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With SOFA Chicago right around the corner, there is certainly a buzz among the locals (glass artists that is) about the show in Chicago on Nov 4th. Around this time everybody is busy getting work photographed, packed up and shipped off to the windy city for the biggest Sculptural Objects and Functional Art show in the country. Everybody likes to speculate on the climate of the show and how powerful sales will be this year. Well from what I have heard, so far… so good. I have been graced with some pre-show sales (In Urbanism, at left) and lots of positive feedback about the new work!

With that in mind I wanted to tell you about this great new blog that a friend of mine; Grace Meils has been writing about Seattle glass. Grace has had a much respected voice in the community for a long time and has worked for many arts organizations including Pratt Fine Art Center, Pilchuck Glass School and the Traver Gallery for which she is currently a gallery director.

The blog is called Glass Town USA  and its provided a much need fresh perspective into the eclectic glass community here in Seattle.  So check it out often!

Oh yeah and …… This is going on right outside the Bemis building.

I took these pictures from the front door. The Alaskan Way Viaduct, build in the 1950′s has met its match. Most thought us thought it would be a giant earthquake that would take the elevated highway down, but the bulldozers got there first. April actually made a piece about it once. It was called ” An afternoon with Ethan”

Were gonna miss it (I think).

There is something about its dirtiness, its concrete legs and the view, OMG the view driving down that highway on a sunny summer day (one of three we usually have) was amazing. Seeing the Olympic Mountains towering over Puget Sound to the west and the Seattle skyline to the east just made you feel like everything you were going places (which you were because you had to be driving to see that view). Bye Bye Viaduct, your future friend the deep bore tunnel will most certainly not have as much street cred as you did. We will miss you.