CAPPY THOMPSON STUDIO, INC.

707 S SNOQUALMIE STREET • SUITE 4A • SEATTLE WA 98108

Tel.: 206-915-0056 • Email: cappy@cappythompson.com

appy Thompson is an internationally recognized Seattle artist known for her mytho-poetic narratives on glass using the grisaille (or gray-tonal) painting technique.

Selected Exhibitions

2022:    “Indie Folk: New Art and Songs from the Pacific Northwest,” The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman; The Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon

2021:            “Fluid Formations,” Whatcom Museum, Bellingham Washington

2019:          “Metaphor into Form,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington

                      “BAM! Glasstastic,” Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington

2018:        “Narratives in Glass,” Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California

2016:           “Fired up: Women in Contemporary Glass," Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina 

“All Together Now,” Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon, Washington (solo)

                “The Beauty of a Shared Passion," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington

2015:           “Flourish: Selected Jewelry from the Daphne Farago Collection," Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina

2013:       “Telling Tales,” Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington (solo)

“Northwest Artists Collect,” Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington

2012:              “Playing with Fire,” Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

                  “Pilchuck: Ideas,” Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, Washington

2011:          “Seattle Collects,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

2010:        “Eyes for Glass: The Price Collection,” Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington

2006:             “Cappy Thompson: Stars Falling on Alabama,” Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL (solo)

2005:            “Cappy Thompson: Glass Vessels for a Dream Voyage,” Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York (solo)

2004:            “Transformed by Fire,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

2002:         “Contemporary Directions,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1998-2000: “American Glass: Masters of the Art,” Smithsonian traveling exhibition, USA

1997:          “Glass Today by American Studio Artists,” Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts

1996:        “Breaking the Mold: New Directions in Glass,” Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama

1995:            “Holding the Past,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

1994:           “World Glass Now ‘94,” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

1992:          “Australian International Crafts Exhibition,” Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

1989-92:   “Craft Today U.S.A.,” American Craft Museum, international touring exhibition

1987:          “Thirty Years of New Glass,” Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

Selected Public Art Commissions

 2019:           Salk Middle School, Spokane, Washington.  Design, fabrication and Installation of 8 painted glass windows.  Commissioned by Washington State Arts Commission in partnership with Spokane School District.

2010: Tukes Valley School, Battle Ground, Washington. Design, fabrication and installation of 2' x 100' frieze of painted windows. Commissioned by Washington State Arts Commission in partnership with Battle Ground School District.

2008:    Covington Library, Covington, Washington.  Design and fabrication of 6’ x

8’ reverse-painted glass mural.  Commissioned by King County Library System.

2006:   The Evergreen State College, Daniel J. Evans Library, Olympia,

Washington.  Design, fabrication and installation of 10’ x 66’ art glass 

window wall.  Commissioned by Washington State Arts Commission. 

Fabricated at Derix Glasstudios, Germany.

2005:     Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama.  Design,

fabrication and installation of art-glass triptych with central 22’ x 10’

arched window and two 12’ x 11’ side window/door surrounds. 

Commissioned by Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.  Fabricated at Derix

Glasstudios, Germany.

2003:    Museum of Glass, Grand Lobby, Tacoma, Washington.  Design, fabrication

and installation of 12’ x 15’ reverse-painted glass mural.  Commissioned 

by Museum of Glass.

2000-03 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, Washington.  Design and

fabrication of 33‘ x 90’ art glass curtain-wall.  Commissioned by Port of

Seattle. Fabricated at Derix Glasstudios, Germany. 

Selected Bibliography

2019              Metaphor into Form: The Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection, by 

Catalani, D-Souza, Hushka and Oldknow, Tacoma Art Museum

2016          Glass Art: 112 Contemporary Artists, by Barbara Purchia & E. Ashley Rooney, Schiffer

2013          Best of the Northwest: Selected Works from Tacoma Art Museum, by Margaret Bullock and Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art Museum

2011         “Collaborative Vitreography,” by Cappy Thompson, Walter Lieberman and Dick Weiss, Glass Art Society 2011 Journal  

2010:           Masters: Blown Glass: Major Works by Leading Artists, by Susan Rossi Wilcox, Lark; Glass Art from the Kiln, by Rene Culler, Schiffer

2006:             500 Glass Objects: A Celebration of Functional and Sculptural Glass, by Susan Keifer (ed.), Lark; 25 Years of New Glass Review, by Tina Oldknow, Corning Museum of Glass

2005:            Dual Vision: The Chazen Collection, by Nancy Preu (ed.), Museum of Arts & Design; “Sea-Tac Public Art Projects: The Glass Commissions,” by David Wagner, Stained Glass Quarterly (Winter)

2003:            International Glass Art, by Richard Yelle, Schiffer

2002:              “Whatever Happened to Stained Glass?” by Geoffrey Wichert, Glass 86 (Spring)

2001:             Contemporary Glass: Color, Light and Form, by Ray Leier, Jan Peters and Kevin Wallace, Guild

1998:              Glass: From the First Mirror to Fiber Optic: The Story of the Substance that Changed the World, by William S. Ellis, Bard

1997:        “Cappy Thompson: Narrative, Mythopoesis and the Vessel Form,” by Shawn Waggoner, Glass Art (January-February)

1996:            Pilchuck: A Glass School, by Tina Oldknow, U. of Washington

1992:              “Cappy Thompson’s Fabled World,” by Ron Glowen, Glass 47 (Spring)

1991:             Out of the Fire: Contemporary Glass Artists and Their Work, by Bonnie Miller, Chronicle; Living with Art, by Rita Gilbert, McGraw-Hill

1989:             Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from the Corning Museum of Glass, by Suzanne Frantz, Harry Abrams

Selected Collections

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

City of Seattle, Seattle, Washington

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington

Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama

Museum of Arts and Design New York, New York

Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Toyama, Japan

Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, Washington

Honors

2005:                         Libensky Award, Pilchuck Glass School

2002, ’09, ‘15:       John Hauberg Fellowship, Pilchuck Glass School

1997:                         Washington Artist Trust Fellowship

1990:                         Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

Other Professional Experience

2016-present    Board of Directors, Pottery Northwest

2011-12:              Board of Directors, Glass Art Society (Auction Chair)

2003-2017:          Artistic Program Advisory Committee, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington

2003-10:            Trustee, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington

1989-92:            Board of Directors, Glass Art Society (Secretary, 1990-92)

1989-present:    Rotating Executive, Sunny Arms Artists Cooperative, Seattle, Washington

1987-present:        Workshop instructor: Bildwerk, Frauenau, Germany; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California; Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia; Centro del Arte Vitro, Monterrey, Mexico; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; International Glass Center, Dudley College, Stourbridge, England; Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida; Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; National Sculpture Factory, Cork Ireland; National College of Arts and Design, Dublin, Ireland; Northlands Creative Glass Center, Lybster, Scotland; Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina; Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington; Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, Washington; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Toyama, Japan; Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York; Wanganui Summer School of the Arts, Wanganui, New Zealand; YaYa, New Orleans, Louisiana; et al.

Education

1976:                         B.A., The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington