Recent Event Photos

Sponsor Carlyne Lynch was the only vendor actually present. Here she’s giving a demo of her vitrigraph products.

Carlyne kindly brought along sponsor Gerald McBride’s wooden stands and water at the tip grinders (left and in foreground of next photo) because he had emergency hip surgery.

Some enjoyed the potluck or placed last minute bids while waiting for the silent auction to end; others went off shopping at sponsor/host NW Art Glass.

Lesley Kelly and Linda Roman again did a great job of ringing up sales at the common till.

Members selling their work included Lyn Kennison, Linda Roman & Kate Nichlos, Gordon Yutzy, Pree Carpenter, Daryle Ryder, Lesley Kelly & Margie Rieff, Teresa Kaufman, Jonathon Tardif and Barbara Kienle

Beyond the sales area was the demo booth and Bulleye’s booth. Here Pam Archuleta gives a demo

Other demos were by Jonathon Tardif (above), Carlyne Lynch, Barbara Kienle, Greta Schneider, Lyn Kennison, and Daryle Ryder

Gathering of the Guilds (GOTG) went really well this year and sales even exceeded last year! A couple of people shared spaces so there were actually 11 artists and it was great to have a few new people doing it for the first time! Bullseye had a booth again and right next to it Carlyne Lynch managed the demonstration booth where different people gave talks and demos throughout each day. We had good traffic throughout the entire show.

We also had an area adjacent to the guild where lots of lovely work was donated by various guild members and those proceeds went to our member Andrew Jagels, who was recently diagnosed with ALS, to help with medical bills and medical equipment purchases. If you are not familiar with Andrew, he is a very popular coach in the Narcissus Community and he gave that really great talk at our last general meeting! We will be selling a few pieces that are left plus more in the future by either an online sale or auction so that his glass community who are from far and wide also have a chance to participate and help. We will post when that comes out and Carlyne is very involved in planning the next fundraiser if you have questions or suggestions. If you would like to donate or know someone who might like to: Andrew and Courtney’s GoFundMe is available online. THANK YOU again to everyone who has helped so far!!!! (from Greta Schneider)

Our ArtInBloomSeattle.com garden art studio tour and sale had great weather.

Here is member Janiene Fitzpatrick showing her work to visitors at site #1

Site # 4 was hosted by member Karen Seymour and included member Lael Bennett plus another glass artist, a ceramicist and a metal artist (see the adjacent video)

Members not shown are hosts
David Smith (Blowing Sands) site #3 and Milo Snyder site #5.

October 17-18 we’ll do it again: our Guild sponsored GlassAndDecor.com studio tour is part of Refract, the big 4-day area glass celebration (RefractSeattle.org). It’s worth a trip to Seattle.

Best of the NW, Seattle

Jonathon Tardif brought his blown glass up to Seattle in mid-April for the annual Best of the Northwest spring show

Thank you to all who sent photos or text:

Pam Archuleta, Janiene Fitzpatrick & Eric True, Carlyne Lynch, Barbara Kienle,
Greta Schneider, Linda Schnell, Karen & Dick Seymour, Suzanne Tyler
(and anyone we forgot)

Please send us photos of YOUR glass events and those you attend:

Having a photo makes it so much easier to invite people to participate in an event next year. If you are part of or go to a glass event and see one of our members, please take some photos and send the best 2 to the Newsletter team (600 px wide or “medium” resolution, about 500 KB, not more than 1MB if you can help it).