Gallery News

11.14.2008 Rick Araluce's Fragments of a Life, EAST
Seattle artist Rick Araluce received an Artist Trust GAP Grant to complete his project, Fragments of Life. Rick placed his signature miniature objects at random places throughout the downtown Seattle in September, and now, he has taken on New York City. Click here to view images of Fragements of a Life, EAST:
10.04.2008 Sonja Blomdahl and Shelley Muzylowski Allen featured at MoNA
Traver Gallery artists Sonja Blomdahl and Shelley Muzylowski Allen will be featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Northwest Art in LaConner from October 18, 2008 - January 4, 2009. An opening reception will be held Saturday, October 18 from 2 - 5 pm.
09.30.2008 Rick Araluce's Fragments of a Life
Seattle artist Rick Araluce received an Artist Trust GAP Grant to complete his project, Fragments of Life. Rick has placed his signature miniature objects at random places throughout the downtown area. Click here for a map to the "treasure hunt."
09.29.2008 Tacoma Art Museum Announces The 9th Northwest Biennial Participants
(Tacoma, WA) – Tacoma Art Museum has announced the artists selected to participate in The 9th Northwest Biennial, which will be on view from January 31 through May 25, 2009. Rock Hushka, Director of Curatorial Administration and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art for Tacoma Art Museum, and Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, selected 24 artists from the 543 entries. Traver Gallery artists Rick Araluce and Debora Moore were among those selected.
08.26.2008 Lino Tagliapietra's Retrospective Exhibition to Travel
Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass is no longer on display at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. If you missed it, you may still be able to catch it at one of these four venues.
07.09.2008 Tom DeGroot and Rick Araluce receive 2008 Artist Trust GAP Grants
Gallery artists Tom DeGroot and Rick Araluce both received Artist Trust GAP Grants in the amount of $1,500. In 2008, Artist Trust awarded $119,195 in Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) to 80 outstanding Washington State artists. The GAP program provides up to $1,500 to individual artists for various projects. In 2008, Artist Trust received a record 975 applications from artists working in all disciplines across Washington State.
06.01.2008 Tom Farbanish Exhibition Reviewed in Glass Magazine
Local critic Victoria Josslyn's review of Tom Farbanish's Tacoma exhibition "Verve." Click here to view the clipping from the Summer issue of Glass Quarterly.
05.31.2008 Jun Kaneko on Park Avenue
Jun Kaneko is the next artist selected by the New York City Parks Public Art Program for a sculpture installation from June to November 2008 on the Park Avenue malls in Manhattan.
05.28.2008 Preston Singletary featured in solo show at Museum of Glass in 2009
The Museum of Glass in Tacoma will present Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire and Shadows, the artist's first mid-career survey. The show will be on display from July 4, 2009 - August 1, 2010.
05.28.2008 Gallery Artist Mark Zirpel appointed Assistant Professor at UW
Gallery Artist Mark Zirpel was recently selected as the inaugural holder of the Dale Chihuly Endowed Chair in Glass at the University of Washington in Seattle.
04.22.2008 Einar and Jamex De la Torre review
Einar and Jamex de la Torre's California exhibition is reviewed by Jody Zellen in the April 2008 issue of ArtWeek.
04.09.2008 Alan Fulle featured on Seattle Channel's Art Zone
Nancy Guppy visits the art packed studio (his house, actually), of Alan Fulle to talk about his new exhibit at the Traver Gallery.
04.01.2008 Innersphere: Sculptural Works by Rik Allen
Rik Allen's show at EMP/SFM is reviewed by Ron Glowen in the April/May 08 issue of American Craft - Part 1
04.01.2008 Innersphere: Sculptural Works by Rik Allen
Rik Allen's show at EMP/SFM is reviewed by Ron Glowen in the April/May 08 issue of American Craft - Part 2
03.16.2008 Marioni’s glass gives museum tony twofer
Dante Marioni and Lino Tagliapietra's Museum of Glass Shows are compared to one another by Tacoma News Tribune's Rosemary Ponnekanti.
01.04.2008 2007 Tiffany Foundation Award Winners
Einar and Jamex de la Torre were selected by the Board of Trustees of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation to receive a $25,000 grant.
01.01.2008 Glass Act - Sonja Blomdahl
Sonja Blomdahl featured in Dec 2007/Jan 2008 issue of More magazine.