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Selected Group Exhibitions

* indicates catalogue

2012

  • Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, "Studio Glass: Works from the Museum Collection"
  • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, Glass Art Society annual conference, "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"
  • Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, "Well Hung: Chandeliers Revealed" *
  • 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

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 Ojects 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)

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"

1982

  • Horizons Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, "International Sculpture Conference Show"

1981

  • Leigh Yawkey Woodsen Art Museum, Wausau, WI, "Americans in Glass 1981" *

1975

  • LaGrange Museum, La Grange, GA, "La Grange Annual Juried Exhibition," (Gregory Battcock, juror)
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