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The Museum of Glass welcomes Martin Blank, one of America’s most significant figurative sculptors, for an extended Visiting Artist residency to create components for Fluent Steps, a new permanent installation designed for the Museum’s Main Plaza reflecting pool and scheduled to open in early fall.
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The Museum of Glass invites teachers and educators to visit the Museum on Thursday, February 28, 2008 to learn about the latest educational offerings for students.
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The Museum of Glass announces a new exhibition, Living Legacies: Homage to a Maestro, opening on March 28, 2008. This exhibition was organized to complement Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass, which opens on February 23.
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The Museum of Glass invites members of the media to preview Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass. Curator Susanne K. Frantz and artist Lino Tagliapietra will lead a tour through the exhibition and will be available to answer questions.
The Museum of Glass announces the selection of Melissa G. Post for the position of curator, effective January 7, 2008.
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The Museum of Glass will welcome artist Joseph Rossano to the Hot Shop for a five-day Visiting Artist residency, January 9 – 13, 2008.
Opening in conjunction with Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass, the Museum of Glass presents Dante Marioni: Form, Color, Pattern, a mid-career survey comprising more than twenty exceptional glass works crafted over the past two decades by Seattle artist, Dante Marioni.
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The Museum of Glass is pleased to welcome internationally acclaimed performance artist Sha Sha Higby for a special presentation of her original work, The Glass Jungle.
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The Museum of Glass has scheduled a variety of engaging activities, performances and demonstrations to celebrate each of the holidays in November and December.
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The Museum of Glass presents Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass, the first exhibition to look at Tagliapietra’s art and forty years of his career.
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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