An image of Joseph Rossano’s final mock-up. Cardboard squares represent Richlite support panels. Cardboard circles represent water drain and intake.
Here’s what’s new:
*POOL DRAIN and SOUTH WALL CLEANING: scheduled for Thursday, May 29th.
*BIRDS: birds are mirrored and hardware has been attached
*Birds will be mounted on posts and secured to Richlite panels which […]
Tacoma, Wash. (May 14, 2008)– Tacoma’s three downtown museums—Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum and Washington State History Museum—will extend their hours of operations to seven days a week for the summer season beginning Memorial Day, May 26, 2008. This schedule provides greater flexibility for residents to bring out of town guests downtown […]
The Seattle International Film Festival presents Creative Nature:
William Morris’s glass creations have secured him a reputation in the field second only to his mentor Dale Chihuly. This engaging, beautifully captured portrait of the man and his work follows him not just to the studio, but to the natural world—paragliding, diving, rock climbing—that provides his greatest […]
I thought I would share some images of the happenings in Little Rock, AR where the Mobile Hot Shop is accompanying a very impressive glass exhibition, Hot Color - Cool Glass, thanks to Alex Stisser and Eli Hansen. Featured artist Sonja Blomdahl presents some brilliant pieces in the exhibition and is our guest artist […]
May at Traver Gallery - Tacoma
Dale Chihuly: Baskets, Cylinders and Drawings
Exhibition Runs: May 10 - June 8, 2008
Reception with the artist: Saturday, May 17, 5 - 8 pm
With refreshments, and live music by “young Johnny Cash” Vince Mira from 5:30 - 8 pm
Dale Chihuly: Baskets, Cylinders and Drawings
The Traver Gallery in Tacoma is honored […]
Back in January, a crew from the Travel Channel was here to film an episode of “John Ratzenberger’s Made in America.” (John played Cliff, the mailman on “Cheers”). The episode features Dale Chihuly and the Chihuly Bridge of Glass—footage was shot on the Bridge, at the Boathouse and includes some of B-roll from […]
May 17 – 18
Demonstrations: 10 am to 12 pm Saturday
Hands-on Activity: 1 to 3 pm Saturday
Displays: 10 am to 5 pm Saturday; 12 to 5 pm Sunday
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, has inspired many glassblowers, including Dale Chihuly. Come and see original floral arrangements created by the Tacoma Chapter of Ikebana International […]
Joseph Gregory Rossano (American, born 1962)
Mirrored Murrelets, 2008
Mirrored hot-sculpted glass, steel, mold-formed fiberglass
June 7, 2008 – December, 2009
Tacoma, Wash. (May 6, 2008)— On June 7, 2008, the Museum of Glass will introduce Mirrored Murrelets, a new outdoor art installation created by Arlington, WA, artist Joseph Rossano for the Museum’s Mezzanine Plaza. Rossano created the […]
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. The sculpture will capture the emotive nature of water and […]
Special Lewis and Clark program:
A Dismal Camp
May 24-25, 2008
Clark’s Dismal Nitch unit
Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Park
Pacific County, Wash.
Three corpsmen are landing a canoe at Dismal Nitch while others struggle to set up camp in a storm. Painting by Roger Cooke. (Washington State Historical Society)
Watch the adventures of Lewis and Clark […]
Jun Kaneko: Sculpture and Painting
Artist’s Reception: First Thursday, May 1, 5 - 8 pm
Exhibition runs: May 2 - June 1, 2008
Jun Kaneko: Sculpture and Painting
The William Traver Gallery is pleased to present a solo show featuring new work by noted ceramic artist Jun Kaneko. The exhibition showcases a selection of Kaneko’s signature Dango sculptures, named […]
The Bellevue Art Museum will be exhibiting Sherry Markovitz: Shimmer, Paintings and Sculptures 1979 – 2007 from May 22 - September 7, 2008. The exhibition is a mid-career retrospective and as the excitement builds for the opening of the exhibition (and possible field trip to BAM), it seems appropriate to reflect on the Sherry […]
A very popular question among museum MOG visitors for some time was “where’s the glass!?!” But now with over a full year of all glass exhibitions and the 2007 refined Mission Statement: The Museum of Glass provides a dynamic learning environment to appreciate the medium of glass through creative experiences, collections and exhibitions, it seems […]
Join South Sound magazine for the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women Luncheon.
