Evan Burnette is multi-media artist specializing in glass, living in Portland, Oregon. He was born in Springfield, Illinois, his mother (now retired) was a community theater organizer and U.S. History teacher, his father a professional photographer (deceased). Evan received his MFA from Ball State, in Muncie, IN 2018, and his BFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2005. Evan moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2017 where he taught glassblowing to the public in both Oregon and Alaska. In 2008 Evan started his own glass design and production company, Local Art Glass LLC. In addition to having a great team of artisans helping him make his work, Local Art Glass is also Portland, Oregon’s only public glassblowing studio.

His art focuses on the integration of many of the tenets of early twentieth-century Surrealist thought, and psychological, aesthetic and ethical issues related to humor. He is interested in the concepts of both physical and mental play, disengagements from both the seriousness of both life, and the fine art world. His works deal in absurdist humor, which is predicated on silliness and nonsense.