According to Tim Butler, marketing and communications director for the Museum of Glass, the Pacific Northwest has three major cultural exports: coffee, tech and glass.
Thanks to institutions like the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma and artists like Dale Chihuly and Preston Singletary , glass work has become a popular art form throughout the region, one that’s revered beyond the Pacific Northwest.
Singletary’s “ Raven and the Box of Daylight ” is on view at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture through Jan. 4. Giving museum visitors insight into how a glassblower like Singletary works, the Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop will bring two artists and an emcee to the MAC on Saturday for the Art of Glassblowing, a live glassblowing demonstration.
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