Mark Zirpel is an assistant professor and the first holder of the Dale Chihuly Endowed Chair in Glass at the University of Washington.  A mixed media and glass artist, Zirpel earned a BFA in drawing from the University of Alaska and an MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute.  Zirpel explores the phenomena of time in his sculptures.

                                Janice Peacock is a flame-worker who creates small sculptures and beads using Venetian techniques she learned from Italian glass masters Lucio Bubacco and Vittorio Costantini.  During this residency, Peacock will experiment with variations in scale by creating pairs of masks consisting of small flame-worked versions that she will make and larger versions created by the Hot Shop Team under her direction. 

Museum of Glass Calendar Highlights for September, 2011 All events are included with admission to the Museum unless otherwise noted. Calendar listings are subject to change. For updated information, please visit our website at www.museumofglass.org or call the information line at 253.284.4750 or 1.866.4MUSEUM. SUMMER HOURS (END TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6): Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Third Thursdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Open Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day and Tuesday after Labor Day Closed July 30, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day FALL-WINTER-SPRING HOURS (Begin Wednesday, September 7) Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Third Thursdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays (Museum Store open Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day Public Programs NPR's StoryCorps on the Museum Plaza September 8 - 30 Northwest Public Radio (www.nwpr.org <http://www.nwpr.org/> ) is hosting NPR's StoryCorps, a program that provides Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, preserve, and share their stories. The mobile recording studio (housed in an Airstream trailer) will be staged on the Museum's Main Plaza. More information about StoryCorps: www.storycorps.org/about Family Day: Summer Blast Off Saturday, September 10 1 - 4 p.m. Local artist Jennifer Adams will lead visitors in creating space shuttles using recycled materials. Sponsored by City of Tacoma Arts Commission Third Thursday ArtWalk Thursday, September 15 Free admission 5 - 8 p.m. The StoryCorps MobileBooth will be open for tours and YMCA instructors will lead Zumba classes on the plaza Sponsored by City of Tacoma Arts Commission and Columbia Bank Hot Shop Feel the heat as you watch art come alive! Every day, artists demonstrate the intriguing process of creating works of art from molten glass on the amphitheater stage, giving visitors a birds-eye view of their activities. Expert commentary and a state-of-the-art audiovisual system enhance the experience by providing insight into the glassblowing process as well as the science, culture and historical aspects of glass. Hot Shop Visiting Artist Program Sponsored by City of Tacoma Arts Commission, Windgate Charitable Foundation, Corning Incorporated Foundation, Courtyard by Marriott/Tacoma Downtown and Herb and Paula Simon Watch contemporary glass history in the making! From emerging to internationally renowned, Visiting Artists come to the Hot Shop to create new glass works in collaboration with the Museum's Hot Shop Team. This program offers Museum visitors a unique opportunity to view the diverse creative processes of glass masters who do not regularly work in venues open for public observation. During the summer, the Museum presents the Visiting Artist Summer Series (VASS) which presents a different artist each week. Many of these artists come from around the world in conjunction with their artist residencies at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA. VASS Week 13 Jeffrey Mongrain, New York, NY, and Nicholas Kripal, Philadelphia, PA, August 31 - with James Mongrain, Mukilteo, WA September 4 During this residency, Jeffrey Mongrain, sculptor and professor of art at Hunter College, will team up with Nicholas Kripal, professor of ceramics at the Tyler School of Art, to create a new body of work. Each artist creates site-specific works that explore spirituality and the scared in place. Jeffrey's brother and leader in the field of blown glass in the Pacific Northwest, James Mongrain, will work as the gaffer for this collaboration. September 14 - 18 Mark Zirpel, Seattle, WA Mark Zirpel is an assistant professor and the first holder of the Dale Chihuly Endowed Chair in Glass at the University of Washington. A mixed media and glass artist, Zirpel earned a BFA in drawing from the University of Alaska and an MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. Zirpel explores the phenomena of time in his sculptures. September 21 - 25 Janice Peacock, San Francisco, CA Janice Peacock is a flame-worker who creates small sculptures and beads using Venetian techniques she learned from Italian glass masters Lucio Bubacco and Vittorio Costantini. During this