Museum Hours
Wednesday – Sunday | 10am–5pm
What’s Happening at MOG
Nancy Callan: Forces at Play
Opening Celebration
Saturday, October 5 | 6–8pm
Please join us in celebrating the opening of Nancy Callan: Forces at Play at Museum of Glass. The evening will include the first public viewing of the exhibition, light bites and a cash bar, and remarks from Nancy Callan.
Earthlings and Extraterrestrials:
20 Years of Kids Design Glass
On view now
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Kids Design Glass Program, the Museum has pulled together a selection of creatures from the program’s body of work featuring a range of critters from both this world and others, created by the minds of children over the past two decades. In Earthlings and Extraterrestrials: 20 Years of Kids Design Glass, these pieces will be set in conversation with a collage of paintings and photographs which highlight the impact of climate change on our planet.
2024 Visiting Artist Lineup
March – December 2024
Check out this year’s lineup of Visiting Artists joining us in the Hot Shop!
Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience Exhibition Tours
October 20 | 11am–12pm & 12–1pm
Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience is returning for its sixth year October 17–20! During Refract, Museum of Glass will be offering curator-led tours of A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists and Nancy Callan: Forces at Play on Sunday, October 20. Regular Museum admission is required to attend the tours and all Museum guests are welcome to join in.
2025 Visiting Artist Residency Application
Due November 1, 2024 at midnight PST
Each year, Museum of Glass invites artists to apply for a Visiting Artist Residency in the Hot Shop to explore new ideas and techniques or push the boundaries of a current series. Selected artists will have full use of our state-of-the-art Hot Shop and the assistance of MOG's Hot Shop Team. Applications will be selected to support a wide variety of project scopes, including one project that draws connections between science and art, which will be awarded the Sheldon Levin Memorial Visiting Artist Residency.
Hands-On Workshops
Join MOG educators to learn a variety of glass art techniques and create your own work of art to take home!
Museum of Glass News
In the Galleries
Learn more about the exhibitions currently on view.
A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists
October 21, 2023 - October 2024
A Two-Way Mirror is an exhibition of contemporary Black artists who have used glass to create work that deconstructs social, cultural, gender, and racial identity concerns. Each artist uses glass to reflect thoughts and bodies that have historically been fraught with exploitation. Due to its reflectivity and translucence, glass is an apt medium to interrogate identity constructs such as the theory of double consciousness presented by W.E.B. Dubois in his seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk.
Spotlight on Chihuly
March 30, 2024 - January 2025
Dale Chihuly’s boundless artistic vision has elevated the Pacific Northwest to an internationally acclaimed center for glassmaking. A native of Tacoma, Chihuly was one of the first Studio Glass artists to travel to the island of Murano, Italy to observe the secretive processes of Venetian glass factories. He was struck, not only by their technical prowess, but the importance of working as a team. These two ideas: experimentation to push the limits of glass, and the importance of collaboration, have had a lasting impact on Chihuly’s career and, subsequently, the culture of glassblowing in the Pacific Northwest.
Out of the Vault: Art History 101
July 13, 2024 – Summer 2025
Like painters with a palette, glass artists harness the unique qualities of molten glass to make artwork capable of telling the same stories art has been telling for centuries. Glass can create landscapes that represent the world around us; reflect how we see ourselves and others in portraits; compose still lives that discuss our relationship to our material culture; or be sculpted in abstract works that convey emotion and ideas.
Out of the Vault: Art History 101 takes visitors on a visual journey through the four basic pillars of art history: landscape, portraiture, still life, and abstraction, showcased through new and significant acquisitions from the Museum’s collections.
Enhance Your Experience
Take a guided tour, participate in workshops, and visit the Museum Hot Shop.
Make Your Own Art
Learn how to create your own glass art in a variety of hands-on workshops inspired by the Museum’s current exhibitions, the season, events, and more.
Details on available workshops is available here.
Take a Tour
Add a docent-led tour to your next visit to MOG and get an personal and interactive experience in the galleries. Want to really stretch your legs? Consider an outdoor walking tour and learn about the art and architecture on the Thea Foss Waterway.
See Who’s in the Hot Shop
The Museum’s Visiting Artist Residency Program hosts artists in our world-class Hot Shop to create new works in glass with our Hot Shop Team. These artists create a sense of excitement and wonder as they experiment and explore new directions in their art that may not be possible in their own studios.