Spring 2021 Newsletter
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Pulling Together

How does our glass community pull itself together to put the interesting times of the past year truly in the past?
  • Share your new creations in a Facebook group or virtual show. 
  • Attend art shows (see "Events" below).
  • Buy that special piece you've had your eye on (after all a "stimulus check" is to get the money out into the economy).
  • Share your skills by teaching a class: Zoom is pretty easy, I'll be glad to walk you through how to set it up. Even after we're comfortable in being in the same room with our students, hybrid classes will be common.
  • Volunteer to nurture art in whatever way you can: even someone who thinks they have no creative skill can help children make a glass mosaic table or help post events on the new Guild website.

The Pacific NW Glass Guild has launched its new website.

There is a new glass community resource I've been helping get off the ground. Visit the new  https://www.pnwglassguild.org/ and see for yourself.
  • Subscribe to the free nearly monthly newsletter and maybe even the Weekly Public News for event reminders
  • Attend the monthly meetings on a wide variety of topics via Zoom. Everyone is welcome.
  • Look through the Members' Gallery to find that artist you meant to buy from last year.
  • Learn about glass on the glass arts page and through the education videos
  • Fill out the "Classified" form to ask the members who does a particular type of custom work or a special class or find a buyer for a used kiln or whatever.
  • If you join the guild ($45/ year) you can submit your glass events to the public calendar so we can all see what's happening throughout the region.
  • Have fun at a member-only "Play Day" via Zoom and take advantage of the many more member benefits.
ArtInBloomSeattle.com Garden Art & Studio, er, Yard and Open Garage Tour

April 24-25, 10am to 5pm, will be our 7th annual spring garden art focused tour. 25 artists fill 8 locations. Media range from glass to metal to ceramics and stone. See how even lichen can be used to create art. Wear your mask, use the hand-sanitizer provided, and follow the one-way flow.

Fill out the drawing form at each site for a chance to win a piece of art by the artists at that site. All the artists are looking forward to seeing you and talk about their work in person again.

Map and artist info at ArtInBloomSeattle.com
And we call your attention to two virtual shows which start later this month. Shop from the comfort of your computer screen:
Gathering of the Guilds April 30-May 2. About 40 glass artists and about as many from each of several other Guilds in the Portland area show off their talents. All sales and arrangements are directly through the artist's website or whatever contact mode the artist gives you.
Best of the Northwest April 22-May 10 has about 90 artists from all over the area. The Seattle area NW Art Alliance handles the payments and facilitates the process.
 NEXT ISSUE: I'll be helping write the Pacific NW Glass Guild newsletter: subscribe (free) or join ($45/yr)
Karen Seymour, Editor

What's New? 

Andi Ficker has been assembling a flock of Boppity Birds. You can see them in-person at site #2 on our April 24-25 ArtInBloom.com garden art tour
Summer Blues Vase by David Smith of Blowing Sands. He and several other glass artists will be participating in the virtual Best of the NW April 22 to May 10 
Flowers by Bridget Culligan who will be at site #1 at our April 24-25 ArtInBloom.com garden art tour in person and also as a member of the PNW Glass Guild's virtual Glass Gallery in the Gathering of the Guilds April 30-May2

How'd They Do That?

Here's the video of my tack-fusing talk answering some of the questions I posed in the last issue. At PNWGlassGuild.org there's a link to this and lots of other educational videos. https://www.pnwglassguild.org/education
Some of the videos, like my Fossil Vitria Play Day require you to be a member to see them. At $45, the annual membership fee is cheaper than even 1 average-priced glass class. The Guild depends on your dues to pay for the website and its efforts to nurture glass throughout the region.

We hope to have members-only Play Days nearly every month. Even if you don't attend the Play Day itself there will be more and more videos on the website. You can even volunteer to lead a Play Day if you have a technique you want to explore with others.

 Announcements & Events

Looking for other glass folks?
  • Pacific NW Glass Guild (former Oregon Glass Guild) meets nearly monthly; they also have a newsletter
  • The Whidbey Island Glass Guild holds periodic gatherings and sponsors events: contact Gina Mitchel: 1shopcat (usual symbol) gmail.com
  • Seattle Glass etc. Sunday Brunch potluck every few months: contact Karen Seymour to get on the email list, next meeting is whenever we've all had the vaccine.
Arts Organizations are still figuring out what they are going to do so verify info by going to the website before attending in-person.
April
24-25 Art In Bloom Seattle's Garden Art & Studio Tour, Seattle WA, in person, with masks etc.
           (say hello to Karen Seymour, your FriendsInGlass.org editor, at site #2)
30- May 2 virtual  Gathering of the Guilds, (including the Pacific NW Glass Guild), Portland OR 
22- May 10 virtual    Best of the NW, Seattle WA
May
1-2  virtual     Gathering of the Guilds, (including the Pacific NW Glass Guild), Portland OR 
1-10 virtual    Best of the NW, Seattle WA
TBD?  Pilchuck Spring Tours, Stanwood WA
June
11-13?   Sorticulture, Everett WA
25-27? Camano Island Studio Tour, Camano Island WA
July
?  Bullseye Resource Center, Portland OR, summer sale
8-18 virtual   Wedgewood Arts Festival, Seattle WA
16-18?  Salem Art Fair and Festival, Salem, OR
TBD     Museum of Glass' Glass Fest Northwest, Tacoma WA
21- Aug 4 virtual BAM Arts Festival, Bellevue WA
August 
July 30-Aug 1    Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes WA
July 21- Aug 4 virtual BAM Arts Festival, Bellevue WA
21-22?  Fresh Paint, Everett WA
21-23? Art In the High Desert, Bend OR
22-23? Whidbey Working Artists Summer Studio Tour, Whidbey Island WA
27-29?  Edmonds Art Festival Edmonds WA
29-30 Arts In The Garden, Bellevue WA
Your favorite glassy event isn't here? Send us a note or post it to our moderated Facebook page.
We've simplified the Classes/Resources page. If you offer classes (or want to help someone who does) please see if I have you listed/linked correctly. If you have a specific class coming up please post it to our moderated Facebook page.
FriendsInGlass (you know the symbol) mindspring.com or (206) 525-1577
Thanks!
Karen Seymour
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