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Celebrity Tours of "Debora Moore: Glass Orchidarium" with Stephanie Johnson Toliver
Join us for extended tours of the stunning new exhibition "Debora Moore: Glass Orchidarium"
Each tour is 40 minutes in length and will provide and in depth look into the spectacular world of Orchids, Glass, and the artistic process.
More about Debora Moore: Glass Orchidarium:
An orchidarium is a greenhouse or garden that is devoted to the collection and study of orchids. These flowers are complex, varied, mysterious, and seductive. They are traditionally associated with fertility, luxurious beauty, and exotic places.
Debora Moore creates sculpted glass orchids that are inspired by her distant travels and immersion in nature. Captivated by orchids, Moore affixes them to mossy glass logs and lengths of glass bamboo; suspends them in air; and scatters them onto walls. Her Orchidarium (2010) is a collection of blooms suspended within an enclosing wooden frame and lightly moving with air currents. It is a gentle dreamscape with a finely tuned balance of order and abundance. The environment Moore creates is one of lush repose.
Moore is a Seattle resident and the owner of Fiori Glass Studio since 1994. Trained by glass masters in the Northwest, including Dale Chihuly and Lino Tagliapietra, she has been passing her skills to a younger generation of women and African Americans through Tacoma's Hilltop Artist-in-Residence program and training of her studio glassblowing crew.
In 2005 Moore became the first woman, and first African-American, to be awarded a residency at Abate Zanetti, in the Venetian glassblowing center of Murano. In 2007, she was awarded the Rakow Commission in 2007 by the Corning Museum of Glass. She has had one-person museum exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum (2012) and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma (2005).
Moore has observed orchids in Jamaica, researched moss and lichen in Antarctica, and been entranced by Olympic nurse logs and Thai bamboo forests. She has drawn on each of these environments in her NAAM exhibition, creating magical dreamscapes that embody a healing peace.
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LocationNorthwest African American Museum (View)
2300 S Massachusetts St
Seattle, WA 98144
United States
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