Beccy Feather is a British-born glassmaker who lives and works in Bremerton, WA. Beccy has an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and has consistently pushed to elevate her artwork and invest in the education of the community. She navigates daily between the roles of production flame worker, artist, educator, and tea drinker. Her artwork […]
Co-organized by the Seattle Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams will be the summative career retrospective of one of the most prolific and boundary-breaking artists of our time. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1948, Scott grapples with profound social, historical, racial, economic, and personal […]
Traver Gallery will be featuring works by contestants of Netflix's Blown Away Season 4. This exhibition includes Season 4 Grand Prize winner Morgan Peterson and Challange #3 winners Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen and Gemma Hollister. Sponsored by Chihuly Garden and Glass.
Beccy Feather is a British-born glassmaker who lives and works in Bremerton, WA. Beccy has an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and has consistently pushed to elevate her artwork and invest in the education of the community. She navigates daily between the roles of production flame worker, artist, educator, and tea drinker. Her artwork […]
Co-organized by the Seattle Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams will be the summative career retrospective of one of the most prolific and boundary-breaking artists of our time. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1948, Scott grapples with profound social, historical, racial, economic, and personal […]
Traver Gallery will be featuring works by contestants of Netflix's Blown Away Season 4. This exhibition includes Season 4 Grand Prize winner Morgan Peterson and Challange #3 winners Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen and Gemma Hollister. Sponsored by Chihuly Garden and Glass.
Join Traver Gallery for a Blown Away contestants meet and greet, featuring artists Morgan Peterson, Gemma Hollister, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen as they chat through their own distinctive vision and narrative to the medium of glass. Morgan Peterson will present a series of cameo portraits of Seattle-based drag queens highlighting their ideals of feminine beauty, alongside works […]
Join the Seattle Convention Center for a lunchtime conversation between independent curator and professional art advisor Margery Aronson and internationally recognized Seattle glass artist Cappy Thompson, known for her mytho-poetic narratives on glass using vitreous enamels. This discussion will be followed by a walk-through of Seattle Convention Center’s collection of contemporary glass sculptures made by […]
This dynamic recurring series opens the doors to the museum for a free evening of fun and learning. Everyone is invited to enjoy talks, gallery tours, performances, relaxing music, and delicious cocktails and snacks. This edition takes place at the Seattle Art Museum in downtown Seattle and will celebrate the exhibition, Joyce J. Scott: Walk […]
Join fellow glass lovers for a live glassblowing demonstration by Seattle artists and "Blown Away" contestants, Morgan Peterson + Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen.
Glass collaborations in the Hot Shop! Enjoy a live demonstration by Minhi England and John Sharvin with assistance from their glassy friends. Onsite capacity is first come, first serve. About Minhi England: Utilizing the unique properties of molten glass, Minhi personifies the material and imbues a sense of self. Her current artistic practice explores transformative […]
Traver Gallery will be featuring works by contestants of Netflix's Blown Away Season 4. This exhibition includes Season 4 Grand Prize winner Morgan Peterson and Challange #3 winners Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen and Gemma Hollister. Sponsored by Chihuly Garden and Glass.
Beccy Feather is a British-born glassmaker who lives and works in Bremerton, WA. Beccy has an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and has consistently pushed to elevate her artwork and invest in the education of the community. She navigates daily between the roles of production flame worker, artist, educator, and tea drinker. Her artwork […]
Co-organized by the Seattle Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams will be the summative career retrospective of one of the most prolific and boundary-breaking artists of our time. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1948, Scott grapples with profound social, historical, racial, economic, and personal […]
Karen Seymour finds that working with glass allows her to give functional form to the light and color she finds in nature. She created her first stained glass table in 1998 and then all her friends wanted one too. She has been teaching the process for over 20 years and has written a couple of […]
Carol Milne knits glass. Although she'd like to say she knits with molten glass, alas, her work is cast, using the lost wax casting process. The process involves wax working (knitting and soldering), mold making using plaster and refractories, a kiln, dental tools, and cold working. Check out her YouTube channel for a preview of […]
Please join artist Kait Rhoads at METHOD Gallery where she will discuss Proto Kelp, her immersive and participatory glass installation 2-3pm and Closing Reception 3-4pm. In this new ambitious work, Kait evokes the experience of swimming through a glass kelp forest. The installation will be an abstraction of kelp in form and color. Her sculpture […]
The flameworking artist Eunsuh Choi will show flameworking demonstration at Pratt Flame shop. The Flame shop will be open for in-person observers.
Beccy Feather is a British-born glassmaker who lives and works in Bremerton, WA. Beccy has an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and has consistently pushed to elevate her artwork and invest in the education of the community. She navigates daily between the roles of production flame worker, artist, educator, and tea drinker. Her artwork […]
Co-organized by the Seattle Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams will be the summative career retrospective of one of the most prolific and boundary-breaking artists of our time. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1948, Scott grapples with profound social, historical, racial, economic, and personal […]
The artist welcomes you to her home and studio in West Seattle. Have a look around at her vessels, sculpture and limited-edition jewelry. Kait Rhoads is a sculptor that works with fiber and glass. Her foundation is Italian glassworking and patterning, but her sculpture focuses mainly on growth systems in nature. You can see her […]
Misoda Glass is a small, private run glass studio in West Seattle. Melissa creates colorful, one of a kind vessels and welded steel and glass wall sculptures.
Located in Seattle’s first artist-owned live/work co-op, Cappy’s studio is full of her art, folk art, and the art of friends. She has been painting on glass for more than 40 years--first focusing on stained glass, then vessel forms, followed by large public art installations and currently reverse-glass wall paintings. Her work is narrative, inspired […]
Inna Peck is a multidisciplinary artist with a passion for creating decorative objects as well as fine art. Her work can be as small as a pair of earrings or an immersive installation that takes time to wander and take in. Her current work explores ideas about her Ukrainian heritage, cultural erasure and what it […]
Dave and KCJ work together often in glass and teaching and live and work in the historic Bemis Building in downtown Seattle. To learn more about KCJ and Dave, please see below: www.kcjszwedzinski.com www.davidwaltersglass.com
Nancy Callan: Forces at Play celebrates the thoughtfulness, wit, and sense of wonder that are signatures of Callan’s work and invites viewers to see the medium of glass with the same curiosity and passion that have fueled Callan’s artistic career.
Refract is the nation’s newest festival showcasing creative uses of glass in the Pacific Northwest. Hosted by Chihuly Garden and Glass in partnership with Visit Seattle, this event brings together art organizations and artists alike to showcase what makes our glass community so special.
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