Red Hot Auction & Gala
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Please join us to celebrate our story and write the Museum’s next chapter together.
Details
Date and Time: September 20, 2025 | 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Glass | 1801 Dock Street | Tacoma, WA 98402
Attire: Black tie optional
RSVP: Please RSVP to Lindsay Carlisle by September 3 at lcarlisle@museumofglass.org or 253.284.4708
Schedule
5:30pm: Check-In Opens • Cocktail Reception • Silent Auction
6:30pm: Dinner • Program • Live Auction
9:00pm: After Party with Featured Artist David Walters
The Red Hot Auction & Gala is the Museum’s largest fundraiser of the year and an unforgettable gathering in support of glass programing and artists. We hope to see you there!
Not able to join us in person?
You can still donate, purchase our 2025 Signature Goblets and Decanters, or bid in our Silent Auction!
Goblets and Decanters will go on sale September 8 and the Silent Auction will open on September 15. Click below to register.
After Party Featured Artist: David Walters
David Walters was born in Central Pennsylvania in 1968 and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1989-93. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, he moved to Seattle to work for Dale Chihuly and many highly regarded artists in the Puget Sound area and beyond. He has worked most closely with the maestro Lino Tagliapietra over the past 26 years. David has been traveling teaching and demonstrating nationally and internationally for the past 18 years. David began using glass enamels in his work during a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America in 1995 and again in 2004. His work has been included in many distinguished private collections and several museum collections as well. He uses the forms he creates to serve as a reference, as well as a virtual canvas, to the stories he illustrates on them. His incorporation of sound fundamental glass skills with a less than conventional approach to vessel making has enabled him to create a series of interesting and original forms on which to paint. David works mostly with characters from fairy tales and children’s stories, primarily for their familiar associations. He tries to incorporate into these cautionary tales a sense of his own history or personal experience in an effort to give them a more contemporary and personal relevance.
A look back at Red Hot 2024
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors!
Museum of Glass is immensely grateful to you all for fueling this evening and for your ongoing support of our mission to ignite creativity, fuel discovery, and enrich lives through glass and glassmaking. Thank you for investing in the arts and in your community.
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