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The Visiting Artist Program
The Museum’s Visiting Artist Program hosts internationally-known and emerging artists in our world-class Hot Shop to create new works in glass with our professional team of artists. Offering a diverse mixture of culture, style, focus and expertise, 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. Residencies range in length from single day visits—including every Friday for our Hot Lunch Program—to multiple weeks. A selection of the works created by our Visiting Artists are displayed on a rotating basis in the Made at the Museum exhibition.
Each summer we present the Visiting Artist Summer Series, a partnership with Pilchuck Glass School, which brings an artist each week from mid-June through Labor Day weekend. Many of our Visiting Artists present a Conversation with the Artist lecture and slide presentation on the final day of their residency. Check our event calendar for specific dates and times.
The Museum also invites artists with a minimum of five years of experience working with glass to apply for Application Residencies. Find out how »
Get the lastest information about our Visiting Artists on the MOG Blog.
Upcoming Visiting Artists
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June 9 – 13
KEKE CRIBBS, Freeland, WA
Kéké Cribbs is best known for her glass and mixed media sculpture. Since 1995, she has been developing different methods of painting on hot glass, including using vitreous fired enamels and fusing colored glass. During this residency, she plans to continue experimenting with these “hot printing” techniques, pursuing the sculptural and painting qualities of glass as a material.
Conversation with the Artist: June 13, 2 pm
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June 16 – 20
DAVIDE SALVADORE, Murano, Italy
Davide Salvadore was born into a family of glassmakers in Murano, Italy and is a master of traditional
Venetian glass working. He founded and manages his own studio, Campagnol e Salvadore, where he mixes his lampworking and glassmaking skills in inventive ways to create a distinctive and expressive body of work. He is a founding member of Centro Studio Vetro, an organization devoted to promoting Murano’s glass art. An exhibition of his work will be on view at Tacoma’s William Traver Gallery, located adjacent to the Museum, June 12 – July 3, 2010.Conversation with the Artist: June 20, 2 pm
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June 23 – 27
LYNDA BENGLIS, New York, NY
Lynda Benglis is a pioneer of the Post-Minimalist movement of the 1960s and is perhaps best known for
her poured sculptures, including her translation of Jackson Pollock’s drip technique into sculptural
forms. Over her notable career, she has worked with myriad materials—from plastic, wax and
polyurethane to ceramics, bronze and video—creating works that portray her interest in themes of body
and gender. A 40-year retrospective exhibition organized by the Irish Museum of Modern Art is
currently traveling and will open at the Rhode Island School of Design this fall.During her residency, Benglis will utilize African masks as canvases for applications of glass using with her own unique aesthetic sensibility.
Conversation with the Artist: June 27, 2 pm
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June 30 – July 4
RÓISÍN de BUITLÉAR, Dublin, Ireland
Róisín de Buitléar has worked with glass for almost thirty years, drawing inspiration from her Irish cultural heritage. She taught at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin for two decades and is a co-founder of the Glass Society of Ireland. She currently teaches internationally while writing and lecturing about contemporary Irish glass.
Conversation with the Artist: July 4, 2 pm
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July 7 – 11
MARVIN OLIVER, Seattle, WA and
RICHARD ROYAL, Seattle, WAMarvin Oliver is one of the Northwest’s foremost contemporary sculptors and printmakers, specializing in Native American contemporary fine art. Throughout his 40-year career, he has worked in a variety of media including cedar, bronze, steel and glass. Oliver is Professor of American Indian Studies and Art at the University of Washington, and serves as Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Native American Art at the Burke Museum.
Richard Royal has been an integral part of the Studio Glass movement for more than three decades. He was the first artist-in-residence at the Waterford Crystal Factory in Waterford, Ireland in 1998 and has been a visiting artist at many universities throughout the United States. He is recognized as one of the most skilled and talented master glassblowers in the United States.
Conversation with the Artists: July 11, 2 pm
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July 14 – 18
RICHARD CRAIG MEITNER, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Richard Craig Meitner’s work is known for its unique juxtapositions of glass forms embellished with rust, enamel, bronze, tile, paint and print. He is inspired by a range of diverse influences including Italian painting, Japanese textiles, German Expressionism, science and nature.
During his residency, Meitner will explore techniques melding pre-made, flame-worked Pyrex forms with furnace glass. His work will also incorporate painting onto the glass surfaces using an organic lacquer. This residency is presented in conjunction with Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Craig Meitner, an exhibition that opens in the Museum’s gallery on July 17, 2010.
Conversation with the Artist: July 18, 2 pm
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July 21 – 25
MICHAEL SHERRILL,
Hendersonville, NCMichael Sherrill is primarily a self-taught artist, influenced by the folk pottery tradition of his native North Carolina. In 1995, he designed Mudtools®, a line of tools for potters and sculptors. Inspired by the natural world, Sherrill’s sculpture combines porcelain, bronze and glass with the intent of creating “something that might bring the observer to [a] place of wonder.”
During his residency at Museum of Glass, Sherrill will create glass components for a bronze and glass sculpture.
Conversation with the Artist: July 25, 2 pm
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July 28 – August 1
PAVEL MRKUS,
Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
Pavel Mrkus studied glass at Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design. In collaboration with Daniel Hanzlik, he founded BOOT audiovisual, a group dedicated to live digital performances and video projects for public spaces. He also heads the newly established time-based media program at Jan Evangelista PurkynÐ University in Prague. Mrkus has taught at Toyama City Institute of Glass Art in Japan and at the Rhode Island School of Design.
At the Museum of Glass, Mrkus plans to record natural audio and video in the Hot Shop, processing the footage to create a unique sound and image composition. The finished glass pieces he creates will become instruments for other performances.
Conversation with the Artist: August 1, 2 pm
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August 4 – 8
MICHELE KONG,
Long Island City, NYMichele Kong is an installation artist who has pursued an eclectic array of media, from cork bark, wood, stainless steel and coconut fiber, to hot glue. She describes her work as “reminiscent of delicately woven spiders’ webs, evaporating moisture, and intricate lacework magnified to an architectural scale.” Kong has traveled extensively and portrays diverse cultural references in her sculptures, drawing, and site-specific installations. She recently completed a series of narrative videos which embody the feelings and characters of her sculptural elements.
During her residency, Kong aspires to create mirrored glass components for a future site-specific installation.
Conversation with the Artist: August 8, 2 pm
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August 11 – 15
KARI RUSSELL-POOL, Essex, CT
Kari Russell-Pool considers herself primarily a flame-worker. Her work is inspired by her roles of being a wife and mother and she strives to create pieces that are colorful, beautiful and narrative in nature. She and her husband, glassblower Marc Petrovic, work together in their home studio, sometimes collaborating but each retaining their own personal style. Russell-Pool makes the glass rods for her flame working from the same glass furnace that Petrovic uses for his blown sculptures. “This glass does not take the stress of the torch work well but does allow a greater range of color variations, and the unique ability to be fused with furnace blown components.”
Conversation with the Artist: August 15, 2 pm
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August 18 – 22
BRYNHILDUR THORGEIRSDÓTTIR, Reykajavik, Iceland
Brynhildur Thorgeirsdóttir was born and raised in Iceland. She is known for her use of concrete, glass and metal. She favors stylized, provactive forms over natural ones, creating objects which she descibes as “rising like cliffs or mountains from their surroundings.” Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Iceland, Finland, Japan, Sweden and the United States.
Conversation with the Artist: August 22, 2 pm
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August 25 – 29
ED ARCHIE NOISECAT, Santa Fe, NM
Ed Archie NoiseCat is a sculptor, jeweler and graphic artist. His work is influenced from the stories of
his Shuswap and Stlitlimx ancestors. NoiseCat’s aim is to honor and communicate aboriginal values
within his art, building upon both the ancient and contemporary Northwest Coastal Native Americans’
tradition of great carvers.Conversation with the Artist: August 29, 2 pm
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September 1 – 5
RON DESMETT, Oakdale, PA
Ron Desmett has been working with glass for over three decades. Although he once focused on
functional glass vessels such as goblets and bowls, for the last few years his work has been inspired by
nature’s landscape. Desmett says his use of hollowed out walnut trees as glass molds allows him to
“infuse nature that has lost its life with life anew.”During his residency, Desmett will continue his exploration of utilizing a process that includes wooden molds.
Conversation with the Artist: September 5, 2 pm
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