge Road
The Blue House, surrounded by Catalpa trees, will be on your left
Turn down the blacktop driveway and park on the right side.
Directions from 286:
Near Mile marker 88, turn onto Stable Road
Take the winding, hilly road slowly
Descending into the neighborhood, as the road turns flat, turn onto the blacktop driveway just before the Blue House.
Park on the right.
Artist's Statement
“My favorite art objects are pieces held and used every day, and ones that rest in cultural memory and ritual. What will you have for breakfast? How will you store your beans? Will there be music tonight? How have these materials–their extraction and transformation–arrived to the spirit of our remembering this world, or of our forgetting? There are decade-old conversations that have not left me, there are objects that I’ve held that felt like a life-changing epiphany, there are movements and gestures instilled in them. There are histories I must remember. I tell stories, I make relics, I pose interventions to sense a belonging to this mood.
I want to make something to pass between us.”
Biography
Nick Kasunic grew up in Pittsburgh, spending a lot of time with his sisters, next-door cousins and friends at the Boys and Girls Club in the alley way of his family’s house. There, he continued to coach and mentor as he attended Pitt’s MFA in fiction writing, seeking the detailed moments inside unconscious shifts in personal and collective understanding under the tutelage of Dawn Lundy Martin, Bill Lychak and Uma Satyavolu.
He moved to Los Angeles in 2016, and learned stained glass from Angela and Derek Yee while teaching literature and theology at Cathedral High School in Elysian Park. He fell in love with how stained glass expressed figures in movement, and how that movement echoed through light. Much of his glass work depicting portraits and scenes now decorates lumber suppliers, mechanic shops and former neighbors–places and people that survived him. In 2018, he was taught ceramics by Robert Kibler at Glendale Community College, and years later opened a studio in Downtown Los Angeles to teach, make and collaborate.
Returning home in 2024, he took on a generational project from his Aunt Kathleen and Uncle Bob, and has given a name to the retired and reawakening farm that for decades has remained a place of refuge and practice for those working towards epiphany in fields of study, reflection and creation. Now, it’s called A Blue Farm.
To see more work from Nick visit his Instagram HERE.
Visit A Blue Farm’s website, www.itsabluefarm.com