Purchase Photos
All images in the show and elsewhere on the site are available for purchase. The images from the show are printed on .0425 thick 20x30 aluminum panels. The printing process uses dye-sublimation to infuse the image into the aluminum giving them incredible luminosity and vibrance. The panels are ready to hang, no matting or framing required, complete with a mounting system.
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Art Changes A City
The Museum of Glass
8 x 10 softcover
70 pages full color
67 photos
Online Gallery
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More About The Show
What is the show about?
From the intro to my forthcoming photography book on the Museum of Glass…
Can art really change a city?
Situated on Tacoma’s former industrial waterfront, the Museum of Glass opened to the public in 2002. The brainchild of forward-thinking civic and business leaders, the Museum has played an important role in the city’s ongoing quest to redefine itself. Intentional or not, art and aesthetics are at the heart of this endeavour. Just look around at what has happened in the neighborhood surrounding the Museum. A historic train station on the verge of collapse is restored to its former grandeur and transformed into a federal courthouse. Long-neglected factory and warehouse buildings of classic design and construction are revitalized and given new life as the University of Washington, Tacoma Campus. Add a world-class art museum and the State history museum, and this once rough part of town is now bustling with visitors from all over the world. And let’s not forget the striking “cable-stayed” bridge at the end of Thea Foss Waterway. Art has indeed transformed Tacoma.
Designed by renowned architect Arthur Erickson, the Museum of Glass is a multi-tiered complex with a series of pools to showcase glass sculpture. Inspired by the sawdust burners of Tacoma’s lumber days, the angled diamond-paneled cone is home to a working hotshop where some of the world’s leading glass artists can be seen year-round.
The Chihuly Bridge of Glass with its “Venetian Wall” and “Seaform Pavilion” along with the Museum’s three reflecting pools bring glass art out where the changing rhythms of nature, light, weather and the seasons interact in unpredictable ways, often with spectacular results. The interior of the Museum, with its strong industrial-design aesthetic, is no less interesting and photogenic.
The Museum is my backyard. Over the years, I have had the good fortune to document its many moods. From breathtaking sunrises to raging snowstorms, the complex never fails to yield something new for the camera…art has a way of doing that.
Watch A Video Slideshow
Transformation: Art Changes A City Opening August 7th from Peter Serko
Join The Show: Give Us Your Best Shot!
Become part of this exhibition! If you have a great artistic photo of MOG, send it in! It might be selected to be part of a digital display in conjunction with the show!
How to Participate:
Photo Submission Instructions:
- Photos must be submitted via Flickr.com. Not familiar with Flickr, here are a few intro videos
- Upload image(s) to your Flickr account.
- Join the Give Us Your Best Shot Flickr group . Once you join the group you can submit your photos to the Group Pool.
- The Flickr group is moderated; not all photos will be accepted. Those images accepted into the group will be reviewed by our panel of judges for inclusion in the show. You will be contacted if your image is accepted into the show.
- Images may not include copyright marks or other added text.
- Images can be submitted throughout the run of the show. So keep submitting new stuff
I will be conducting a number of photography workshops during the run of the show to include an opportunity for participants to shoot on the Museum hotshop floor with the hotshop crew. This will be a unique opportunity to get close-up and take some photos behind the scenes as well.