What Are You Looking At? — Museum of Glass

Exhibition Overview

For the past 18 years, a unique residency partnership between Pilchuck Glass School and Museum of Glass has presented a diverse group of artists, designers, and crafts people with the opportunity to experiment in glass. By creating material access and putting the unique expertise and craftsmanship of glass specialists in the hands of artists of all backgrounds doors are opened to new avenues of investigation. From conceptual installation and object makers, to the designers of functional furnishing and fantastical fashion accessories, the artists come to their materials with a wide range of intention.

What Are You Looking At? highlights unique experiments and prototypes pursued during artist residencies in the context of each artist’s larger artistic practice. The diversity of creative voices and the collective wonder that they generate exemplifies the objectives of the residency programs at both Pilchuck Glass School and Museum of Glass. Videos made during each residency will also be prominently featured, providing the audience a look into the artists’ intentions and clues to how they will incorporate glass into their conceptual vocabularies.

This exhibition includes works by Vivian Beer, Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Andrea Dezsö, Laura Donefer (with Leah Allison and Jennifer A. Hand), Reilly Donovan, Joe Feddersen, Angelo Filomeno, Jessica Jane Julius, Tobias Klein, Richard Meitner, Tom Moore, Magdelene Odundo, Ginny Ruffner, Joyce Scott, Peter Shelton, Megan Stelljes, and Fred Wilson.