Guild Event

Please join us at one or both of the upcoming Open Studio Tours this fall! Guild members and artists skilled in fusing, blowing, stained glass, casting, jewelry, mosaic, and other art forms will have artwork available to purchase, along with demonstrations at some sites. Many of the studios are not normally open to the public, so don’t miss your chance to get a little peek into where the magic happens. Meet the artists, learn about their creative process, and find unique and beautiful items for sale. Get a head start on your holiday shopping list or buy something fabulous for yourself! Tours take place rain or shine.

Visitor enjoying the artwork at Marvelous Mosaic Fine Art Studio in Deer Island OR. It’s in an old schoolhouse: see the marvelous art and the great space where they host weekend glass retreats.

Participating member artists include:

1) Marvelous Mosaic Fine Art
IS NOT ABLE TO PARTICIPATE

2) Shirley Bishop
36311 SE 3rd Circle, Washougal WA
Guests: Gail Haskett, Kate Nicklos,
Linda Roman

3) Evan Burnette
866 N Columbia Blvd, Portland OR

4) Lyn Kennison
6644 NE 22 Ave, Portland OR
Guests: Lesley Kelly, Sondra Radcliffe, Margie Rieff

5) Rosalind Cooper
14795 SW Kilchis Street, Beaverton OR

6) Linda Gerrard
8400 SW Maverick Terrace, Beaverton OR
Guest: Dianne Muhly

7) Margaret Eagle
17380 SW Hillsboro Hwy, Sherwood OR

8) Carlyne Lynch
6890 Molalla Bend Road, Wilsonville OR
Guests: Rose McBride, Greta Schneider

9) Mitzi Kugler
4970 Bonnet Dr, West Linn OR

Here’s a link to the Google Map

1) Charles Friedman
2841 NW 70th St

2) Blowing Sands Studio/David Smith 5805 14th Ave NW

3) Karen Seymour
5415 Greenwood Ave N
Guests: Lael Bennett, Kathy Johnson, Debbie Marchione

4) Janiene Fitzpatrick
204 N 73rd St

5) Fred Buxton & Sandy Spear
7001 Roosevelt Wy NE

6) Bridget Culligan
5419 Kensington Pl N

Mitzi Kugler showing her torch-working and fusing artistry in her West Linn OR studio

Carlyne Lynch’s Wilsonville OR studio will have both colorful art and fun projects for you

Margaret Eagle’s Sherwood OR studio is in an old stable that gives lots of room to look at glass.

Linda Gerarrd shows visitors the backroom of her Beaverton OR Studio where the magic happens.

This year’s show was a huge success with 23 artists, lots of dedicated volunteers, many, many compliments from the people who attended and really well crafted booth layouts. People should be very proud of their participation based on compliments on the wonderful artwork and that people who attended were so very grateful we had the show again this year.

Attendance for this year was 13,526 people coming in the hall. The majority of the people came in the afternoon of each day, which jives with the unexpected first day of sunshine and hot weather we had on Saturday with people doing outdoor activities in the morning and then coming to the show and cooling off and shopping. Compared to previous years, we did well, surpassing the 13,077 of 2022 and 12,334 of 2019 and moving toward the high we had in 2018 of 18,048.

Every guild reported increased sales from previous years. We are still waiting for three bills to come from the LLC, the convention center and the furniture company before we know how much the guild made, but overall, sales were higher than last year. Our group booth which also included New and Emerging Artist members had total sales of $7500!

One interesting observation was that each guild reported items sold this year were primarily smaller items, art cards, and products that could be worn or put outside. The potters were especially surprised that a lot of their larger pieces didn’t sell this year as they have in the past.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out the Survey Monkey survey. The results will be compiled in time for the June board meeting and the June general meeting, but generally, there were concerns with the booth layouts, the load out process, how the demos were announced and providing a schedule beforehand, and the volunteer sign up system. Except for problems with the AC temps, people enjoyed meeting and working with the artists and vendors, talking to the visitors and reconnecting.

Our Demonstration Area: An exciting attraction at this years show was return of our demonstration area. Several artists took time away from their booths to show attendees many aspects of how we create beautiful art. Barbara Kienle won as the best demonstration of how to make cute suncatchers with framed scenes. She let visitors make their own and then she took them to her studio and fired them. Other fun demonstrations included: Carlyne Lynch / vitrigraph, Greta Schneider / dichroic glass jewelry, Kathie Wise / mosaics, Gerald McBride / his water attachment for grinders, Roz Cooper / vases and Lyn Kennison / lanterns.

Greta Schneider dichroic glass

To Our volunteers – We couldn’t do it without you!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who volunteered and helped before, after and during the show this year! Events like GotG which are a huge benefit to us as individual artists, the art and glass community in general and also our glass guild…cannot happen without volunteers! We realize some of you may want to volunteer mostly to get the reduced commission…..and some of you are in a booth by yourselves and have to work before or after the show or have friends or family help out to some extent during the show and we tried to make at least some workable hours available to everyone. We would also like to give a special thanks to people we know came and gave their time either to help someone earn a lower commission or just came and helped because they want to support the guild and the artists who were there.

Whatever motivated you…..that time spent benefits all of us and makes the show run so much more smoothly. We had some new and unique situations and booth set ups this year and it was much more complicated than in the past to find out how many people we might have signing up and to figure out how many volunteer hours were needed, and available, and how to make them available to the artists in a fair manner….so everyone could take advantage of the commission reduction to some extent. We will probably do a few things differently next time but considering all the new people we had, and the variations on types of booths and numbers of artists in the different configurations, it went pretty smoothly.

Also, a special thanks also to those who helped get the gallery display pieces picked up and delivered to the show and even more…..helped get all of it back to the storage unit in the relatively short time span that we had on Sunday afternoon. That is an extremely important job and we know it occurs when everyone is tired and ready to just pack up and go home! There was a little confusion about the Airtable and the Sign Up Genius… Airtable only gave us an idea how many people might be available for certain types of jobs, not actual shifts. Sign up Genius, which Mitzi was thankfully able to set up online, made it much easier for people to get their actual shifts in and know what was still available. We will all be discussing ways to make the sign up system plus actually keeping track of hours done more efficiently next year. There was definitely a bit of a learning curve on volunteer hours this year….but all in all it went well.

On behalf of the Pacific Northwest Glass Guild we would like to extend a HUGE thank you to our Lesley Kelly who coordinated our participation in this year’s Gathering of Guilds…a job well done!!!

Our artist/vendors thank you for your unending patience, encouragement and problem solving…you are the perfect person for the job.

1) 315 West B Street, Rainier, OR
Rachel Dollar (Marvelous Mosaic Fine Arts)
Guests: Terry Thomas, Lori LaRue, Theresa Videan
Ask about alternative to stairs. Open Friday too! We will have vitrigraph pulls at 1 PM each day.

2) 866 N. Columbia Blvd. # B202, Portland OR
Evan Burnette‘s Studio, Come see LIVE glass blowing demos throughout the event!

3) 5529 N. Vancouver Ave, Portland OR
Sondra Radcliffe‘s Studio,
We have a few steps down to basement or up to the porch.

4) 821 NE 63rd Ave., Portland OR
Richard Glenn‘s Studio,

5) 4331 SE Brooklyn St., Portland OR
Barbara Kienle‘s Studio
Guest: Stephanie Johnston
We hope to have some projects for people to try.

6) 8400 SW Maverick Terrace, Beaverton OR
Linda Gerrard’s Studio
Guest: Sharon Dunham
Linda will have the studio open and give some step by step explanations of her glass techniques.

7) 17380 SW Hillsboro Hwy., Sherwood OR
Margaret Eagle‘s Studio
Guests: Lyn Kennison
Mari Aoki Knight,

8) 6890 Molalla Bend Rd., Wilsonville OR
Carlyne Lynch‘s Studio
Guests: Rose McBride, Greta Schneider
There will be a live vitrigraph pull on each day, story boards and talks to show how things are done and probably some small projects for our customers to do.

9) 4970 Bonnet Dr., West Linn OR
Mitzi Kugler‘s Studio

Tour Seattle Oct. 15-16:

The Guild is sponsoring the 8th annual GlassAndDecor.com Studio Tour and Sale which focuses on items for the home. Over 20 artists in glass and other media show their work at 6 close together studios in north Seattle.

There will be PNW Glass Guild members at almost every site:

• Bridget Culligan (studio #1)
• Sandy Spear (#2)
• Karen Seymour (#3),
• our featured sponsors Lael Bennett (#3)
  and Kathy Johnson (#3)
• Janiene Fitzpatrick (#3)
• David Smith (#4)
• our featured artist, Charles Friedman (#5) .

This event is part of Refract, the Seattle area’s annual 4-day city-wide celebration of glass.

See GlassAndDecor.com for more info.

September 17th & 18th
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Hi Fellow Glass Enthusiasts! This will be our 7th year having an Open Studio Tour and Sale. Mark your calendar now to see and buy some inspiring glass.

Artists selling in the tour only pay $60.00! The price goes up to $75.00 on August 6th, so don’t miss out on this deal! Registration closes August 13th.

