Gallery Tour Tonight with Owen Pach

Gallery Talk with Glass Artist Owen Pach

You're invited to tour the special exhibit and hear stories from Owen Pach tonight at 6 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts in downtown St. Petersburg.

Pach will share life experiences, stories and interactions with other artists that are featured in the exhibition.

Admission is $10 after 5 p.m. and includes the tour by Pach. There will be a cash bar and if you take your receipt to Parkshore Grill or 400 Beach Seafood & Tap House, you'll receive 10% off your dinner.

The Museum of Fine Arts is located at 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg. For more information call (727) 896-2667.

Gallery Talk in September:

If you can't make it tonight, don't worry, Pach is taking part in another gallery talk on Sunday, Sept. 9 at 2:30 p.m. This event is titled, "History of American Glass Movement and Gallery Talk with Owen Pach." The introductory lecture and gallery talk will be included with admission.

About "Global + Local:"

With more than 100 works, this exhibition is one of the most diverse art glass exhibitions ever presented at the Museum. The works are international in scope and are bursting with color and daring. This is art glass at its most magical.

All of the works, except for two, are from Pinellas County collections, including the Museum’s own. Global + Local conveys St. Petersburg’s emergence as a center for art glass and includes objects by talented area artists Duncan McClellan, Owen Pach, Chuck Boux, and Susan Gott. Marlene Rose’s Eternity Relic (2012), a timeless totem, is 10½ feet tall and is in front of the Museum on Beach Drive, serving as a beacon for the exhibition. This is the first time a glass sculpture has been placed on the MFA grounds.

Eighty-six artists are represented, including choice works by studio glass pioneers like Harvey Littleton and Dale Chihuly. A wide array of other objects are by such internationally respected artists as Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg, Sonja Blomdahl, Dante Marioni, William Morris, Yoichi Ohira, Stephen Rolfe Powell, Richard Ritter, Judith Schaechter, Preston Singletary, Lino Tagliapietra, Bertil Vallien, and Toots Zynsky. Recent Museum acquisitions of important works by Therman Statom and Michael Glancy are also on view. Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin curated the exhibition.