May 7, 2008
Did you know heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States? It kills nearly half a million women each year at the rate of nearly one per minute.
There is hope. Inside every woman is […]
Northwest Repertory Singers
in collaboration with the
Tacoma Youth Chorus
presents
Past Life Melodies
Under the direction of Paul W. Schultz, Judith Herrington and George Guenther
NWRS and TYC will perform folk songs, spirituals, hymns and other music that reminds us of our youth and journey through life. Highlights will include music from Aboriginal chant, harmonic overtone singing, and the artistic […]
Free tickets for Francis Cape’s lecture are now available at the Henry admissions desk.
Francis Cape. Two Pilasters and a Seat, 2004
Henry Art Gallery + University of Washington School of Art Lecture:
Francis Cape
Friday, April 25, 7 PM
Henry Art Gallery Auditorium
FREE, Seating is limited. First come, first served.
The University of Washington School of Art and […]
The Daybreak Star Indian Art Gallery in partnership with King County 4Culture presents a new exhibition entitled, Three S’Klallam Artists: Traditional and Contemporary Coast Salish Art. Please join us on Friday, April 25, 2008, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., at Daybreak Star in Discovery Park for the opening of this exciting new exhibit. Food, […]
The Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass exhibition has been open for nearly two months now and this is the perfect time to pause, reflect and discuss the docent experience with the exhibition. As one docent noted in regards to the Lino exhibition “it’s like trying to write a masters thesis!” […]
First Handwritten Bible in 500 Years on View at Tacoma Art Museum
The Saint John’s Bible Employs Medieval Traditions with Modern Perspective
Called “America’s Book of Kells” by Newsweek (March 6, 2000)
(Tacoma, WA) – Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible features the ornamented pages from the first handwritten Bible commissioned since […]
Don’t Miss Martin Blank
in the Hot Shop
Upcoming dates: April 19, 20, 23, 24, 26 & 30
Martin Blank’s residency continues in the Hot Shop with multiple dates over the next two weeks. Stop by and see this dynamic artist as he continues to create hot-sculpted glass components for Fluent Steps , a new permanent installation that […]
New generation of glass artists make their debut
Hilltop students featured in exhibition at Vetri International Glass
TACOMA, March 28, 2008 - Vetri International Glass in Tacoma is pleased to present a special exhibition showcasing the work of Marcus Martinez and Dylan Betz, two talented young artists from the Hilltop Artists in Residence […]
Pacific Avenue will be closed to traffic Saturday morning.
For those of you who will be attempting to get here on Saturday, April 12 . . . or attempting to direct visitors:
The annual Daffodil Parade starts at 10:15 am. The staging area is on pacific Avenue from 7th to 11th and the actual parade goes […]
April at Traver Gallery - Tacoma
Tom DeGroot: Primal Logic (abstract painting)
Nancy Worden: Fear Factor (mixed media jewerly art)
Exhibition Runs: April 12 - May 4, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12, 5 - 8 pm
With refreshments, and live music by Disinterested from 5:30 - 8 pm
And… an opening reception at Vetri International Glass:
Hilltop Artist in Residence Students […]
To help celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of Tacoma Art Museum (in its new building), Museum of Glass and Washington State History Museum will join TAM in offering $5 admission for the weekend of May 3 and 4.
All three museums did the same last summer when MOG celebrated its Fifth Anniversary.
(Admission to TAM will be free […]
Answer: Dichroic Glass is a multi layer coating placed on glass by using a highly technical vacuum deposition process. Quartz Crystal and Metal Oxides are Vaporized with an electron beam gun in an airless vacuum chamber and the vapor then floats upward and attaches then condenses on the surface of the glass in […]
