Portland Presence
Mel George, Deborah Horrell, Jeremy Lepisto
exhibition runs: April 3 - May 3, 2009
opening reception: thursday, April 2, 5 - 8 pm
Traver Gallery is pleased to present Portland Presence, an exhibition featuring sculptural work by three leading Portland, Oregon artists working in glass. A smaller city than Seattle with a population approximately two thirds the […]

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Another White Trash Wedding by Diane Kurzyna aka Ruby Re-Usable
art made from repurposed plastic bags
March 16th – June 13th, 2009
Another White Trash Wedding is part of an on-going series exploring the unholy relationship we have with waste. Utilizing disposable materials such as plastic bags and vegetable netting, the “white trash” in the title […]

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Incoming: Museum of Glass Permanent Collection
May 16 – June 27, 2010
Organized by Museum of Glass
The Museum of Glass will introduce its Permanent Collection with the exhibition, Incoming! Selections from the Permanent Collection, opening on May 16, 2009. This is the first in a series of exhibitions devoted to the Museum’s collection. It will […]

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Christina Orr-Cahall, chief executive of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., has been chosen as the new director for the Experience Music Project-Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. She succeeds Josi Callan, who served as interim director of the museum since 2006 and Orr-Cahall expects to begin on or before July […]

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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).
“The glass […]

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On Sunday, February 1st, Lino Tagliapietra participated in the museum’s Kids Design Glass program and Evening Magazine was present to shoot a story on the program. The reporter on scene, Jim Dever, and his crew were very excited about the story and really enjoyed spending time in the Hot Shop.
This story will air on […]

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This summer, Pratt Fine Arts Center is launching its first Study Abroad Program. In collaboration with the Kamenicky Senov School of Industrial Arts for Glass, Pratt has organized a two-week intensive program designed to teach students the technical, intellectual and artistic processes of traditional Czech moldmaking, kiln casting and coldworking — three techniques often used […]

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The “Click! Family Flick” series will premiere at The Grand Cinema with “The Princess Bride” on Saturday, March 21 at 10:30 a.m. The special series, shown the third Saturday of each month, will bring popular children’s movies to the big screen absolutely free.
“The Click! Family Flick is a great way for families to experience […]

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look forward
March 14 - April 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14, 4 - 7 pm
Traver Gallery - Tacoma is proud to present LOOK FORWARD - a group exhibition curated by a selection of glass artists influential in bringing about the studio glass movement. Pairing these current masters with artists who they feel follow in their […]

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Hot Shop Residency: March 11 -13, 2009.
Kait Rhoads received her BFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1993, and her MFA in Glass from Alfred University, NY in 2001. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, WA, and the recipient of […]

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by Charles Gounod
sung in French with projected English translation
Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 2pm*
* please note that Daylight Savings Time begins on March 8
Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma
Running time: 3 hours
Join us for one of opera’s most emotionally intense works, the searing story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in […]

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Visiting Artist Residency: March 4 - 8, 2009
Conversation with Artist: March 8, 2pm Theater
Artist Biography
Scott Benefield received his MFA from Ohio State University in 1990 following a year spent studying with Ann Wolff in Sweden on a Fulbright-Hayes grant. He was a founder of the New Orleans School of GlassWorks and served as […]

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Visiting Artist Residency: March 18 - 22, 2009
Artist Biography
Gay Outlaw’s sculptural work explores form through structure, pattern and translation. She has had solo shows at SFMOMA (1997 SECA art award), the University of California Long Beach, and Mills College Art Museum. She has been included in group shows at the Berkeley Art Museum; the […]

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