Aaron Tate Visiting Glass Artist-in-Residence

Sunday, Feb 16, 2020

On Sunday, February 16 and throughout the following week, Aaron Tate will be participating in a variety of events as a visiting artist for the Art and Art History Department’s Glass Program.

On Sunday, February 16 at 6:00 p.m. following a community potluck at 5:30 p.m., Tate will be giving a lecture on his artistic process along with three other invited glass artists. On Tuesday and Thursday, February 18 and 20, he will be speaking with students and doing glass blowing demonstrations from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the UTA Studio Art Center, 810 S. Davis Drive, Arlington, Texas.

Aaron Tate is a glass artist, artisan, and educator with Marrs Art Glassblowing Studio in Dallas, Texas. He has been involved with glass blowing since first seeing it as a teenager in Tucson, Arizona, and has continued his trajectory in the field throughout his many years working in Seattle, Washington, until settling in North Texas several years ago.

As he stated in an online article for Voyage Dallas magazine in 2018: My passion for glass began the first moment I saw it when I was 18 years old in Tucson Arizona. Since that time, I have never left the glass shop. Learning constantly, as I worked in factories and for artists, during a long career in Seattle Washington. I make all types of glass, being a craftsman, artisan, sculptor, and teacher… (see Voyage Dallas magazine article here)

The underlying precept of my sculptural work is spiritual symbolism‭. I aspire for the pieces to have a personal connection with the viewer, evoking a sense of thought about our development as individuals and as a collective people‭. ‬I hope for my pieces to spark dreams of where we are going and who we are in the grand sense‭. -- Aaron Tate‬‬