Visiting Artists
Recent Visiting Artist Residencies
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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 through July and August. Many of our Visiting Artist present a Conversation with the Artist lecture and slide presentation on the final day of their residency. Check our online 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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November 4 – 8
PATRICIA DAVIDSON, Seattle, WA
Patricia Davidson teaches at Tacoma’s Hilltop Artists in Residence Program at Wilson High School. Throughout her career, she has worked with a number of renowned artists, including Pino Signoretto, William Morris and Dale Chihuly. She draws inspiration for her work from the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.
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November 11 – 15
MARCUS AMERMAN, Santa Fe, NM and PRESTON SINGLETARY, Seattle, WA
Marcus Amerman is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and creates works using traditional beadwork techniques infused with his own style of stitching beads into realistic, pictorial images, rather than patterns. Tlingit tribal member Preston Singletary will join him in the Hot Shop to collaborate on new designs.
This residency is presented in conjunction with Singletary’s exhibition, Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows.
Marcus Amerman website »
Preston Singletary website »
Panel Discussion with Marcus Amerman,
Preston Singletary and Joe Feddersen: November 15, 2 pm -
November 18 – 22
JOHN MILLER, Champaign, IL
John Miller pulls from the energy of his glassblowing team and the geographic location of the hot shop, allowing these qualities to influence his work. He is a favorite of our Hot Shop Team and visitors because he brings a great energy and sense of fun to the Hot Shop.
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November 27 – 29
JAMES MONGRAIN, Mukilteo, WA
James Mongrain is known for his technical proficiency of traditional Venetian glassblowing techniques. On Sunday, November 27, he will create an unconventional Kids Design Glass creature.
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December 2 – 6
Ann WÅHLSTRÖM, Stockholm, Sweden
Ann Wåhlström has been working in glass studios in Sweden, Switzerland and the United States since 1982. She was a designer for Kosta Boda from 1986 until 2005. Besides glass, Wåhlström also works with ceramic, metal and textiles.
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December 16 – 20
CORKY CLAIRMONT, Ronan, MT
Corky Clairmont is a celebrated contemporary mixed-media artist who combines his experiences as a Native American and tribal member with a post-modernist view of the realities of life as indigenous people struggle to retain their identities and sovereignty in the 21st century.
Conversation with the Artist: December 20, 2 pm -
