Cast glass

you will find a giant revolving glass sphere in Carol’s studio which she created during a 2019 residency at Amazon Headquarters as well as a grouping of glass hands that are literally knitting themselves, an Escher-like contemplation on "What does it mean to become your own mentor?"

There will be work in progress, finished works and work for sale.

I work in knitted glass. I see it as a metaphor for the grass roots of social structure and the strength of community. An individual strand, weak and brittle on its own, becomes deceptively strong when formed into stitches and knitted together. You can crack or break single threads without the whole falling apart. And even when the structure is broken, pieces remain bound together. Just like our social fabric, the connections are what bring strength and integrity to the whole and what keeps it intact.

Using glass as a metaphor to “knit us together” seems like a contradiction in terms. Glass is vibrantly beautiful, but also highly breakable and easily destroyed. As it turns out, democracy is also fragile. It takes work to create a system or structure and very little work with a well-placed hammer to bring it down. Knitted glass focuses attention on the beauty of connection and the need to guard and protect that fragile beauty.

Carol has eight-foot tall illuminated tentacles in her yard!

Carol Milne was born in Canada and spent her first 18 years at 18 different addresses in Canada, the US and Germany. She received a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Guelph, Canada and attended graduate school in sculpture at the University of Iowa. In 2000 Carol took her first glass class at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle and the dye was cast. She has taught and exhibited work internationally and has work in many museum collections.

"Lost Wax" — You might be wondering: What is it? Where does it go?

Carol creates work in cast glass using the Lost Wax casting technique. Come find out what that is, and learn about the many steps involved in creating work using this method.

Parking is available in Carol’s driveway. There is no street parking directly in front of her home and studio, but you can park on 135th or 137th streets and walk over.

Carol’s studio is on the ground level and is wheelchair accessible.