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This Aldrich Experience will take your breath away . . .  Join 2002 Larry Aldrich Award recipient Fred Wilson for an exciting afternoon observing glass blowing at the world-renowned studio of Dante Marioni.  The beautiful glass pieces designed by Fred Wilson for his 2005 Aldrich exhibition, Black Like Me, were realized by Dante Marioni, whose own glass creations are in museum collections worldwide.  As if that wasn’t enough excitement for one day, next you will be whisked away for a private tour of a major Seattle art collection.

The period between his receipt of the Award and the mounting of Black Like Me was a critical time for Wilson, allowing his to return to the concerns that captured his imagination during his 2001 residency at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State.  In addition, in 2003 Wilson was the American representative at the United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale.  It was during the Pilchuck residency that he first met and worked with Dante Marioni.  They quickly developed a fruitful working relationship and a close friendship.  In May 2005 Wilson took his sketchbook to Seattle and transcribed the drawings onto a chalkboard adjacent to Marioni's glass furnace.  The ensuing dialogue saw Wilson's conceptual ideas transferred into the intensely physical and demanding medium of hot glass.

Details of the tour of the private art collection are being finalized, but we promise that you won't be disappointed!

(Transportation to Seattle and accommodations are not included in this Experience; this experience may only be scheduled in June or July of 2008.)