My appreciation for any of my readers who read my LONG post yesterday containing my short piece for my writing class and an alternative view of education.
Today Dennis and I took Melina to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, especially the Hot Shop, the main attraction. The Northwest produces a lot of art class mainly due to the influence of Dale Chihuly and the Pilchuck School. The Museum of Glass features a large specialty art glass facility complete with kilns, ovens, special tools, hot glass, experts and whoever else that's in there. It's set up so you can watch the hot shop staff at work producing the works of art with seats and viewing ramps. Today, an artist (Vivian Howard) was in residence and the crew was producing the glass pieces for her upcoming show Parenthetically Speaking. Red and Black pieces of glass representing punctuation marks and editing characters.
You really see them do real dangerous things with extremely hot glass. Not for amateurs. I think Melina was frightened at first. They guys are REAL professionals, they work together effortlessly. Lots of flames and torches if that's what you like. Back and forth they bring the art piece from the oven to a work bench where they do mysterious things with metal tools.
First shot shows Dennis and Melina from an observation ramp to get an idea of the size of the place. The second shot shows the artist on the right looking on. The actual piece is the black shiny thing in dead center. Some kind of elipse shape. We saw the piece from start to finish, about two hours.
Melina is very interested in museums right now. Don't think she has been to many. So we've been going. Why not?
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