Live Glassmaking in the Hot Shop Amphitheater
Where creativity ignites into art…
Witness art coming alive as the Museum’s resident team of artists demonstrate the fascinating process of creating works of art from molten glass. Glass blowing is a mesmerizing and magical process, and many visitors spend hours in the Hot Shop. What you will see is not just a staged demo, but an authentic artistic process—real artists engaged in real creative projects.
- Watch professional artists use glass as an art medium.
- See closeups and enlightening video on the big screen.
- Listen as our interpreter explains the process, the art, the science and the history of making glass.
- Sometimes you even get to help design the piece.
About the Hot Shop
The Museum’s 90-foot steel cone houses the Hot Shop and has become a Northwest landmark. This state-of-the-art studio with several furnaces burning at over 2000°F allows us to push the limits of glass as an art medium. But you wouldn’t envy our natural gas bills…
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About the Team
Our resident team of professional artists is among the best glassblowing teams in the world. Any day the Museum’s open, these guys are playing with fire and making art.
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Visiting Artists
We invite internationally recognized artists and local emerging artists to come and participate in residencies at the Museum. Almost every week you can see a different artist working in our Hot Shop with our home team of glassblowers.
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