Recent Event Photos

Slider Play Day in Portland
Sliders Will Be Discussed At Our Next Meeting March 16th!

Recently Carlyne Lynch, Margie Reiff, Greta Schneider, and Andrew Jagels did a SLIDER Play Day at Carlyne’s house. This coming general meeting on March 16th will be a presentation by Carlyne and Andrew talking about how to have fun doing sliders and showing some more of the results from our play day. It is also a good source of information about how to use up some of that scrap glass we all have!

slider by Greta Schneider

Members Debbie Marchione and Heidi Federspiel set up their pieces during a recent scrap melt Play Day at Karen Seymour’s in Seattle. The Play Day on Friday March 21st has space for one more.

3 of the resulting bowls.

Karen Azinger, one of our glass guild members, approached the guild with a unique opportunity! She could have an Art Exhibit at the Lakewood Center for the Arts in Lake Oswego based on the subjects of her books. The book series she created, the Silk and Steel Saga, is about the Steel Queen. It is a seven-book adventure full of knights and swords, love and betrayal, sorcery and seduction. Kingdoms and characters come alive as they are woven together in complex plot twists. She gave us a three month window to get the pieces done using subjects of our choosing.

The Pacific NW Glass Guild responded and a number of members each created one or two pieces of art based on this awesome book series.

Karen Azinger and her husband Rick Holmes

“The MAP” by Carlyne Lynch

“Honor” by Rick Holmes

“Escape” by Linda Gerrard

Artists that participated in the exhibit: Karen Azinger and her husband Rick Holmes, Ann Cavanaugh, Megan Andrews, Greta Rice Schneider, Carlyne Lynch, Linda Gerrard, Dianne Muhly, and Juliet Peterson Spaulding.

At the opening, music and light food and beverages were offered. Karen gave a fascinating description of how she got started and how she learned to give depth and individuality to the various story lines, locations of events and of course, the many characters involved in the story lines. It was a very unusual and fun subject matter to use to come up with glass designs.

Thanks for a fabulous glass exhibit and the opportunity to create and display our high-end artwork. We need more events like this! Any ideas?

“Queen Liandra” by Karen Azinger

The Crystal Daggar” by Megan Andrews

‘the Deep” by Ann Cavanaugh

“Illumination” by Greta Schneider

Karen Azinger’s Castle Theme Suncatcher

“Castle” by Diane Muhly

“Kraken” by Carlyne Lynch

Ocean Vase by Juliet Peterson Spaulding