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Our trip will take in the vibrant art scene and beautiful landscape of Seattle and Tacoma. We will visit the Pilchuck Glass School, where art glass received its big boost in 1971 when Dale Chilhuly spearheaded what became the world’s most comprehensive center for glass art education. And we’ll see plenty of Chilhuly’s work. We will visit his Boathouse Studio on the shores of Lake Union, the new (2012) Chilhuly Garden and Glass Exhibition at the base of the Space Needle, and finally, the largest permanent collection of Chilhuly’s work at the Tacoma Art Museum, where the museum’s director will give us a tour. Outside the Museum is Chilhuly’s 500-foot pedestrian Bridge of Glass, which leads to the Museum of Glass.
One cannot go to Seattle without visiting the expanded Seattle Art Museum, where you are greeted by Jonathan Borofsky’s Hammering Man at the entrance and one of the nation’s premier collections of Northwest Coast Indian art as well as an equally large collection of African Art inside. They also have good collections of European and American art throughout the ages as well as strong modern and contemporary collections. We will also have a tour of the 9-acre Olympic Sculpture Park, which has some of the museum’s largest and most recognized sculptures by artists such as Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly – and the list goes on . . .
We have planned a tour of the fabulous Rem Koolhaus designed Central Library and will add the Asian Museum if time allows. The Seattle Art Museum is arranging tours in the best private collections in the city for us. Add to all of the above some interesting artist studios and galleries, and delicious Northwest meals, and we’ve got ourselves a winning trip. We hope you’ll join us!
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