A Surprise Visit to a Hot (and Cool) Art Destination - Kevin Caron

From www.kevincaron.com - Artist Kevin Caron takes a break from Phoenix's heat and his studio to visit Tacoma, Washington, where he shows you some artwork you won't see on any Tacoma tourist tours as well as a couple of squids ....
As the video opens, Caron is standing in the quiet room in the library of the University of Washington Tacoma, where Caron is looking at what he says could be an octopus or maybe a squid. It actually is a huge Dale Chihuly glas sculpture (Chinook Red Chandelier, 1999), suspended from the ceiling. Apparently Chihuly traded it with the university for storage space when he kept work in some old warehouses that the university converted into its campus.
Next, Caron stops by a Picasso - yes, a real Picasso - (Le Visage de la Paix [The Face of Peace, 1953) that was donated to the university by some Tacoma residents who went to Japan on a peace mission, where they were given this historic drawing. The university has it on display where anyone can see it.
Caron's next stop is just his kind of place, Tinkertopia, a shop on the commercial side of the university's buildings, where anyone can come in, pick through the bins and piles of cool stuff, and build, well, more cool stuff. This is Kevin's kind of place!
Tacoma's amazing Museum of Glass is just across the way. Caron shows off some of Dale Chihuly's work that is displayed on the Bridge of Glass, which leads to the museum. Rather than have his work displayed in the glass museum, Chihuly, who has helped make Tacoma a serious destination for lovers of glass art, has it shown on this bridge. It gives you a look at his work both in overhead displays and a wall of fantastical artwork.
Next stop: the Museum of Glass itself. Caron wanders through the museum, showing some of the artwork he saw there, including an area of lighted letters where you can make your own words. The best part, though, is the cone-shaped Hot Shop, where glass artists are creating a variety of artworks. Visitors can sit and watch as artists blow, pour and shape glass. (Hot shop activities are streamed live at museumofglass.o....
Meanwhile, you can see and hear Caron's wild work and his usual how-to videos at www.kevincaron.com

[@MrSuperMation]

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

[@CharlesStruble]

Thanks guys! Very cool, indeed!

[@BobNchannel]

im just a few miles from there Kevin, welcome to Washington, That whole area has changed so much for the better in the recent years.

[@WaveAction777]

Very cool

[@VisorBlue]

Nice. I like Dale Chihuly's work. Seen it in Vegas and a few other places. The DVDs on how he works are fun to watch, too. Thinking of collaborating and doing an amazing metal and glass piece?

[@coffeefish]

They waste an incredible amount of energy just messing around with pretty glass.

[@coffeefish]

Maybe it's all those blast furnaces that make the place so intriguing.