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Professional Experience
For over 30 years, Robert Adamson has pursued a love of handblown glass, turning his vision of glassmaking into a highly successful studio and training ground for young glass artists in the Pacific Northwest. Founding the nationally known art glass company, Glass Eye Studio in 1978, he sold the company in 1989. He continued to direct Glass Eye Studio design of over 120 products annually until 2000. In 1997 he finished construction of his own glass facility on Whidbey Island, WA. Here Robert is producing a line of art glass for the American craft market, and explores sculptural directions in contemporary art glass.
1989-2000
Vice President, Designer for Glass Eye Studio, Inc., Seattle WA
-Designer and Production Director of new glass, catalogs, photography.
-Responsible for over 120 new product designs annually.
1978-1988
Founder, President of Glass Eye Studio, Inc. & Glass Eye Gallery, Inc.
Seattle, WA
-Production facility for handblown art glass.
-Retail art glass gallery.
1977
Manager, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
Consulting Manager, Genesis Glass Co., Portland, OR
Board Member, Glass Art Society
1975-1976
Assistant Director, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA.
Consulting Manager, Genesis Glass Co., Portland, OR
Board Member, Glass Art Society
Member, Pacific Northwest Arts Council
Recipient, Washington State Arts Foundation Grant
1974
Technical Director, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA.
Co-Founder, Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Seattle, WA
-Instructor, glassblowing.
1972-1973
Program Manager, Seattle School District, AES #1
Instructor, glassblowing, Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Seattle, WA
Selected Exhibitions
1994 - Present
Museo Gallery, Langley, WA
Traver Gallery, Pilchuck Group Show, Seattle, WA
1993
Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI
1976
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA
Glass Art Society, Seattle, WA
Corning Museum, Corning, NY
1975
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
Penryn Gallery, Seattle, WA
Artists Gallery, Seattle, WA
1974
Pacific Northwest Arts Center, Seattle, WA
1973
Sacramento Arts Festival, Sacramento, CA
Pacific Northwest Arts Center, Seattle, WA
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