MOG Blogs Art is the exhibitions blog for the Museum of Glass. As a contemporary art museum, we present artwork that we hope raises questions and makes you think. This blog is a place to learn more and talk about what you’re thinking…
The Museum’s exhibition Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass features the work of an artist who lives and works on Murano, the island of glassblowers in the Venetian lagoon.
This, summer, you are invited to read three books that are set in Lino’s world of Venice, Italy and join other Museum Members [...]
This summer, the action has been in the Hot Shop. The Summer Series of Visiting Artists is coming to a close, and it’s been a fun ride. Artists from the Pacific Northwest and overseas have worked with our Home Hot Shop Team to realize their ideas in glass. Several artists whose work [...]
It’s a celebration at MOG today and through the weekend. Visiting Artist Martin Blank is the the Hot Shop–he’s very dynamic, and there’s a huge crew making huge glass sculptures. It’s really fun to watch. There are break dancers, special hands-on art projects, the debut of the mobile hot shop outside on [...]
Our 5th anniversary show, Mining Glass, features a diverse group of acclaimed artists who although not part of the Studio Glass movement have used glass as the medium for some quite interesting work. The show fills both the North and South galleries and many of the pieces are very large in scale. Several [...]
This morning, I caught some footage of Jo Yarrington, this week’s visiting artist (also in our show Transparently Built), playing with how light passes through large glass rondels we made in the Hot Shop during day one of her residency. Looks like it’s turning into a performance piece…
Music: Revolve by hisboyelroy
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This summer, we’ll [...]
Being in a glass residency for the week, having never worked with glass or, for that matter, sculpturally has been an interesting and ultimately rewarding challenge. Prepping for the residency became a crash course in physics, optics, and the appropriateness of certain ideas to the medium of glass. It involved a two day consultantship with [...]
For Josh Maul, Jim Campbell’s exhibition was too rich to inspire just one piece of music. Part of resDeus, the band whose tune is part of our latest podcast, Josh wrote a song inspired by the artwork and recorded it with his girlfriend, Lizzie, as part of a project they’re calling everGREEN.
It’s called [...]
