![Tim Tate is co-founder of the Washington Glass School located in Mt. Ranier MD. He has shown nationally and beyond since the 1990’s, including the Museum of Arts and Design […]](http://tedxwdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ttate1.jpg "Tim Tate")
Tim Tate is co-founder of the Washington Glass School located in Mt. Ranier MD. He has shown nationally and beyond since the 1990’s, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, SOFA New York and Chicago, Art Basel Scope in Switzerland, the Red Dot at Art Basel-Miami, the Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian, the Renwick Gallery and commercial galleries from Washington, DC to London and Berlin.
His awards include “Rising Star of the 21st Century” from the Museum of American Glass, the Virginia Groot Foundation Award for Sculpture, three Artists Fellowship awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Mayor’s Art Award. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, the Mint Museum, the Fuller Museum, the Katzen Art Center of American University, the Milwaukee Art Museum and Vanderbilt University. He has a current solo video show at the Taubman Museum in Roanoke, Va. He will also have a large scale video installation at the Katzen Center at American University next year.