C A P P Y   T H O M P S O N

B I O G R A P H Y

ARTIST STATEMENT

HOMEPAGE

EDUCATION

  1976 B. A., The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington  
  1971-1972 The Factory of Visual Arts, Seattle, Washington  
  1970-1971 Fairhaven College, Bellingham, Washington
     
EXHIBITIONS    
2002 "Contemporary Directions," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
2001 "The John H. Hauberg Fellowship Inaugural Exhibition," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
  2001 "Nineteenth Annual International Invitational," Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida
  2001 "The Glass Canvas," Heller Gallery, New York, New York
  2001 "29th Annual International Glass Invitational," Habatat Galleries, Saganaw, Michigan
  2000-2001 "Millennium Glass," Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation, Traveling Exhibition
  2000 "Contemporary Glass 2001: Eighteenth Annual International Invitational," Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida
  2000 "William Morris, Ginny Ruffner, Lino Tagliapietra & Cappy Thompson," Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
  1999-2001 "Hot and Cool: Contemporary Glass Works," Exhibits USA, Traveling Exhibition
  1999 "Dreamscapes and Other Realms," R Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  1999 "Progressions in Glass," Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia
  1998-2000 "American Glass: Masters of the Art," Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition
  1998 "Contemporary Painted Glass," Chappell Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
  1998 "The Dimensional Canvas: Painted Studio Glass," Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California
  1998 "Cappy Thompson," Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida (solo)
  1998 "Telling Compelling Tales: The Narrative in Contemporary Glass," Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
  1997 "Glass Today by American Studio Artists," Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
  1997 "New Works," Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
  1997 "Cappy Thompson," Leo Kaplan Modern, New York (solo)
  1996 "Celebrating the Figure," Penland Gallery, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
  1996 "Breaking the Mold: New Directions in Glass," Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
  1996 "Gathering the Light," Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
  1995 "Documents Northwest: Holding the Past," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
  1994 "Telling My Truth," Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
  1994 "Cappy Thompson," Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida (solo)
  1994 "World Glass Now '94," Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
  1994 "The Beauty of Painted Glass: New Directions in the Northwest," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
  1993 "New Acquisitions: Craft Today USA," American Craft Museum, New York, New York
  1993 "Story-telling in Northwest Craft," Craft Museum of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
  1993 "Tiffany to Ben Tre: A Century of Glass," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  1993 "Cappy Thompson," Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, New York (solo)
  1993 "Cappy Thompson," Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  1993 "Out of the Fire," Contemporary Art Niki, Tokyo, Japan
  1992 "Gardens," Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
  1992 "The Cutting Edge: Enamel Art for the Walls and Pedestal," Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
  1992 "New Art Forms," Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  1992 "Australian International Triennial Crafts Exhibition," Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  1992-1996 "Clearly Art: Pilchuck’s Glass Legacy," national touring exhibition: Whatcom County Museum of Art, Bellingham, Washington
  1991
"Cappy Thompson," Gallerie L, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
  1991 "The Frozen Moment," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
  1991 "The Age of Chivalry," Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, Alaska
  1991 "The Shaped Canvas," The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland (solo)
  1990 "New Art Forms," Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  1990 "Works Made in Czechoslovakia," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
  1989-1992 Craft Today U.S.A.," Touring exhibition: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, Finland; Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; and other venues
  1988 "Pilchuck Glass Artists," U. S. Embassy, Prague, Czechoslovakia1988
  1988 "Painted Vessels," Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
  1988 "Flat Glass/Three Views," Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
  1988 "Northwest Crafts," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
  1988 "Pilchuck Glass," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
  1987 "Thirty Years of New Glass," Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
  1987 "International Stained Glass Exhibition," Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
  1986 "Catherine Thompson," Marianne Partlow Gallery, Olympia, Washington (solo)
  1985 "Washington State Governor’s Invitational," State Capitol Museum, Olympia,Washington
  1982 "Catherine Thompson," Glass Showcase, Seattle, Washington (solo)
  1982 "Northwest Crafts Exhibition," Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Washington
  1980 "Catherine Thompson," Penryn Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
  1979 "Fired Arts," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington

 

   

