2009 Dawn Quinn of Tacoma Weekly:
"For the Museum of Glass’ (MOG) seventh annual Visiting Artist Summer Series, a new artist will present artwork in the Hot Shop, where glass is blown live in front of an audience, every week through August 30.
Visitors will be able to have a unique view of these artists’ take on glass. The artists have worked in a multitude of varying mediums.
According to Susan Newsom, communications manager for MOG, the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood is the initial draw for these artists that inevitably show at the museum during the series.
“Pilchuck brings in artists from around the world and country for their programs. We work with them to find out who they are bringing, and then ask certain artists to come exhibit,” Newsom said.
Melissa Post, curator for MOG, says that this series is an opportunity for both the museum and artists.
“We’re offering them (artists) an opportunity to come into the Hot Shop and explore new possibilities. (The program) has grown over the years, and it has expanded and re-shaped the way people look at glass.”
Attendance at this series every summer has included a varied mix of people coming to the museum for different reasons.
“It’s a good mix. The audience in summer tends to be lots of people from out of town. Locals who follow the series and want to know who’s coming also attend it,” Newsom said.
MOG hopes the same kind of interest is generated during this summer’s offering of artists.
One highlight for the show is artist Joe David, who will be exhibiting during the week of July 22-26. According to MOG’s press for the show, “David is recognized as one of the leading contemporary Northwest Coast Native artists. He is a member of the Nootka Tribe, the indigenous people of the west coast of Vancouver Island. He was born in the Clayoquot village of Opitsat on Vancouver Island and grew up in Seattle.”
David’s preference for art switched to Native art after he attended art school in the late 1960s and worked as a commercial artist. David is a woodcarver and is known for his work as a printer, jewelry maker and mask maker.
David has also been an instrumental inspiration and mentor to artist Preston Singletary, who will be exhibiting at the MOG beginning July 11 with his show, “Echoes, Fire and Shadows.” Singletary affirms that David helped him “develop a spiritual connection in a Native context.”
Artist Shelley Allen will also be an intriguing visiting artist, as she primarily works in oil painting. “Allen paints horses with oils. She makes beautiful pieces. She’s Canadian, and comes from a family of horse breeders,” Newsom stated.
The MOG Visiting Hot Shop Artists Summer Series will feature artists exhibiting Wednesday-Sunday for their five-day work residencies every week, and a “Conversation with the Artist” event, including a public lecture and slide presentation, at 2 p.m. on Sundays.
Glass fans and visitors to the museum can also track all of the artists participating in the Summer Series and their work from the MOG website during museum hours. Streaming video footage live from the Hot Shop Amphitheater, MOG gives attendants extra time with the artists, including sneak previews before and after the artist demonstrations. Each artist will also record an introduction to his or her work that will be posted on the MOG website every Wednesday throughout the series.
The Visiting Artist Summer Series is going on now through August 30 at MOG, located at 1801 Dock St. Museum hours are Wednesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Third Thursdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday 12-5 p.m. Admission is free for members, $10 general, $8 seniors, military and students (13 and older with ID), $8 groups of 10 or more, $4 children (6-12 years old), children under 6 are free. Admission is free every Third Thursday of the month from 5-8 p.m. For more information about the Summer Series, the Hot Shop, the visiting artists or MOG, call (253) 284-4750 or visit http://www.museumofglass.org."
Quinn, D. "Glass Exposure: Museum of Glass unveils seventh annual Visiting Artist Summer Series." Tacoma Weekly. June 25, 2009. Website accessed June 25, 2009. http://www.tacomaweekly.com/article/3261
From the Tacoma Museum of Glass website:
"2009 Visiting Artist Summer Series
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June 17 – 21
RIK ALLEN, Sedro-Woolley, WA
Rik Allen’s current series of work has been in the form of spacecraft and scientific devices. While many of Allen’s pieces reflect his curiosity about science, they also convey humor, simple narratives, lightheartedness and an antiquated vision of the future that much of science fiction embodies.
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Conversation with the Artist: June 21, 2 pm -
June 24 – 28
BENJAMIN WRIGHT, Providence, RI
Benjamin Wright holds a BS in Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth Collegeas well as an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He combines both of these disciplines in his work. At MOG, he plans to create “large-scale blown environnments which will be inhabited by various communities of insects, plants, molds, bacteria, etc.”
Conversation with the Artist: June 28, 2 pm -
July 1 – 5
LISA ZERKOWITZ, Seattle, WA
Lisa Zerkowitz is inspired by nature and combines the use of blown and cast glass with steel, ink and bronze. “The steel panels are my canvas, where the landscape begins to take form from a simple line. The glass and bronze elements provide a layering that is akin to the organics of nature. Most importantly, the glass is the light, bringing the viewer to a specific moment in time when light and nature combined are a language of their own.”
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Conversation with the Artist: July 5, 2 pm -
July 8 – 12
STEPHEN DAY, New Orleans, LA
Stephen Day is based in New Orleans and exhibits and teaches nationally and internationally. He likes to work thematically, infusing his interest in opera and theater. He often restricts or frames the viewer’s perspective by presenting historical images and artifacts in a manner that creates an ironic, problematic or unverifiable relationship to what really happened.
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July 15 – 19
PETER SHELTON, Los Angeles, CA
Based in Southern California, Peter Shelton is a conceptual sculptor. He is best known internationally for his iron, steel and fiberglass sculptures, which often replicate abstracted parts of the human body as well as elements of architecture. “I’d say my work is somewhere between abstract and recognizable. The main thing is to convey a sense of something animated.”
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Conversation with the Artist: July 19, 2 pm -
July 22 – 26
JOE DAVID, Vancouver, BC
Joe David is recognized as one of the leading contemporary Northwest Coast native artists. He is a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth (or Nootka) tribe, the indigenous people of the west coast of Vancouver Island, and has been instrumental in the resurgence of Nookta art and ceremony. His art reflects a deep commitment to spirituality and cultural heritage. This residency is presented in conjunction with Singletary’s exhibition, Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows.
Conversation with the Artist: July 26, 2 pm -
July 29 – August 2
RICHARD WHITELEY, New So. Wales, AUS
Richard Whiteley is the head of the prestigious Glass Workshop at the School of Art, Australian National University in Canberra. He has dedicated his studio practice to cast glass, having spent many years developing his techniques. During his Hot Shop residency, Whiteley will demonstrate techniques he uses to cold work (sandblast, engrave, cut, grind and polish) his glass works.
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Conversation with the Artist: August 2, 2 pm -
August 5 – 9
SHELLEY MUZYLOWSKI ALLEN,
Sedro-Woolley, WAMyth, magic and a touch of whimsy inform the work of Shelley Muzylowski Allen, whose oil paintings and glass sculptures serve as meditation on the enduring relationship between humans and beasts of burden. A Canadian native from a family of horse breeders, Allen captures the animals’ essence through color, form and scale. She often uses both mediums of glass an painting in her work.
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Conversation with the Artist: August 9, 2 pm -
August 12 – 16
RICHARD NOTKIN, Helena, MT
Richard Notkin is a full-time studio artist who has worked primarily with ceramics for nearly forty years. He is perhaps best known for his series of unglazed stoneware teapots, inspired by the Yixing wares of China (circa 1500 AD to present), but consciously maintaining a separate cultural identity. While in the Hot Shop, Notkin plans to “continue my bent for strong social/political commentary which would best be actualized in the transparent medium of glass.”
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Conversation with the Artist: August 16, 2 pm -
August 19 – 23
TOM ROWNEY, Ainslie, AUS
Tom Rowney uses traditional Venetian-style glass techniques with a contemporary viewpoint to create his art. Since 1997, Rowney has developed two major series, Map Series and Maelstrom. “The Maelstrom series is based on the fluid nature of blowing molten glass and the relationship to the visual "water like qualities" of the solid state of blown glass. Each form has its own memory of liquid water—a drip, a drop, a splash—and the elastic forms the water becomes.”
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Conversation with the Artist: August 23, 2 pm -
August 26 – 30
JACKIE PANCARI, Andover, NY
Jackie Pancari’s work represents a series of discoveries made while working with the properties of glass and light. “Glass speaks clearly about light. It seems so simple yet its ability to assume an infinite number of forms and to evoke just as many feelings, renders it complex. My greatest hope is that those who see my work walk away with a sense of wonder, mystery and the same inquisitiveness that I experienced in its creation.”
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Conversation with the Artist: August 30, 2 pm"
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