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Artist: Steve Tagg
Contact Steve at:
616.481.2624
The Steve Tagg Studio
West Olive Michigan
Art Studio and Architectural Stained Glass
Since 1999
Artist’s Biography
Art And Glass Experience:
Full-time Artist and Glass Professional 1999 to present
Glass work part-time 1982 – 1999
Steve’s interest in glass began in 1982. For 17 years, he made stained glass his hobby.
After entering and winning regional stained glass competitons, his reputation as a stained glass artist grew.
In 1999, he pursued his passion for glass full time. His hobby then became the study of fine art. This led him
to discover techniques where he has combined fine art with glass.
He calls this new form of art a GlasScape TM. A GlasScape uses glass and the concepts of
two-dimensional landscape art. Steve works out the ideas of his image for his landscapes in other mediums,
such as pastels or charcoal, to refine the composition, color and color values. Then using glass as his canvas,
Steve applies additional layers of glass with tools he has made and kiln fires the glass many times creating
layers of glass and texture to the art. This is how Steve’s passion for glass and his vision for art becomes the
finished dimensional fused glass landscape known as a GlasScape TM.
Some exhibitions and awards have included:
Purchase Award, Royal Oak Clay and Glass Show, Royal Oak Michigan. June 2007
1st Place Tarpon Strings Art Association, Tarpon Springs, Florida. April Show 2007
Lowell Area Arts Council First ever Glass Show “Studio Glass – West Michigan Style” Sept/Oct 2007.
Invitation to Wells Street Art Fair Chicago Il June 2007
Invitation to St James Court Art Fair, Belgravia section, Louisville Ky. October. 2007
Invitational exhibitor Alden B Dow Museum of Science and Art Midland, Michigan June, 2006
Gallery Uptown Grand Haven MI 40 piece Show November 2005
Honorable Mention Lakeland artist Spring Show 2005 “Dune” pastel painting
Peoples Choice Award July 2004, Art on the riverfront, Grand Haven
Celebration Juried Art Competition First United Methodist Church
Grand Rapids MI March, 2004
Dances With Fish, a sailboat with glass sails earned the most money
of all entries for Muskegon Community College Arts and Humanities
department fund-raiser 2003
Instructor exhibitor featuring the glass art works of my students
January 2004 Gallery Uptown Grand Haven MI.
Celebration Juried Art Competition First United Methodist Church
Grand Rapids MI Fourth Place Award March 2003
Winter festival Gallery Uptown Grand Haven MI honorable mention 2003
Muskegon Museum of Art Gift Shop, exhibitor 2000 to 2003
Frame and Mat Shop of Holland and Grand Haven, exhibitor 2000 to 2002
Waterfront Invitational Art Fair, Saugatuck, exhibitor 2003
Pentwater juried art fair, exhibitor 2003
On the Grand, juried art fair Grand Rapids, exhibitor 2003
Art on the River, Grand Haven, exhibitor 2003
Stained Glass Place, glass art competition 2nd Place 1996
Stained Glass Place, glass art competition 1st Place 1997
Lectures and Presentations
Muskegon Art Museum “Path to Discovery” Exploring Glass
as an art medium in April 2006
Van Andel Museum Grand Rapids MI Glass through the ages 2005
Lakeland Artists, “Path to Discovery" Exploring Glass as an
art medium in November 2004
Ottawa County Intermediate Schools presentation on Glass in the
classroom for K-12 art teachers in February 2003
Art and Glass Instructor and workshop leader 1999 to present
Some activities are:
Workshop Instructor, Art Techniques Day for Teachers
Ottawa county Intermediate School District, Stained glass and
fussed glass in February 2004
Demonstrator, computerized pattern design software,
Delphi Stained Glass,
Lansing MI
Beginning /Advanced foil and lead came glass classes,
The Stained Glass Place, Grand Rapids MI
Lead came for professionals and hobbyists at
Glass Reflections, Muskegon MI
Beginning foil stained glass class for Grand Rapids Public Schools
Beginning foil stained glass class for Coopersville Public Schools
Beginning foil stained glass class for Grand Haven Area Arts Council
Beginning, Intermediate and advanced glass classes at my studio in
West Olive MI in foil and solder, lead came, fusing, and etching techniques
Education and Training:
BS Degree, Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor MI. 1996
Robert Micherhuizen Drawing and Fine Art Study, October 2004 to present
Larry Blovits Color Workshop July 2005
Diane VanNord Composition workshop July 2005
Bill Hanson Pastel workshop August 2005
Jim Markel Pastel painting Spring 2005 and fall 2004
Howard Garet pastel painting Fall 2004
Howard Garet pastel painting Fall 2003 winter 2004
Colin Fry pastel painting 2003 -2004
Howard Garet watercolor painting class 2003
Kevin Meyer oil painting class 2002
Ed Hoy’s International workshops in fusing glass 1999 and 2003,
painting glass 2002, and etching glass 2003
Gloria Badner Arts and Artifacts Studio, glass-fusing workshop 2000
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