Southern Charmed By and with Amber Droste of Soda, Ash and Sand

Cracked with Chevonne Ariss

Hi hello hello and we're back!!!

To kick Season 2 off, I'm interviewing Amber Droste. She is a classically trained painter with a BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and a Masters Degree in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis. She spent a year abroad studying painting and fresco restoration at the Art Institute of Florence in Florence, Italy. Though her formal education was spent studying painting and art history, she has spent the greater part of the last decade focusing mainly on stained glass. She’s now working and living in Chattanooga, Tennessee designing, fabricating, and installing leaded stained glass mostly on a larger scale, mostly commission based. Today we’re going to chat about how she presents her proposed designs to her clients, what are the qualities in other stained glass artists that she admires the most, why she’s not apologizing for her prices anymore and why you shouldn’t either!
Also, what’s Amber’s advice for a new stained glass artists just starting out?

Here we go…
join me as I crack it all wide open!

To see more of Amber's work, her instagram is @sodaashandsand and her website is sodaashandsand.com.
Honorable mentions from this episode:
Suppliers:
abraxisartglass.com
www.edhoy.com

Amber's work in the Kinley Chatanooga Hotel:
kinleychattanooga.com/our-hotel/art
Amber's watercolor pencils:
https://amzn.to/356u4Ft

Amber's translucent vellum paper:
https://amzn.to/3KpOUQ9

Amber's favorite artists:

Richard Diebenkorn
diebenkorn.org
Christo and Jeanne Claude
christojeanneclaude

Richard diebenkorn
wikiart.org/en/richard-diebenkorn
Simon Howard
@simonhowardglass

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