Chad Holliday
Visiting Artist Summer Series Residency: July 16 - 20
Lecture: July 20, 2pm
Chad Holliday was the first Hot Shop technician at the Museum of Glass. The original day tank furnace and Hot and Cold Shop equipment that are still in use were built and assembled at his hand. He returns to […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lino’s Back at MOG!
June 11 - 15, 2008
9 am – 3 pm Wednesday – Saturday; 12 – 5 pm Sunday
Lino Tagliapietra is back in the Hot Shop for one more 5-day Visiting Artist residency! His exhibition, Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass, has inspired visitors all spring. Don’t miss your opportunity […]
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, in partnership with Pilchuck Glass School, presents: Sixth Annual Visiting Artist Summer Series, June 25 – September 7, 2007
Tacoma, Wash. (May 20, 2008)— The Museum of Glass announces the schedule for its Sixth Annual Visiting Artist Summer Series which features a different visiting artist at work in the Hot Shop each […]
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 […]
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 […]
There are two new outdoor installation projects IN PROGRESS for the Museum. I thought you might like an overview:
Joseph Rossano / Mirrored Murrelets / Middle Plaza and Reflecting Pool
*In January, Joe created 200 glass stylized murrelets in the Hot Shop.
*Mirroring the inside of birds (at Chihuly Studio in Tacoma) is underway. Estimated […]
Preston Singletary will be the Visiting Artist in the Hot Shop next weekend, making work to be included an exhibition of his work here opening May 23, 2009.
The residency is TWO-PART: Two days in April, two days in May.
RESIDENCY PROJECT: The Museum is organizing an exhibition of Preston’s work, Preston […]
Martin Blank to Create New Outdoor Installation at the Museum of Glass
Tacoma, Wash. (March 26, 2008)— 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 […]
Most of you have witnessed the maestro, Lino Tagliapietra, in the Hot Shop this week.
Expect a different kind of spectacular this next week with Visiting Artist Hank Murta Adams: March 5 - 9, 2008.
Hank arrives Wednesday, March 5, 2008 with a team of four assistants (three familiar faces among them were here November 2007 […]
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 […]
