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 […]
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 […]
Fritz Dreisbach (Tucson, AZ)
Residency: June 25 – 29
Conversation with the Artist: Sunday, June 29, 2 p.m.
Fritz Dreisbach has been called the Johnny Appleseed of the American Studio Glass movement. For more than 40 years, he has acted as a crusader for glassblowing, spreading the excitement, techniques and science of the craft through demonstrations and workshops […]
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 […]
Simply put, Seattle artist Cappy Thompson paints stories on glass. Gathering the Light celebrates the story of glass blowing on an epic scale. The piece, which measures 11 1/2-feet high by 15-feet wide, depicts an elaborate landscape of colorful vignettes from a mythical world of glassmakers. Trumpet blowing fish, an entourage of visitors and a […]
Dante Marioni
…is known for his mastery of Venetian glassblowing techniques. In his hands, the traditional vessel is transformed into modern sculpture with shape and surface simultaneously minimalist and delicately complex.
His elegant vessels are compelling for their bold colors, striking geometries, graceful forms and impeccable finishes. Most of the forms he chooses are utilitarian in nature […]
It is not uncommon for an artist to be touted as “the greatest” or “most significant,” but in the case of Lino Tagliapietra, the pronouncements happen to be true. Tagliapietra, now age 73, left school at age eleven to work full time in the glassmaking industry. Considering the time period and the post-World War […]
The Museum of Glass will welcome artist Joseph Rossano to the Hot Shop for a five-day Visiting Artist residency, January 9 – 13, 2008. During his visit, Rossano will create a flock of glass birds that will dive into a proposed underwater installation. Mirrored Murrelets will be installed in the Museum’s mid-level plaza […]
