| Free Education Programs: BAC offers many free art education events each year. You can meet
artists in the Gallery talking about their work, or demonstrating
their materials and techniques. We’ve had special guest lecturers
speak on topics as varied as studio glass, Japanese American furniture
design, and the history of the Museum of Modern Art. We also offer
an occasional 15-minute art history discussion in the gallery.
BAC Workshops: Want to learn how to draw a boat?
How to create woven wire sculpture? How to make your own kite? How
to use that new digital camera? BAC offers affordable workshops
throughout the year, taught by our local artists or by guest instructors
from across the country.
Big Day of Glass
A special tour of the Museum of Glass
BAC’s tour of the Museum of Glass will focus on Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass.
It is not uncommon for an artist to be touted as “the greatest” or “most significant,” but in the case of Lino Tagliapietra, the pronouncements happen to be true. Tagliapietra left school at around age eleven to work full time in the glassmaking industry in the glass center of Murano, an island in the Venetian lagoon. This child, who developed into the world’s greatest living glassblower (and arguably one of the greatest in the history of glassmaking), also proved to be a superb artist and educator. In the process, the course of glass art was changed.
We will also visit Living Legacies: Homage to a Maestro; Dante Marioni: Form, Color, Pattern; and Contrasts: A Glass Primer (this exhibition catalogue is available for sale at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts).
We will also visit the Museum’s hot shop (closed for lunch, usually 1-2 p.m.) and see glass sculpture being created by the Museum’s team, and by visiting artist Susan Plum.
Tour Leader: Victoria Josslin
Date: Thursday, July 31
Time: Meet at the Museum of Glass, 10:30 a.m.
Tuition: $40. Includes Museum admission. Does not include transportation, parking, or lunch. To sign up, please inquire at the front desk.
Pioneer Square Gallery Tours resume on May 8. Join Victoria Josslin for a visit to Seattle art galleries. On the ferry, Victoria talks about exhibitions in the area, and introduces the galleries that we’ll be visiting. Many of the galleries provide us with our own private introduction to their shows. Wear your walking shoes! BAC’s Gallery Tours take place on the second Thursday of the month, May through September. Tuition, $10. Please sign up at the Gallery, or over the phone, 206.842.3132.
In the works . . .
The Bloedel Reserve becomes a BAC studio for four Sunday afternoons in August. More info soon.
Coming in October . . .
Jonathan Talbot returns to teach a new workshop, "Dancing with Design: Exploring Composition with Collage." Details coming soon.
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