Seattle artist Martin Blank, one of America’s premier young sculptors, finished assembling his new 207-foot-long outdoor glass art installation, Fluent Steps, on April 18, 2009. The work was commissioned by the Museum of Glass for its Permanent Collection of twentieth and twenty-first century glass and created for the Museum’s Main Plaza reflecting pool.
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The Museum of Glass is pleased to present Preston Singletary’s first mid-career survey, Echoes, Fire, and Shadows, opening July 11, 2009. Singletary is recognized internationally for his work, which combines two of the Northwest’s most prominent artistic influences—traditional Native American designs and the medium of glass.
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The Museum of Glass will introduce its Permanent Collection with the exhibition, Incoming! Selections from the Permanent Collection, opening on May 16, 2009.
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The Museum of Glass is pleased to welcome a series of talented female artists to the Hot Shop Amphitheater during April and May 2009. These artists include Chin-Yu Fu (Chicago, IL), Laura Diaz de Santillana (Venice, Italy), Flo Perkins (Sante Fe, NM), Clare Belfrage (Adelaide, Australia) and Nancy Blair (Melbourne Beach, FL).
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Tacoma residents Jennifer Perusse and Zach Parsons are the winners of the Museum of Glass $30,000 Wedding Give-away Essay Contest. The couple learned the good news during the Museum’s Wedding Open House on February 12, 2009
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The Museum of Glass, along with some of Tacoma’s finest wedding specialists, are partnering to host a free wedding open house on February 12, 2009, from 6 to 8 p.m.
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Lino Tagliapietra, the maestro of glassblowing, will return to the Museum of Glass Hot Shop for a two-week residency beginning February 1, 2009.
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The Museum of Glass is the recipient of the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (AACG) Annual Award for 2008.
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In a first-ever partnership, the Museum of Glass and Seattle’s Burke Museum will collaborate with Northwest glass artist, Preston Singletary as he creates a work of art in the Museum of Glass Hot Shop.
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The Museum of Glass presents the Contrasts Multi-Sensory Experience, a new educational program to augment the ongoing exhibition, Contrasts: a Glass Primer.
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About the Museum of Glass
All glass, all the time. Experience contemporary glass art in a breathtakingly beautiful museum on Tacoma's revitalized waterfront. Feel the heat as you watch a team of artists create masterpieces from molten glass in the hot shop amphitheater, the Museum’s working glass studio. See edgy exhibitions of 20th- and 21st-century glass in the galleries, participate in a hands-on art project, watch original documentary films about glass art and the artists who create it, shop for glorious gifts in the store and stroll across the remarkable Chihuly Bridge of Glass.
Open Wednesday through Saturday 10am to 5pm, Third Thursdays 10am to 8pm, Sunday 12pm to 5pm. Store is also open Tuesdays 10am – 5pm. Summer hours (Memorial Day through Labor Day): also open Monday and Tuesday from 10am to 5pm. Closed September 30th, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. Admission is free for members, $10 general, $8 seniors, military and students (13+ with ID), $8 groups of 10 or more, $4 children (6-12) years old. Children under 6 are admitted free. Admission is free every third Thursday of the month from 5pm to 8pm.
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