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Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
  • Homo Faber 2024: The Journey of Life A Celebration of Contemporary Craftsmanship, Visit Website
2022
2021
  • Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: “50th anniversary of Pilchuck Glass School”
  • Whatcom Museum, “Fluid Formations: The Legacy of Glass in the Pacific Northwest”, Visit Website
  • Museum of Glass, “What are you looking at? An Eccentric Chorus of Artists Working in Glass” , Visit Website
2020
  • Stanze del Vetro Museum, Venice, Italy: "Venice and American Studio Glass.", Visit Website
2019
  • Chilean Embassy: “Reticula: Ecology and Art Re-imagined for the XXI Century.”
  • Koganezaki Glass Museum: "Artworks by Connecting Glass."
  • Tacoma Art Museum: "Metaphor into Form: Art in the Era of the Pilchuck Glass School."
  • Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: "Divergent Materiality: Contemporary Glass Art."
  • Flint Institute of the Arts: "Hybrid: Glass + Metal."
2018
  • Palm Springs Art Museum: Some of My Favorite Things from The Glass Collection of Arlene and Harold Schnitzer, Visit Website
2017
  • Traver Gallery, Seattle WA, "40th Anniversary", Visit Website
  • Palm Springs Art Museum, "No Glass Ceiling! Women Working in Glass, Part 1", Visit Website
  • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, "Fired Up: Contemporary Glass by Women Artists", Visit Website
  • Beyond the Picture Plane, Shoreline WA
  • Tacoma Art Museum, Selections from the Anne Gould Hauberg Collection, Visit Website
2016
  • Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA, The Kaplan Ostergaard Collection, "Glass of the New Millenium"
  • Mint Museum, RANDOLPH, Charlotte, NC, "American Studio Glass"
  • Mint Museum UPTOWN, Charlotte, NC, "Fired Up: Contemporary Glass by Women Artists" from the Toledo Museum of Art
  • Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan "Collection Exhibition"
  • Schack Art Center, Seattle, WA, "Painted Glass: A Northwest Perspective"
  • Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, CA
2015
  • Washington State Conference Center, Seattle, WA "Museum of Glass Visiting Artist Collection"
  • Museum of Northwest Art, La Connor, WA, "Pilchuck Print Shop Exhibition"
  • Koganezaki Crystal Park Glass Museum, Shizuoka-ken, Japan, "Various Glass Works in Each Unique Shape"
  • Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, "Still Life: Capturing the Moment"
  • Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Museum Weltkulturen, Mannheim, Germany *
  • Museum of Glass at Washington State Convention Center
2014
  • Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, "Re: Collection"
  • Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, "California Dreamin': Thirty Years of Collecting" *
2013
  • Toyama Glass Art Gallery, Toyama, Japan, "New Acquisitions"
  • Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, "A Glass Canvas"
  • Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA, "First Light: Regional Group Exhibition"
  • Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, "Creating the New Northwest: Selections from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collection"
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, "Top 10 at 10: Favorites from RAM's Collection"
  • Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, in collaboration with students from The University of Washington, "Northwest Artists Collect"
  • Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, "Eduardo Calderon: Portraits of 20 Northwest Artists"
  • Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, "Permanent Collection"
2012
  • Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, "Playing With Fire"
  • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, "Global + Local: Studio and Contemporary Glass on Florida's West Coast"
  • Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA, "Collecting: Art is a Slippery Slope"
  • Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, "Studio Glass: Works from the Museum Collection"
  • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, "Color Ignited: 1962-2012"
2011
  • Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA, "Pilchuck 40th Anniversary Exhibition"
  • Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, "Seattle as Collector; Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs 40th Anniversary Exhibition"*
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, "Not So Still Life"
  • Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Seattle Reigns" *
2010
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada, "Anna and Joe Mandel Collection" *
  • Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA, “Umbrella for the Arts: 40 Years of Bumbershoot Artwork”
  • Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Women in Glass: Innovators and Visionaries"
  • Koganezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka-ken, Japan, "Technique and Expression IV, Colors in Glass Art"
  • Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, AL, "American Luster: Select Examples of Contemporary Studio Glass"
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, "A Glass Act: First Rate Glass from RAM's Collection"
  • Experience Music Project Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Seattle, WA, "Taking Aim: Unforgettable Rock 'n' Roll Photographs Selected by Graham Nash"
2009
  • Hokkaido Modern Art Museum, Seto City, Japan, "The Finest Glass Works - from Galle to Today", traveling museum exhibition throughout Japan - Seto City Art Museum, Hitachi City Museum, Notojima Glass Art Museum and the Hatsukaichi Art Gallery
  • The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, "Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection"
  • Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, “Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection”
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, "Go Figure! The Human Form in RAM's Collection"
  • William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA, "Inspiration"
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, "Hot Stuff from the Hothouse: Floral Images from RAM's Collection"
  • Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI, "37th International Glass Invitational Awards Exhibition"
  • Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, "Contrasts: A Glass Primer"
2008
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, "The Body In Glass"
  • Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, "Eye Candy: Objects of Wonder and Delight"
  • The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL, "Glorious Glass: Translucent and Opaque"
  • Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, "Contemporary Glass"
  • Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK, "Hot Color, Cool Glass"
  • Koganezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan, "Let’s Enjoy Contemporary Glass"
  • Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, "No Joke: Selections from the Pruzan Collection" *
2007
  • Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Anniversary Exhibition"
  • Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), Chicago, IL
  • Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, "Cheers! A MAD Collection of Goblets"
  • Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, "Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America" *
  • Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, ID, "Sculpture"
  • Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, "Permanent Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Art" *
  • The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL, "Behind the Glass: Creativity and Collaboration" *
2006
  • Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, "Contrasts: A Glass Primer"
  • Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), Chicago, IL
  • Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, "Light of Day: Contemporary Prints and Studio Glass from the Permanent Collection"
  • Koganezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan, "Implied Messages of Glass–Irony X Satire" *
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA, "A Transparent Legacy: Studio glass Gifted to the Seattle Art Museum from the collection of John and Mary Shirley"
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, "Let’s Enjoy a Laugh: Humor and Whimsy in RAM’s Collection"
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Glass: Material Matters"
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C., "Women’s History Month Exhibition"
2005
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, "Magnificent Extravagance: Artists and Opulence"
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, "Magnificent Extravagance: Artists and Opulence"
  • Museum of Art and Design, NYC, "Dual Vision: The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection"’*
  • William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA, "2nd Annual World Glass Exhibition"
  • Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, "Fur, Fins and Feathers, Glass from the Rifkin Collection"
  • Koganezaki Glass Museum, Japan, "Glass Works of Women Artists"
  • Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, "Dorkbot-People Doing Strange Things with Electricity" *
2003
  • Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Il, "Flora"
  • University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI, "Five from Ten"
  • Toledo Museum of Art, "Contemporary Directions" *
  • Riley Gallery, Kirkland, WA, "The Waterford Crystal Artist Residency Series"
  • William S. Fairfield Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI, "American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement"
  • Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL, "Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass" *
2002
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "Selections from the Wm Block Collection" *
2001
  • City Space, Seattle, WA, "Northwest Masters"
  • Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, "Some Assembly Required" *
  • Shanghai Art Museum, China Millennium Monument, "Contemporary Glass Exhibition" *
  • American Craft Museum, NYC, "Memories of Murano-American Glass Artists in Venice" *
  • Cheongju City, Korea, "2nd Cheongju International Craft Biennale" *
  • Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO, "Gaia" *
  • Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, "Objects of Desire"
2000
  • Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, "Glass: a Celebration"
  • Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL, "Splendor in the Glass" *
  • Musee des Arts Decoratif, Lausanne Switzerland, "Verre" *
  • Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "Glass"
  • Sephora, NYC, "Aromatic Jewelry" *
  • Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY, "Millennium Glass" *
1999
  • Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, "Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass"
  • Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, "Selections from the Gerard S. Cafesjian Collection of Contemporary Studio Glass"
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, "Luminous"
  • Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Glass! Glorious Glass!"
  • Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, "Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass Art and its Origins"
  • MH de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, "The Art of Craft: Works From the Saxe Collection" *
  • Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, "Reflecting the Past: Contemporary Glass In Context" *
1998
  • Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, "Group Glass Exhibition"
  • Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, "Favorites:(Selected by Dale Chihuly)"
  • Smithsonian Institution SITES and USIA "American Glass Masters of the Art" *
1997
  • Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, "Recent Glass Sculpture: A Union of Ideas’*
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, "Glass Today by American Studio Artists" *
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, "Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections" *
  • Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, "The Renwick at 25"
  • Hsinchu Cultural Center International Glass Festival, Taiwan
  • Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland, "Artistes Verriers Contemporains"
  • Ebeltoft Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, "From Venice to Ebeltoft" (tours to Varberg, Sweden)
  • Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, "Embracing Beauty: Aesthetic Perfection in Contemporary Art" *
  • Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, "Calido!: Contemporary Warm Glass" *
  • Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, "Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection" *
  • Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), Miami, FL and Chicago, IL
  • St. Louis Art Fair, St. Louis, MO
  • Habatat Gallery, Detroit, MI, "25th Annual Glass Invitational Exhibition"*
1996
  • Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA, "Glass Evolutions"
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Studio Glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" *
  • Meyerson/Nowinski Art Associates, Seattle, WA
  • Museo Correr, Venice, Italy, "Venezia Aperto Vetro" *
1995
  • Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, "Garden of Delights"
  • Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, "National Objects Invitational Biennial" *
  • American Craft Museum, New York, NY, "Breaking Barrier: Recent American Craft" * (national tour includes the American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Albany Art Museum, Albany, GA
  • The Jewish Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, "A Hanukah Menorah Invitational"*
1994
  • American Craft Museum, New York, NY, "Form and Light, Contemporary Glass from the Permanent Collection"
  • Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, "The Beauty of Painted Glass"
  • China Times, Taipei, Taiwan, "Taipei International Glass Exhibition"
  • Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Wunderkamme" (curated by Maria Porges)
1993
  • Linda Farris Gallery, ArtFair Seattle, Seattle, WA
  • Bentley Tomlinson Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, "Contemporary Realism"
  • Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH, "Tell Me A Story" (tour in Southeast Asia from 1993-1996, sponsored by USIA)
  • Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, "Material Vision: Image and Object" *
  • The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, "Umbrella Project"
  • Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, "Tiffany to Ben Tre"
  • Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, "Glass From South Florida Collections"
1992
  • Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, "The Pet Show"
  • Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ, "Glass: From Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art" *
  • Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA, "Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy" (national tour 1992-1996: Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Brunnier Gallery, IA, State University, Ames, IA; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA) *
  • Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, "American Crafts: The Nation's Collection"
  • Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, "Works By Southern Women"
  • New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Newark, NJ, "Contemporary Glass Sculpture: Innovative Form and Expression"
  • Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI, "20th Annual International Glass Invitational Exhibition"
  • Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, "May 1992 Group Exhibition"
1991
  • International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass, Rouen, France, "Le Verre"
  • Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, "Masterworks, Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Now"
  • Espace Duchamp-Villon, Rouen, France, "Contemporary Glasswork Art 1991"
  • Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Celebrations and Ceremonies"
  • Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Group Show of New Artists"
  • Habatat Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Glass International" *
  • West End Gallery, New York, NY, "The Americans: A Venetian Tradition"
  • Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, "World Glass Now '91" *
  • Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Yokahama, Japan, "Glass Now '91" *
  • The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, "Studio Glass: Selections from the David Jacob Chodorkoff Collection" *
  • National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore, MD, "Personal Visions-Diverse Images"
  • The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, "Glass Today"
  • Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA, and Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, "Artists at Work"
  • Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, "The Frozen Moment-Glass in the Northwest"
1990
  • Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA, "Pilchuck Glass Exhibition at Sea-Tac Airport"
  • Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Pilchuck Print Exhibition"
  • James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Heal the Bay Surfboard Art Invitational"
  • Monica Borgward Gallery and Glassmuseum Immenhausen, Bremen, Germany and Lobmeyr, Vienna, "New Glass-Lampworked" *
  • Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY, "Artists for Amnesty" *
  • High Art Museum, Atlanta, GA, "By the Hand: Twentieth Century Crafts"
  • Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Yokahama, Japan, "Glass Now '90" *
  • American Craft Museum, New York, NY, "Explorations/The Aesthetic of Excess" *
  • Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Glass America"
1989
  • Musée National du Louvre, Paris, France, "Craft Today USA." * (tour of twelve European museums, 1989-1991; organized by the American Craft Museum, NY, NY)
  • Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Painting on Glass"
  • High Museum, Atlanta, GA, "Tradition/Studio Expression"
  • Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Glass America"
  • Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Pilchuck Faculty Show"
1988
  • Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, "World Glass Now" *
  • Bellevue Museum of Art, Bellevue, WA, "Celebration"
  • Florida State University Museum, Tallahassee, FL, "A Generation in Glass Sculpture" *
  • Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI, "Studio Glass: A Collectors International Survey" *
  • Bellevue Museum of Art, Bellevue, WA, "Pilchuck School: The Great Northwest Glass Experiment" *
  • American Embassy, Prague, Czechoslovakia, "Pilchuck Glass Artists of the Pacific Northwest" *
  • Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Glass America"
  • Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Pilchuck Faculty Show"
  • Habatat Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Glass National" *
1987
  • Darmstadt Museum, Darmstadt, West Germany, "25 Years-Glass as an Art Medium" *
  • Galerie Rob van den Doel, Hague, Netherlands, "American Contemporary Glass"
  • Habatat Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, "The New Aesthetic, an International Glass Invitational" *
  • Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Glass America"
  • Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Pilchuck Faculty Show"
  • Habatat Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Glass National" *
1986
  • Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Glass America"
  • Habatat Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Lampworking, An International Exhibit"
  • Huntington Gallery, Huntington, WV, "New American Glass, Focus West Virginia" *
  • Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, KY, "Contemporary Glass"
  • Bellevue Museum of Art, Bellevue, WA, "Celebration"
  • State Capitol Museum, Olympia, WA, "Washington Governor's Invitational"
  • Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Pilchuck Faculty Show"
  • Habatat Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Glass National" *
1985
  • Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY, "The Art of Wine" *
  • Kingsport Fine Arts Center, Kingsport, TN, "Southern Studio Glass/New Directions"
  • Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, "American Glass: 20 Artists" * (tour to Finland and Norway)
  • Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Pilchuck Faculty Show"
  • Habatat Gallery, Detroit, MI, "Glass National" *
1984
  • Leigh Yawkey Woodsen Art Museum, Wausau, WI, "Americans in Glass 1984" *
  • Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA, "Georgia Glass" *
  • Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Glass America"
  • Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Pilchuck Faculty Show"
1983
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, "Three Artists"
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