Visiting Artist Lineup
February
Romson Bustillo
February 26-March 2
Born in the Philippines, Romson Bustillo has taught mixed media printmaking and interdisciplinary art throughout the Seattle area (including Pratt Fine Arts Center and University of Washington) for over 25 years. Carving his own path, Bustillo integrates an interdisciplinary practice with a mixed media printmaking foundation.
He was awarded the Seattle Print Arts Larry Sommers Art Fellowship in 2016. In 2017 he was co-recipient of the Garboil Grant established by the late artist Sue Jobs, an award that considers artists “… engaging audiences outside the aesthetic industrial complex.” He received Arts-Individual Projects Grants from 4Culture in 2018 and 2020 in support of his installations and collaborative interventions. He is the recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship (2019) and the Artist Trust Artist Innovator Award (2021). He received a Northwest Film Forum Collective Power Fund Award in 2022 in "New Work/Projects" category. Bustillo is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery.
March
Nancy Callan
March 5 & 6
Nancy Callan’s exhibition Nancy Callan: Forces at Play is currently on view at Museum of Glass. Following this residency, please join us for an exhibition celebration and reception with Callan on March 8. More details here.
Nancy Callan’s artistic voice as a glass sculptor reflects her high-level training and talents. Callan attended the Massachusetts College of Art (BFA 1996) and lives in Seattle, WA, where she is part of the vibrant Northwest glass community. Callan’s numerous awards include the Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship and residencies at Museum of Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH), the Pittsburgh Glass Center (Pittsburgh, PA), and The Chrysler Museum (Norfolk, VA). She began her glass career in the Pacific Northwest in 1996 as a team member for Maestro Lino Tagliapietra, rising to become his main assistant.
Callan has been exhibiting her work since 2001, at galleries including Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA), Schantz Gallery (Stockbridge, MA), Hawk Gallery (Columbus, OH), Blue Rain Gallery (Santa Fe, NM), and Holsten Galleries (Santa Fe, NM). In addition to exhibiting and creating her own work, Callan enjoys the challenges of teaching and sharing her skills with students. She has offered advanced glassblowing workshops at Pilchuck Glass School (Stanwood, WA), The Pittsburgh Glass Center (Pittsburgh, PA), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Deer Isle, ME), and Penland School of Craft (Penland, NC). Callan also enjoys collaboration, working with New York City lighting designer Lindsey Adelman and Los Angeles artist Katherine Gray on recent special projects.
Callan’s artwork can be found in the permanent collections of the Shanghai Museum of Art (Shanghai, China), Museum of Glass, the Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY), the Muskegon Museum of Art (Muskegon, MI), and the Museum of Northwest Art (La Connor, WA), as well as in numerous private collections.
Nancy Callan with Shadow Realm. Photo by Russell Johnson.
Nancy Callan. Comme les Filles. Photo by Russell Johnson.
Tariqa Waters
March 12-16
One of Seattle Magazine's most influential artists, Tariqa Waters' innovative practice masterfully commands space through her use of mixed-media tableaus, paintings, photographs, film, glass, and whimsical immersive installations. Her technicolor characterizations of multigenerational commercial references reclaim a sincere aesthetic steeped in effortless regality and proudly celebrated traditions.
Over the years, the art of storytelling has served as a resourceful tool within the evolution of her work. When she sits and thinks about her journey as a Black woman and mother in an inequitable art market, she often finds herself developing innovative ways to lampoon and defy generalizations that doubt her capabilities. Whether sustaining a decade-long, renowned, conceptual brick-and-mortar community-based art installation called Martyr Sauce, or shapeshifting that brick-and-mortar into a television show called Thank You, MS PAM on The Seattle Channel, celebrating artists, creatives, and small businesses around the PNW, or evolving her preferred medium from oil painting to motorized large-scale immersive fabrications and blown glass, she has never shied away from taking risks. Her world drips with colorful irreverence and cheeky humor, flipping gender scripts, remixing Black cultural touchpoints, and reflecting the contradictions of daily life.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
April
Cheryl Derricotte
April 2–6
Cheryl Derricotte returns to the Hot Shop to continue a historical portrait series, illuminating the life of Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who was the mother of six children of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. No known portraits or drawings of Hemings exist, so Derricotte has been crafting Hemings’ portrait in sculptural form. This tremendous undertaking was acknowledged at the Museum’s 2024 Red Hot Auction & Gala with the Artist’s Choice Coney Award, the prize for which included this residency.
Corey Pemberton
April 30–May 4
As a queer person of mixed race, Corey Pemberton often feels other. Knowing nothing about his African roots and very little about his European heritage, the artist considers lineage and the idea of connectedness in his work. His blown glass baskets are inspired by his presumed ancestors, created with a European technique that borrows forms and patterns from the sweetgrass weavers of South Africa. This will be Pemberton’s first residency at Museum of Glass.
May
Ben Beres
May 14–18
Ben Beres is a Seattle-based artist who has been printmaking for the past two decades, with a focus on creating detailed works through the process of etching on copper. Over the years, his practice has expanded to include work in the as-yet-experimental arena of vitreography (printing with glass plates), etching on glass, and public engagement through performance. His residency will be an opportunity for Beres to continue to experiment on vessels that combine glassblowing with this printmaking practice. His residency is in honor of the People’s Choice Coney Award, which he received at MOG’s 2024 Red Hot Auction & Gala.
July
Wendy Red Star
July 23-27
Wendy Red Star lives and works in Portland, Oregon. An enrolled member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Tribe, Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Drawing on pop culture, conceptual art strategies, and the Crow traditions within which she was raised, Red Star pushes the conversation surrounding Native American perspectives in new directions. Her residency, part of an on-going collaboration with Pilchuck Glass School, will be an opportunity for Red Star to experiment with incorporating glass into her artistic practice.
Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); The Newark Museum (Newark, NJ), Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), The Broad (Los Angeles, CA); the Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA); Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (Paris, France); Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA); Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL); St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO); the Contemporary Austin (Austin, TX); Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA) (North Adams, MA); The Drawing Center (New York, NY); and the Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH), among many others. Her monumental sculpture, The Soil You See…, was included in Beyond Granite: Pulling Together, the first curated outdoor exhibition in the history of the National Mall (Washington, D.C), organized by Monument Lab in 2023. The work was then acquired by Tippet Rise Art Center (Fishtail, MT). Red Star’s was included in Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest exhibition at South London Gallery, in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) in 2024.