residency, Peacock will experiment with variations in scale by creating pairs of masks consisting of small flame-worked versions that she will make and larger versions created by the Hot Shop Team under her direction. September 28 - Ingalena Klenell, Sunne, Sweden October 2 Ingalena Klenell studied glassblowing at Orrefors. Intrigued by the material but unsatisfied by the strictures of glass tradition, she invented her own kiln-forming technique. Her interests in feminism, consumerism, United States history and the wilderness debate are evident in Glimmering Gone, an exhibition of work from her collaboration with Beth Lipman, currently on display at the Museum. Hot Lunch Fridays, 12 - 1 p.m. Celebrate Friday at the Museum of Glass! Enjoy a box lunch from Gallucci's Glass Café while watching a featured or visiting artist at work in the Hot Shop. Cost: $12 per person plus Museum admission. Please call 253.572.9593 or email ron@galluccis.com to order your lunch by 3 p.m. Thursday. For more information, visit www.museumofglass.org <http://www.museumofglass.org/> . Hands-on Glass Experiences Education Studio Weekdays 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.; Saturdays 12 - 4 p.m.; Sundays 1 - 4 p.m. The Education Studio is an interactive, experiential learning space that provides visitors with creative opportunities for hands-on engagement with the ideas behind the glass. Activities are designed to engage all visitors, from toddlers to senior citizens. Each month a new hands-on art activity is presented that relates to a particular exhibition or Hot Shop application. Make Your Own Glass: Glass Fusing Workshops Saturdays, 11 am - 4 pm; Sundays, 1 - 5 pm Using colorful glass shards, stringers and frit, visitors can create a one-of-a-kind glass tile that can be used for a coaster. Workshops start on the hour (45 minute duration); last session begins at 3 pm on Saturdays, 4 pm on Sundays. Cost: $38 / $32 members (price does not include Museum admission). Suitable for ages 6 to adult Reservations: 253.284.4719. Make Your Own Glass: Bead Making Workshop Weekdays, 12 - 4 pm Flame-worker Keiko and friends lead participants in the art of a unique glass bead with glass rods and a torch. Workshops begin at the bottom of the hour; last session begins at 3:30 pm (45 minute duration). Cost: $38 / $32 members (includes all material costs, instruction and shipping; does not include Museum admission). Suitable for ages 12 to adult. Reservations: 253.284.4719. Kids Design Glass Sponsored by Key Foundation, a foundation funded by KeyBank, and the Muckleshoot Charity Fund Ongoing Children under the age of 12 Our Kids Design Glass program invites children 12 and under who visit the Museum or are patients at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital to design a glass sculpture. Each month, one entry is selected by the MOG Hot Shop team. Two sculptures are created-one for the child designer and one for the Museum's Permanent Collection. A selection of Kids Design Glass creatures is currently on display in the Leonard and Norma Klorfine Gallery and Art Alley. Lectures Conversations with the Artists Sponsored by PONCHO Sundays at 2 p.m. in the Hot Shop September 4 Jeffrey Mongrain and Nicholas Kripal September 18 Mark Zirpel September 25 Janice Peacock Theater Documentaries Every day, visitors can view original documentary films to expand their understanding of the artwork in the galleries, gain insight into the artistic process of a particular artist, or review the techniques and history of glassmaking. Films repeat throughout the day. Ongoing Exhibitions Glimmering Gone: Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman Organized by Museum of Glass Sponsored by Russell Investments, the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation, Linda & Gerry Nordberg, the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, and KUOW Public Radio Through March 11, 2012 Glimmering Gone is an exhibition conceived and created by American artist Beth Lipman and Swedish artist Ingalena Klenell that comprises three large-scale installations of colorless and white glass-Landscape, Mementos and Artifacts. Experiential and interrelated, the artwork was produced by the artists individually in their home studios and collaboratively during a two-week Hot Shop residency at the Museum of Glass in January, 2010. The installations present a metaphor for material culture, landscape and life. Parenthetically Speaking: It's Only a Figure of Speech Organized by Museum of Glass, Mildred Howard and Gallery Paule Anglim Through April 29, 2012 Parenthetically Speaking: It's Only a Figure of Speech is a new collection of work by San Francisco-based artist Mildred Howard comprising more than 40 glass punctuation marks, proofreading symbols and musical notes. The work is inspired by At the End, a poem by Howard's friend and Peabody Award-winner Quincy Troupe. Both the poem and the exhibition reference punctuation as a metaphor for the passage of time. Transformation: Art Changes a City Organized by Peter Serko and Museum of Glass August 7, 2011 - January 8, 2012 Photographer and downtown Tacoma resident Peter Serko has been capturing the many moods of the Museum of Glass since 2006. In this exhibition, Serko presents a selection of his photographs of both the Museum architecture and the Chihuly Bridge of Glass taken during different times of day throughout the seasons. In conjunction with the exhibition, Serko invites community members to submit their best MOG photographs, a selection of which will be included in a video montage displayed alongside his prints. Fertile Ground: Recent Masterworks from the Visiting Artist Residency Program Organized by Museum of Glass Through October 16, 2011 The Museum of Glass Hot Shop serves as an incubator for ideas for a multigenerational community of glassblowers. Fertile Ground showcases 32 works made by artists from around the world with the expert assistance of the Museum's Hot Shop Team. The exhibition documents the artistry and craftsmanship, focused determination and physical stamina, camaraderie and shared commitment of the artists as they created these masterful works. Kids Design Glass Organized by Museum of Glass Sponsored by Russell Investments, Key Bank/Key Foundation, Muckleshoot Charity Fund, Dale Chihuly and Leslie Jackson Chihuly, Carl and Jan Fisher, Janet and Mike Halvorson, Leonard and Norma Klorfine Foundation, Randall and Joyce Lert, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Weyerhaeuser, Sr., The News Tribune and Click! Cable TV Through October 31, 2011 Kids Design Glass celebrates the imagination of children with 52 glass sculptures designed by kids and crafted by professional artists in the Museum of Glass Hot Shop. The Kids Design Glass education program, from which these creations originated, illustrates the symbiotic relationship between designer and glassblower. A child draws a design-generally a fantastical creature-names it, and writes a brief explanation or story. The Museum's Hot Shop Team selects one design each month and transforms the two-dimensional drawing into a three-dimensional sculpture. As the designer, the child directs the artists as they make two sculptures-one for the child to take home and one for the Museum's Permanent Collection. The children's drawings and artist statements are displayed alongside each piece. Made at the Museum: The Visiting Artist Collection Organized by Museum of Glass Ongoing The Visiting Artist Program brings artists from the region and around the world to the Museum of Glass to work with the Hot Shop team to explore, invent and create with glass. After each residency the Museum and the artist select one work of art to be included in the Permanent Collection. These objects are rotated on and off display throughout the year as new works are created. Martin Blank (American, born 1962) Fluent Steps, 2009 Hot-sculpted glass, steel Museum of Glass Permanent Collection Main Plaza Reflecting Pool Martin Blank's Fluent Steps captures the essence of water. Fluent Steps spans the entire length of the 210-foot-long Main Plaza reflecting pool and rises from water level to fifteen feet in height. It consists of 754 individually hand-sculpted pieces of glass, most created in the Museum's Hot Shop during Blank's 45-day Visiting Artist residency in 2008. These forms are arranged into several islands that capture the fluidity, light, motion and transparency of water in clear glass. The Museum of Glass provides a dynamic learning environment to appreciate the medium of glass through creative experiences, collections and exhibitions. In addition to the Hot Shop Amphitheater where visitors can watch artists work, the facilities include galleries, outdoor exhibition areas, a theater, hands-on art studio, grand hall, café and store. Museum of Glass is sponsored in part by Ben B. Cheney Foundation, The Boeing Company Charitable Foundation, City of Tacoma Arts Commission, Arts Fund, Forest Foundation, and Sequoia Foundation. Hours and Admission Open Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Third Thursdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Store is also open Tuesdays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Summer hours (Memorial Day through Labor Day): also open Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed July 30, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Admission is free for members, $12 general, $10 seniors, military and students (13+ with ID), $10 groups of 10 or more, $5 children (6-12) years old. Children under 6 are admitted free. Admission is free every third Thursday of the month from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Info Line 253-284-4750/ 1-866-4MUSEUM Museum of Glass, 1801 Dock Street Tacoma, WA 98402 www.museumofglass.org <http://www.museumofglass.org/> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tacoma-WA/Museum-of-Glass/62210295931?ref=sgm> <http://twitter.com/#!/MOGTacoma> <http://www.youtube.com/museumofglass> For more information about Museum of Glass: Susan Newsom, Communications Manager, 253.284.4732, snewsom@museumofglass.org <mailto:jpisto@museumofglass.org> ###