Daniel Clayman will work in the Hot Shop as a Visiting Artist at the Museum of Glass June 3 – 7, 2009. This residency coincides with his exhibition, White Light: Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman, currently on display in the Museum’s gallery.
Beginning with the modular construction techniques which premiered in White Light, the artist […]
Visiting Artist Residency: May 20 - 24, 2009
Conversation with the Artist: May 24, 2pm Theater
Artist Biography
Nancy Blair is an artist and published author. She received her BFA from Alfred University in New York and an MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Jersey. She is a recent recipient of […]
Born in Venice, Laura Diaz de Santillana attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. After working as a graphic designer at the design firm of Vignelli Associates in 1976, she returned to Italy and began an active collaboration with Vetreria Venini and Co., founded by her grandfather, Paolo Venini. At the […]
Visiting Artist Residency: April 22 - 26, 2009
Conversation with the Artist: April 26, 2pm Theater
Artist Biography
Flo Perkins makes cool things about moments captured, the invisible, and the familiar as iconic or ironic. Whether of the natural world or of the urban environment, Perkins is developing themes about adaptive survival, disappearance, and change, using […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Visiting Artist Residency: February 4 -8 & February 11 - 15
The Museum is honored to once again host Lino Tagliapietra in the Hot Shop. Lino’s glass-blowing skills still trump other efforts in the United States and elsewhere. Although rooted in the thousand-year-old story and traditions of Venice, the inventiveness of his work keeps it relevant […]
Visiting Artist Residency: February 25 - March 1
Conversation with Artist: October 19, 2pm Theater
Artist Biography
Roberley Bell spent her childhood in Latin America and Southeast Asia, before returning to the United States to attend the University of Massachusetts and State University of New York at Alfred from where she holds an MFA in Sculpture. Bell […]
Nancy Callan: Come On, Get Happy!
January 24-February 28, 2009
Opening Reception and Glassblowing Demonstration: January 24th
Hawk Galleries
Columbus, Ohio
To preview the exhbition, please visit: http://www.hawkgalleries.com/default.aspx
Image: “Speedy Blue Winkle”
Lino Tagliapietra, the maestro of glassblowing, will return to the Museum of Glass Hot Shop for a two-week residency beginning February 1, 2009. The residency will continue February 4 – 8 and 11 – 15, 2009. During his time at MOG, Tagliapietra will demonstrate his expertise that has earned him the distinction of one […]
Paul Cunningham will be joining Dante in the Hot Shop on Saturday, Jan. 10 and Sunday, Jan. 11.
About the Artist
Paul was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and began his career in glass in 1984 at the Glass Eye. A short stint in the shipping department led to a spot in front of the […]
Dante Marioni / Seattle, WA
VA Residency: January 7 – 11, 2009
Assisted by Janusz Pozniak and the MG Team
Booksigning: Saturday, January 10, 1:30 p.m.
No Sunday lecture
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 […]
Etsuko Ichikawa: Traces of the Molten State
Bellevue Arts Museum
October 4, 2008 - May 3, 2009 EXTENDED!
Biography
Etsuko Ichikawa is a Tokyo-born, Seattle-based visual artist and her work is a continuing investigation of what lies between the ephemeral and the eternal. Her body of works are examples of creating something tangible from abstract concepts, and […]
Doug Jeck
Visiting Artist Residency: December 17 - 21, 2008
Conversation with Artist: Sunday, December 21 at 2PM in the Theater
SHORT BIO………Doug Jeck has taught ceramics at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle since 1996.
He earned his B.F.A. at the Appalachian Center for the Arts and Crafts in Smithville, TN […]
Dale Chihuly is most frequently recognized for revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement by expanding its original premise of the solitary artist working in a studio environment to encompass the notion of collaborative teams and a division of labor within the creative process. Chihuly’s practice of using teams has led to the development of complex, […]
Corban Walker
VA Residency: November 12 - 16, 2008
Conversation with Artist: Sunday, November 16 2PM, Theater
Visiting Artist Residency Project
The recent work has focused on using glass to create architectural sculptural objects. The objects appear as large models or elaborate constructions that present the viewer with an unusual perception of scale. These sculptures are assembled […]
Visiting Artist Residency: November 19 - 23
Biography
“Glass brings another dimension to Native American art. It’s luminous quality and shadow effect are like a spirit that appears when this lighting is right”
-Preston Singletary
In a unique meeting of European glass-blowing tradition and Northwest Native design, Preston Singletary’s artwork depicts cultural and historical images from his […]
RESIDENCY: October 29 – November 2nd
LECTURE: Sunday, November 2nd, 2 p.m.
REMINDER: Hot Shop closes at 4 p.m. Wed – Sat.
Bertil Vallien, a prominent figure in Swedish glass community and master sandcaster, returns to the Hot Shop this week. His previous residencies were in 2003 concurrent with an exhibition of his work in […]
