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Studio at Museum of Glass
The "Studio" at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington offers museum patrons an opportunity to create art or to watch others create art. Children, especially, like to utilize this space to show off their talents in drawing and painting.
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The Bathers by Martin Blank
This hot-sculpted glass piece by Martin Blank is currently on view at the entrance to the hot shop at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington. The hot shop is an ampitheater where museum patrons view glass artists in the process of creating glass art.
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Chihuly Chandelier at Union Station, Tacoma
This fanciful chandelier is on loan to the City of Tacoma from Dale Chihuly, its creator. Chihuly loans numerous works for public viewing in his native city, Tacoma, Washington. This piece hangs in the center of the domed Union Station, a former train station and now the lobby to the United States District Court House.
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Persian Forms by Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly, a native of Tacoma, Washington, expanded glass blowing in America to a contemporary art technique and created a new vocabulary of form and color through his innovations. His works are displayed in numerous public and private locations in Tacoma.
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Chihuly Seaforms at Bridge of Glass
Dale Chihuly conceived of a pedestrian bridge from his native city's downtown to the site of the Tacoma Museum of Glass, spanning numerous railroad tracks and an Interstate Highway and reconnecting the city with its waterfront. He loaned the city a large number of his studio glass art works to showcase in the public walkway. These seaforms are in the ceiling of one section of the bridge.
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Chihuly Bridge of Glass
The Chihuly Bridge of Glass connects downtown Tacoma, Washington with the Thea Foss Waterway and the Museum of Glass situated on the waterway. The former railroad passenger station, the copper-domed Union Station to the right, now houses the region's United States Courthouse as well as numerous works of glass by the city's native son, Dale Chihuly.
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Architectural Details, Museum of Glass
Arthur Erickson designed the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington to reflect Tacoma's industrial past and to reside comfortably in a low-rise waterfront environment. The steel cone recalls the wood burners of old sawmills that formerly dotted the local landscape.
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Chihuly Bridge of Glass and Museum of Glass
The Chihuly Bridge of Glass with its towering blue crystal columns carries pedestrians over railroad tracks and a highway to Tacoma's Museum of Glass. The museum's shiny metal cone is the architect's homage to the wood burners that used to dot Tacoma's landscape when it was the center of the Northwest's timber industry.
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Grand Staircase, Museum of Glass
The Grand Staircase at Tacoma's Museum of Glass circles around the museum's iconic slanted metal cone. The cone houses the hot shop and an ampitheater which provides visitors a close up view of world-renowned glass blowers and sculptors in action.
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Roger Ward has been a member since 21 January 2008 and goes by tacomasunset.
Currently in Tacoma, enjoying the mild summer breezes off Puget Sound..
I am a traveler who likes scenic spots, eco-tourism, adventure travel and voluntourism living in Tacoma, Washington, where Mount Rainier is a misty memory and occasional visitor in the winter or an everpresent luminescent beacon in the summer.
