Mobile hot shop captures museum images in glass
Rebecca Gourley
Reporter
The Museum of Glass in Tacoma had their Mobile Hot Shop set up outside of the Maryhill Museum June 12 to June 18.
Richard Langley, Becca Chernow, and Heather Cornelius were blowing and molding glass over the seven day event. Langley has been working with glass for 13 years, Chernow for eight years, and Cornelius for three years.
Wednesday, June 16, all three were working on an interpretation of part of one of the exhibits in the Museum.
They were attempting to make a hat covered in roses entirely out of glass, from the Theatre De La Mode. They first started with the roses, an incredibly detail-oriented process.
Each glass petal was molded onto the bud one at a time. They started by heating the clear glass to nearly 2300 degrees Fahrenheit, then taking a big “bulb” of glass and coloring it with small pieces of colored glass. After that, it took two people to create the roses.
One glass blower had the large bulb of glass while the other had a smaller one. One at a time, each petal was stuck onto the smaller glass bulb and flattened.
They repeated this process many times to get about a two inch rose. After each one was completed, they were put into the “garage,” a furnace heated to just 1000 degrees Fahrenheit to keep the glass from cracking, and also from melting.
During the seven days that the Mobile Hot Shop was at Maryhill Museum, they gave away almost all of what they made. From paper weight glass balls to peacock feathers made of glass; the team of three made a lot of pieces.
KVH holds its own ‘yard’ sale Friday
Normally people visit parking lot sales and find items like tables, chairs, benches, bed, baskets, bookcases, and the occasional odd item or two. It is not often one is able to find a vintage exam table. How about a vascular mini-lab Doppler, apothecary glass, or a film replicator?
Klickitat Valley Health (KVH) will be hosting a parking lot sale of these and many other surplus items on June 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sale will be located in the lower parking lot adjacent to Collins Ave (next to the Family Practice Clinic). Many of these items are out dated pieces of equipment that the hospital may no longer use or items that may have been damaged or broken. However, one organization’s obsolete piece of equipment may be the next person’s vintage up-cycled treasure.
No reasonable offer will be refused for the items being sold which include televisions, shower chairs, walkers, and wheelchairs. These items will be sold as is, no warranty, and must be removed from the lot once they have been purchased. Other items on the docket are a treadmill system, desks, dishes, vases, label dispensers, and seat risers.
The sale is cash only and first come, first serve; all sales are final.
Maryhill offers full family schedule for Fourth of July
The Maryhill Museum of Art will once again host a July 4 celebration from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. There will be an after-hours laser light show, live music, kids’ activities and free admission to the museum between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Here is a run-down of all that is planned:
Fourth of July Picnic Dinner, 5 p.m.to 8 p.m.
Visitors can purchase a Fourth of July dinner from Cafe Maryhill or bring their own picnic to enjoy on the grounds.
Family Fun: Smokey Bear and Art-Making, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Smokey Bear will pay a visit to share summer fire safety tips with youngsters (from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.). Art-making activities will be ongoing from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for free.
Live Music and Laser Light Show, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The Gorge Winds will play Fourth of July classics from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. At 7:30 p.m. Christopher Kern of Island Breeze will entertain on steel drums. As night falls near 10 p.m., the Lasersmith Fourth of July display with brightly-colored laser graphics will be projected onto the museum building and set to a musical soundtrack for the whole family. The evening’s events are free.
On July 4, children under 17 get free admission to the museum all day with one paid adult admission. The museum is open free to all between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
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