Taliesin West
The original Etazin is a permanent installation at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Designer
Artist and designer Kathleen Werner creates interactive outdoor art that brings sculpture, landscape, and everyday use into one experience.
Kathleen Werner has immersed herself in many different aspects of the art world. After college, she created Zen, a boutique featuring Asian art, meditation pieces, and teas from around the world.
Her customers’ interest in the store’s décor and art led to the design of living spaces, then landscape and commercial environments. She later designed and owned an Arizona gallery for large-scale modern art, showing the work of local creative talent.
Kathleen’s focus gradually turned toward a more architectural aesthetic. She completed a program at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, where an interest in large-scale interactive art took shape.
Art made to be used
Inspired by the Japanese moon gate, Etazin was Kathleen’s first project design: an interactive work that can enhance a landscape or living area while remaining genuinely useful. Its steel rings invite people to sit, move, and frame the world around them.
Hyatt Regency Scottsdale
Etazin Square joined the collection at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa in Gainey Ranch.
Kathleen’s work has been featured by websites and magazines around the world, always returning to the idea that art can be beautiful, useful, and open to participation.