The Tacoma News Tribune just published a significant article about the Australian glassblowers who will be here working with Richard Marquis this week and next. The article gives some great background on who these guys are, why they are important and how knowledge of making glass got from Italy to the Pacific Northwest to […]

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Next week (Oct 12-14), famed Finnish designer Oiva Toikka joins us again. His immensely popular Birds by Toikka series for Iitalla are collected worldwide. Several members have told me they watch the calendar for what has become an annual event at the Museum: Bird Lovers’ Weekend. During this residency, Professor Toikka and […]

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Our annual gala was this past weekend. Artists from around the world, most of whom have been Visiting Artists here, donated artwork to our live and silent auctions. The Visiting Artist program as a whole was featured during the live auction as well—a “paddle raise” for the VA program brought in tens of thousands.
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Jeremy has a body of work that uses imagery from city landscapes painted on glass. Sometimes that imagery is painted on glass in the form of something that from the city’s landscape, an 18-wheeler or in this case a water tower.
At his Portland studio, using a special paint made for this purpose, Jeremy painted […]

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Mel’s work this week was largely about memories of Australia. Currently a Portland resident, she misses many things about her home country. In this video you’ll see her working with our team to make one of a series of simplified tree forms. Several of these were quite large, and the one in […]

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Here are some photos of the two artists who joined us for the last week of the Summer Series. Check out Jeremy’s water tower forms and Mel’s simplified tree forms…

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Jeremy and Mel (husband and wife) are up from Portland and have plans to do some really cool work this week. This is the last week of a very successful Summer Series of Visiting Artists, and I think Jeremy and Mel will make for a great finale.
In this video clip, they introduce themselves and […]

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I really like Dave Walters work, so it was a pleasure to see him here this week. Here are some photos of Dave making large white vessels. The ones that make the cut will become “canvases” for his paintings, the shapes of the vessels telling part of the story.
Check out the photos…

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Dave often uses imagery from fairy tales in his work which he paints onto the surface of the glass. But very often, the glass form itself helps tell the story. In this case, Dave is making a shape inspired by a beanstalk, and you’ve probably guessed the painted imagery will be from Jack […]

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Dave Walters creates some really amazing work and has been at the Museum working with other artists many times. This week, he is the Visiting Artist and everyone else is assisting him. Dave often paints on glass vessels with a level of detail and precision that is truly eye-catching. In this video […]

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