Dan Friday in the Hotspot

Visiting Artist Dan Friday will be in the Hot Shop for Glass Fest Northwest!

Friday is a member of the Lummi Nation and a Skagit Valley-based artist. Drawing from cultural themes and using modern processes, Friday’s work is contemporary in format while maintaining basic Native American qualities. He has spent the past two decades working with artists such as Dale Chihuly, Paul Marioni, and Preston Singletary. In 2017, Dan started the Native Youth Outreach Program at Pilchuck Glass School.

He has had residencies at Museum of Glass, the Burke Museum in Seattle, WA, the Corning Museum (NY), Penland Craft School (NC), Chrysler Museum (Norfolk, VA), Torunga Wai Wai Gisborne (New Zealand), Te Atinga Wai Kato (New Zealand), and the Dream Community in Tai Pei, Taiwan.

Friday has been awarded the BIMA Award From Bainbridge Museum of Art, Bill Holm Grant, the People’s Choice Award from the Bellevue Art Museum, The James Earl Fraser Award from the Prix De West at the National Western Museum, an Artist Trust Fellowship, and the Discovery Fellowship through (SWAIA) the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts.

Friday was a contestant on the Netfilx show Blown Away.

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