December 20 • 5–9pm • Regular Museum Admission
Join Museum of Glass for a festive holiday evening featuring hands-on workshops and crafts, live glassblowing, and gallery tours! Outside on the Museum’s Grand Plaza, fire pits will be set up to keep everyone toasty while we enjoy the lights of the Tacoma Yacht Club Lighted Boat Parade. Inside the Museum, explore the exhibitions Kids Design Glass: The First Generation and Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature through docent-led tours, watch live glassblowing by Nancy Callan in the Hot Shop and flameworking demos in the Grand Hall, create your own works of art in glass in one of our Glass Tile Workshops or By the Furnace: Hot Shop Experience sessions, and more.
Café Perk will also have extended hours during the Fireside event, so you can cozy up by the fire with a special holiday beverage!
Glass Tile Workshops and By the Furnace: Hot Shop Experience sessions require paid reservations. All other activities are included with general admission. Museum Members receive free admission to this event. Visitors attending the Museum with standard admission during regular daytime hours on December 21 are welcome to stick around for the Fireside Holiday Night event.
Lineup of Activities
Fusing Workshops - Pendants
5:30-9pm
Learn the art of fusing! Working with cold, flat glass sheets and decorative elements, fusing allows you to layer glass pieces together into a design of your own. Create a 2-inch glass pendant by collaging together sheet glass, pasta-like stringers, and powdered glass. Once your design is complete it will be fired in our electric kiln to produce one solid, smooth work of art.
Pricing: $25 per person
By the Furnace: Hot Shop Experience – Ornaments
6-9pm
Here’s your chance to work on the Hot Shop floor! Assisted by Hilltop Artists, you’ll work as the gaffer to create your very own blown glass ornament. Learn how to choose colors, block and shape the glass, and add your own twist to your work of art.
Pricing: $95 per person / $90 for MOG members
Hot Shop Snowman Blow with Visiting Artist Nancy Callan
5-6pm
Watch Visiting Artist Nancy Callan as she creates her iconic Snowman sculptures in the Hot Shop. Callan will be working in the Hot Shop all day so feel free to stop by earlier! After 6pm, the Museum will be screening holiday movies in the Hot Shop.
Holiday Craft Fair
The Museum’s Grand Hall will feature a holiday market featuring local artisans and vendors! Be sure to pick up any last minute gifts before the holidays.
Flameworking Demonstrations
Artist Katelyn Moody of Moody Studio Arts will give live flameworking demonstrations in the Grand Hall, where a selection of her work will be available for sale.
Hands-On Craft: Holiday Scenes
Create a scenic holiday craft with Education Studio Artists Shannon Eakins and Aaron Goodge in the Grand Hall.
Free with general admission.
Docent-Led Exhibition Tours
Explore newly opened exhibitions Kids Design Glass: The First Generation and Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature guided by Museum of Glass docents.
Holiday Shopping Experience
Enjoy a special holiday shopping experience in the Museum Store with expert guidance from Store Manager Shane Gabler.