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Museum of Glass (MOG) and Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) are teaming up to offer a joint admission ticket November 11 – 15, 2009. The ticket price is $15 for regular adult admission to both museums, a $6 savings over purchasing individual admission at each museum.
The MOG Mobile Hot Shop will appear at the Proctor Arts Fest this Saturday, August 1. Stop by and watch all the action!
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Last weekend, CNN and Headline News aired a travel piece featuring Tacoma’s Museum District. It is also showing on CNN.com.
Watch it now…
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Our very own Alex Stisser’s exhibition just opened at Traver Gallery, Tacoma. Come see Alex working in the Hot Shop and then go next door to see his incredible art at Traver.
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City of Tacoma workers are in the process of re-installing Howard Ben Tre’s Water Forest, a public art sculpture located on the southwest corner of MOG’s Main Plaza. Water Forest was commissioned by the City of Tacoma and originally installed in June, 2002, shortly before the Museum’s opening. One of the tubes was pushed over [...]
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USA Today highlighted the Chihuly Bridge of Glass as a great ‘travel freebie’ in today’s issue.
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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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Traver Gallery-Tacoma is proud to present an exhibition of new glass sculpture by artist Martin Blank. The latest body of his work will debut at Traver Gallery in conjunction with the unveiling of the artist’s permanent installation, Fluent Steps, at the Museum of Glass. The featured sculptures at the gallery were inspired by the process [...]
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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