The show is open to all current PNWGG members. Those who have their studio or home in these five counties: Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas Counties in Oregon or Clark County Washington can host in their own space. Members who live in other counties may participate by being hosted in a studio within these 5 counties.

See the Registration info page for all the links and details.

If you want to be a host, fill out the Host form

If you’ve already made arrangements with a host studio, you’ll enter that information on the Registration Form from the website. The process is easiest if your host signs fills out the Host registration form before you fill out the Artist Registration form so please check with them that they have done so.

If you don’t have a host yet, fill out the Artist Registration ASAP and we’ll try to match you with a host studio.

Once you register and have a host, you can pay by debit or credit card on the website.

We need a volunteer to help us hand out signs and collect the flyers eligible for the drawing. Let Linda know right away if you are able to help. Sign distribution will be handled at the picnic on August 28th. All signs must be returned to the VOLUNTEER prior to November 1st. Also, all flyers that are valid for the $50 drawing will need to be turned in to at that time as well. Once we have a volunteer, the tour coordinator will provide a contact number in case you need to pick up your signs at their home.

If you have any questions, please contact either Linda Gerrard or Carlyne Lynch, tour Co-Chairs.

1) August 14th in Seattle WA 11am potluck at Karen Seymour’s near the Zoo.

see the event link for more

2) August 28th in Washougal WA (a suburb of Portland) 11 am potluck at Linda and Kate’s house

see the event link for more

If, like me, you never get around to taking images of your latest work because setting up the lights and backdrops is such a pain. Let’s do it together Saturday July 16th at 10am.

Bring some of your work and your camera or cell phone. I’ll set up some lights and backgrounds, and we can take pictures. Then we can look at the results and discuss fixes. At Karen Seymour’s (by the Zoo in Seattle). We’ll try to do a Zoom portion too (log in and see the event link for the Zoom). Contact Karen Seymour if you’re interested.

Summary of the Presentation by Connie Terry, Business Strategist at our June General Meeting

Members can log-in and see this meeting video and other posted meetings under Glass>education

Connie Terry can be contacted at: info@growyourbusinessincome.com
www.growyourbusinessincome.com

How to use your business Facebook page to grow your business
Facebook’s goal
Keep people on Facebook
An engaged audience
Things that stop growth
YouTube links
Links to websites
Lack of engagement

Connect with your glass friends and make new ones. All members are invited to the party at 3:30 PM December 12th on Zoom. Make a toast and discuss your glass plans for next year.

There will be an optional draw-a-number gift exchange with the added twist of being able to steal a gift from someone else. Gifts are generally in the $30 range. Keep your gift item small in case you have to mail it. The Zoom link will be available to logged-in Members on the event page closer to the date.

Invite a few glass friends to join you in front of one computer for the party!

10 am – 4 pm both days

Outdoors or well ventilated, masks etc.

A) Kory & Rachel Dollar
at Marvelous Mosaic Fine Art
64535 Columbia River Hwy
Deer Island, OR 360-719-9298

Guest Artists: Jennifer Hart, Kevin Kanyo, Lyn Kennison,
Terry Misley, Kathie Wise

Marvelous Mosaics will have snacks, demonstrations, and a free small project for kids.

B) Linda Gerrard’s Studio
8400 SW Maverick Terrace
Beaverton, OR 503-804-3105

Guest artist: Dianne Muhly

Have a snack. Enter the drawing: you might win some art.

C) Margaret Eagle’s Studio
17380 SW Hillsboro Hwy.
Sherwood OR 971-235-4578

Guest artists: Holly Crilly, Sharon Dunham

There will be mosaic projects to try!

D) Carlyne Lynch’s Studio
6890 Molalla Bend Road
Wilsonville, OR 503-784-2277

Guest artists: Lisa Mustain, Greta Schneider

FREE sun catcher project (free supplies and firing),
and there will be a drawing too.
Plus FREE vitrograph stringers for GUILD MEMBERS from Carlyne, as well as some low cost flame working tools for sale

Come to Marvelous Mosaic Fine Art in Deer Island, and create a mosaic project. Cost is $10 for an 8″x8″ glass block plus $10 for the glass, glue etc. You don’t need to bring anything. The blocks are able to receive LEDs if you want to add lights but lights are not included.

Play Days are an exploration, not an organized class, but there will be other members to answer your questions. Play Days are for Guild Members only. Please join the guild before registering

64535 Columbia River Hwy, Deer Island, OR 97054 (45 minutes north of downtown Portland)

Contact Kory Dollar to register or if you have questions.

https://marvelousmosaic.com/

Suzanne Tyler

Sky Archuleta

Janine Shelly

Karen Seymour

Candace Pratt