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

   
2002 "What Happened to Stained Glass?" by Geoffrey Wichert, Glass 86 (Spring)
  2002 "John H. Hauberg Fellowship Inaugural Exhibition," American Craft (February/March)  
  2001 Contemporary Glass: Color, Light and Form, by Ray Leier, Jan Peters and Kevin Wallace, Guild Publishing
  2001 "Public Glasswork" by Matthew Kangas, Public Art Review (Spring-Summer)
  2000 Glass Art from Urban Glass, by Richard Wilfred Yelle, Schiffer
  2000 Painting on Glass, by Paige Gilchrist, Lark Books
  1998 Glass: From the First Mirror to Fiber Optics. The Story of the Substance that Changed the World, by William S. Ellis, Bard (Avon Books)
  1997 "Cappy Thompson, Leo Kaplan Modern, through July 4, 1997" by Karen Chambers, World Art Reviews (Internet Art Resources)
  1997 "Cappy Thompson: Narrative, Mythopoesis and the Vessel Form," Glass Art (January-February), cover and feature article
  1996 Pilchuck: A Glass School, by Tina Oldknow, University of Washington Press
  1995 "Holding the Past," Artifact (December)
  1994 "Narrative Glass Art," Neues Glas (March)
  1994 "The Beauty of Painted Glass," Neues Glas (April)
  1993 Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest, ed. by Laura Brunsman and Ruth Askey, Midmarch Press
  1992 Twentieth Century Stained Glass: A New Definition, by Robert Kehlmann, Kyoto Shonin, Japan
  1992 "Cappy Thompson’s Fabled World," Glass 47 (Spring), cover and feature article
  1992 Choices for Agile Hands, by Russell Shorto, Milbrook Press
  1991 Out of the Fire: Contemporary Glass Artists and Their Work, by Bonnie Miller, Chronicle Books
  1991 Living with Art, by Rita Gilbert, McGraw-Hill
  1991 "Glass Painters in the Northwest," Glasswork
  1990 "Portfolio," American Craft (April)
  1989 Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from the Corning Museum of Glass, by Suzanne Frantz, Harry Abrams
  1988 Glass Animals: 3500 Years of Artistry, by Albane Dolez, Harry Abrams
  1988 "Architectural Art," American Craft (June)
  1986 Washington Magazine, November, feature article
  1984 "American Stained Glass," Studio Magazine, cover photograph
  1982 "Northwest Stained Glass," Pacific Magazine, Seattle Times
  1981-1994 New Glass Review Nos. 2, 5, 9, 13 &15, Corning Museum of Glass
  1977 Glass Magazine (September), cover and feature article
     
SELECTED PUBLIC/CORPORATE COLLECTIONS    
    American Craft Museum, New York, New York
    Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
    Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
    Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
    City of Everett, Everett, Washington
    Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
    Davis, Wright & Tremaine, Seattle, Washington
    Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
    Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
    Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
    Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama
    Mountlake Terrace Public Library, Mountlake Terrace, Washington
    Nordstrom, Inc., Seattle, Washington
    Pacific First Center, Seattle, Washington
    Port of Seattle, Sea-Tac International Airport, Seattle, Washington (to be installed in 2002)
    Safeco Insurance, Seattle, Washington
    Seattle Public Utilities Department, Seattle, Washington
    Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
    Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
    Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Toyama, Japan
    University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
    Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, Washington (various schools and public buildings)
     

RELATED EMPLOYMENT

  2001 Workshop Instructor, School of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
  2001 Master Artist Workshop, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle Washington
  2001 Workshop Instructor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
  1998-2000 Master Artist, Experience Arts Camp, Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington
  1995-2000 Designer, Juanita Kreps Award, J.C. Penney Co. (Honorees: Sally Ride, Beverly Sills, Katharine Graham, Joan Ganz Cooney, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Helen Thomas)
  1997 Faculty, College of Fine Arts, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida
  1996 Faculty, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North CarolinaFaculty, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
  1993 Workshop instructor, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia
  1992 Workshop instructor, Centro del Arte Vitro, Monterrey, Mexico
  1987-2000 Faculty, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington (6 sessions)
     

HONORS

   
  2001 John Hauberg Fellowship, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington
  1998 Artist Images Series Bookmark, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington
  1997 Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle, Washington
  1995 Artist in Residence, Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Toyama, Japan
  1990 Fellowship for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts
  1984 Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington