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Erwin Timmers installs site specific artwork made of recycled glass and materials in Bethesda, MD. Erwin Timmers (born 1964) [1] is a Dutch-born American artist [2] [3] and the co-founder of the Washington Glass School [4] [5] [6] in the Greater Washington, D.C. capital area.
Logo of the Washington Glass School. The Washington Glass School was founded [1] in 2001 by Washington, DC area artists Tim Tate and Erwin Timmers. The school teaches classes [2] on how to make kiln cast, fused, and cold worked glass sculptures and art. It is the second largest warm glass school in the United States. [3] [4]
Tim Tate (born 1960) [1] is an American artist and the co-founder [2] [1] of the Washington Glass School in the Greater Washington, DC capital area. The school was founded in 2001 and is now the second largest warm glass school in the United States. [3] Tate was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1989 [4] and was told that he had a year left to live. [4]
The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum located in Washington, D.C. that displays American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to 21st century. The gallery is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was opened in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the Corcoran Gallery of Art .
As of March 2022, it housed 82 artists' studios, 8 galleries, and workshops, with some 165 professional visual artists who work in a variety of media, including painting, ceramics, photography, jewelry, stained glass, fiber, printmaking, and sculpture. [2] The Torpedo Factory has become a model of creative placemaking for other communities. [3] [4]
Smithsonian officials subsequently began discussing a major change to the renovation design: Adding a glass roof to the open courtyard in the center of the Old Patent Office Building. Congress approved the change in August 2003. In March 2004, the Smithsonian announced that Foster and Partners, would design the glass canopy. [26]
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
360° panorama. Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (better known as The Peacock Room [1]) is a work of interior decorative art created by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll, translocated to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Whistler painted the paneled room in a unified palette of blue-greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf.