The action in the Hot Shop is larger than life this weekend! Visiting Artist John Miller is here making 4-foot-tall goblets in collaboration with Paul Marioni (Friday afternoon), Rik Allen (Saturday) and Randy Walker (Sunday). Traver Gallery Tacoma is hosting a reception Saturday evening at the gallery, and John will present a lecture and slideshow [...]

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MOG received two great reviews over the weekend for shows in our galleries.  Michael Upchurch of The Seattle Times wrote a wonderful feature article about artist Preston Singletary whose exhibition Echoes, Fire, and Shadows, is on view in MOG’s gallery.  Preston is also working in the Hot Shop this week with fellow Native American artist [...]

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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.

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For the sixth consecutive year, the Museum of Glass and Finland’s iittala, Inc. are teaming up for a weekend dedicated to birds and bird enthusiasts.

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The Museum of Glass announces the schedule for its Seventh Annual Visiting Artist Summer Series which features a different Visiting Artist at work in the Hot Shop each week.

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Daniel Clayman will work in the Hot Shop as a Visiting Artist at the Museum of Glass June 3 – 7, 2009.

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Venice native Laura de Santillana has been working in the Hot Shop with the MOG Team since Wednesday, April 8 and will be here through Sunday.  She is the granddaughter of Paolo Venini, founder of the Venini glasswork company in Murano, Italy, and has been a revered figure in the international studio glass [...]

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Seattle artist Martin Blank—one of America’s premier figurative sculptors—and his team of artists will finish placing glass in his new 207-foot-long outdoor art installation, Fluent Steps, today and tomorrow, April 9 and 10, 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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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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