Gets Real: Tacoma Art Museum celebrates work of Hilltop artists

“GATHER: 27 years of Hilltop Artists” will be on display at the Tacoma Art Museum through September 4.TACOMA, Wash. — In a hot shop in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood, artists are being forged in glass.

They are unlikely artisans: teaching artist David Rios and hot shop production manager Trenton Quiocho, using heat and an artistic eye to train another generation of Tacoma students in the art of making glass. “I was really intrigued by the material,” said Quiocho. “And I gravitated toward it and kind of just never stopped.”“And I can already tell which will be the tail end,” he told the students, “just because of the way it’s kind of spitting out right now.”“Now I have the honor and blessing to be on the other side and keep encouraging them to explore this silly idea that we don’t know where it started,” said Rios. “But we know that it’s a voice for the student at the end.

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