Jiří Harcuba, Marc Chagal, engraved portrait, 1977, 14cm
Jiří Harcuba (Czech, born 1928)
Visiting Artist Summer Series Residency: July 9 - 13
Lecture: July 13, 2pm
Artist Statement
Glass engraving – my heritage
My heritage is the place I was born. My heritage is also the family tradition. All my ancestors worked with glass. As a boy […]
We are exceptionally fortunate this week to host renowned Czech engraver and teacher, Jirí Harcuba, (pronounced Year-gee Har-zu-ba). Jiri’s friends and Czech colleagues Petr Novotny and Martin Janecky will join him on the Hot Shop floor.
Petr and Martin will blow cylinders. Once annealed and cut, Jiri will engrave on them. Once engraved, […]
July at the Washington State History Museum
UPCOMING EXHIBIT
Tacoma’s Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way
August 18 through December 7, 2008
The South was not the only place where Americans were denied equal rights. Right here in Washington, people could not get jobs or housing because of their color. The national civil rights movement of the […]
June
School Tours: 47 groups, 1015 students and 218 chaperones
June 11th – 15th
Lino Tagliapietra’s forth Hot Shop Residency
June 12th
Mirrored Murrelets training with Joe Rossano
June 18th
Glass Art Society (GAS) Conference, Public Demos: Hot Shop Team bring Austin Winter’s creation Bacon Boy to life
June 19th
Arts Connect, Boys Night first showcase
June 25th – 29th
Visiting Artist Summer […]
Here come the brothers! And it’s July 4th weekend. Fireworks appropo!
As the LA Times wrote in a 2008 review: Mixed media doesn’t get any more mixed than in the outrageously smart, irresistibly ugly, gloriously provocative work of Einar and Jamex de la Torre.
For their residency, Einar and Jamex plan to pick up where […]
geoffrey rene garza
monoliths and maniacs!
geoff garza
the truth
david ruth
sticks and stones
david ruth
erebus
geoffrey rené garza: monoliths and maniacs!
Exhibition Runs: July 5 - August 3, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 3, 5 - 8 pm
The Traver Gallery is proud to present Monoliths and Maniacs!, a solo exhibition showcasing a powerful new body of work by Seattle-based artist Geoffrey René […]
Visiting Artist Summer Series
Residency: July 3rd - July 6th
Lecture: Sunday, July 6th at 2:00pm in Theater
Brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre consider themselves both American and Mexican. Born in Mexico to an American-Mexican mother and Mexican father, they spent the majority of their adolescence in California. As a result, the subject matter […]
Reminder: The Time of Lino, the film produced in conjunction with our exhibition Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect and included in the catalogue, will air on KCTS 9 at 7:00 pm Saturday, June 28.
Join us for the
In the Spirit:
Northwest Native Arts Market and Festival
Saturday, June 28 > 10 AM to 5 PM
Sunday, June 29 > NOON to 5 PM
This Native arts market features products from a variety of artisans and a festival that includes dancers, musicians, and storytellers from local tribes. Festival visitors can also watch demonstrations […]
The Tall Ships® Tacoma 2008 Festival is a free international sailing event and festival that is part of the American Sail Training Association’s Tall Ships CHALLENGE®. More than 32 sailing vessels will visit Tacoma during the festival and will be available for tours and sailing adventures. The festival will be held along Tacoma’s […]
Photo by Barb White
Summer is here and beachcombing is a popular past time in our coast region. A notable item to look out for is the glass fishing float. Glass floats have been used by European and Asian fisheries for well over 80 years, possibly more.
In recent times due to the less costly and […]
Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Danny Danziger (Viking, 2007)
Reviewed by Joan Soderland Hommel
Museum is an intriguing, although sometimes annoying, look inside New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s largest and indisputably greatest museums. If you are looking for a discourse on the Metropolitan’s collection management […]
Early in May, I took a senior citizens tour to Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington. Coincidentally, I had just finished reading Pilchuck: a Glass School by Tina Oldknow. The book is the history of the founding and development of the school conceived by Dale Chihuly. On the day of the visit the sky was […]
Thea Foss Waterway, summer 2005
Photo by Barb White
Next time you are in the MOG Grand Hall, take a moment to look out the window. What do you see? For many of us, the view beyond the promenade is a very familiar vista. We see boats; we sometimes see Mount Rainier; we see a lot […]
A glass bottom boat is a boat with sections of glass below the waterline allowing passengers to observe the underwater environment from within the boat. Over the years the design was converted around the paddle boat. Between 1945 and 1994, eight glass bottom boats were built, experiencing few alterations other than replacing the canvas top, […]
