Brief History
Est. 1975 With the name of Homestead Stained Glass north of Bothell, in a small red barn on the family farm. (Many still remember the pig banging on the barn yard door while trying to talk glass.
1977 opened a retail store and taught classes in Juanita, only to find out that our work was too time consuming and important to us. Therefore, we escaped back to the farm after a year and into a bigger barn.
1978-1984 serving clients inthe Northwest - builders and individual. Also expanding to custom pieces shipped to Alaska, Florida, Canada, California, Midwest, Southwest, and Japan.
1985-1993 Seattle Street of Dreams - entries and custom interior pieces in three to four award winning homes each year. Then grew tired with the politics of that venue.
1985 First year at Seattle Homeshow
1986 merged with Beveling Studio and began another growth spurt. Became Sundance Art Glass.
1987 moved our business out of the barns and into the Totemlake area. Grew to fifteen employees and enjoyed many new customers every year. We featured custom bevel work, hand made in our studio, unlike any other studio in the Northwest.
1991 opened a showroom in downtown Kirkland, while continuing the fabrication studio in Totemlake. At this time we also planned personally to move our family to the Leavenworth area.
1992 sold Sundance Art Glass, and started Silvermoon Studio getting back to basics - just Steve and Teri -with a lot of help from our daughters. Our studio was already established in the Plain Valley , outside of Leavenworth
1996 continuing to do art glass in the Northwest, Alaska, Canada, but offering the more personal touch we started with in 1975. Sand Carvings with organic edge work has become a prominent feature in our work.
1997 -1999 Working with large Sand Carved pieces - bending glass, adding metal, wood , stone and other natural products to enhance and highlight the sculpted glass. With the desire to make a stronger statement about our surroundings, we began looking for worthy causes to suppport through the sale of our pieces. We also began adding the element of water to flow over the glass, along with fiber optic lighting.
2000-2004- Becoming very involved with Water features - Built in and art niche sizes. Commissions continue to take us to interesting places. We have focused more on smaller gallery sculptures and dimensional pieces. A large custom leaded glass commission in Japan using the highest quality handblown glass has been our recent endeavor.
ARTIST'S STATEMENTS
Teri Zimmerman
Art education never happened for me in the form of a traditional classroom. I have come to realize that my inherited traits and the surrounding of creative adults as I grew up, along with my curiosity and wide open eyes were my training. With a strong desire to earn a living in the field of art and raise a family, I needed to push myself beyond my knowledge. There are no limitations when it comes to the strength of your imagination. Commission work for the past 27 years has been a driving force and enabled me to study and research styles, architecture, and nature and well as meet some incredible people. Art has taken me to places that I would have never beeen both physically and mentally. Art is basic to life itself.
Steve Zimmerman
I’ll have to admit up front that showing my artistic side was not a natural happening for me. Thanks to the patience of my trade and those around me, I have been able to apply all of my practical and life knowledge for the past 30 years - doing it the hard way-my way. I am really having fun with my acquired talents - working hard, being the inventor, perfectionist. This is not hard for me...growing into being an artist was. I hope that everyone enjoys what my wife, Teri and I are creating these days. We truly enjoy it.
Amber Zimmerman
Glass is a natural and familiar medium to work with for me because I have grown up in a glass art environment. I have always had a passion for art in all forms and continued to study it in depth at The Evergreen State College. In the year 2000, I graduated with a B.A in sculpture. I have also taken several advanced courses on glass blowing, fusing, and glass casting through the years. After graduating from Evergreen I have worked with my family in the glass studio at various levels - doing all aspects of glass art. In addition to this type of work, I also paint, draw, and sculpt. I create thematic images that are symbolic representations of mother nature. I have a strong passion for native plants and trees so it is natural to combine my love of the outdoors with my love of art.
General Statement
Life and art partners, Steve and Teri Zimmerman have always pushed the limits when it comes to art in glass. Teri is the "artist, dreamer, and sand carver" part of the pair. Steve is the "inventor, technician, and craftsmen." Together we have designed and installed pieces throughout the US, Canada, and Japan - both in flatwork and sculpted dimensional thick carved glass.
In the past, we have been very broad in our work with glass. Now we are focusing on our passions and our statements while still designing for personal commission. We are currently involved with environmentally worthy causes and fund raising through art to help give back a little of what we all take in everyday.
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