Beauty Beyond Nature: The Glass Art of Paul Stankard
Date:
Apr 1, 2026,
(all day)
Duration -
275 days
Location - Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Paul Stankard’s evolution from scientific glassblower to small-scale sculptor is documented in more than 60 works gifted to Museum of Glass’s Permanent Collection from the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation Collection that span more than four decades. The work gathered into the exhibition Beauty Beyond Nature tells the remarkable story of a scientific glassblower who began experimenting with the paperweight form in 1969 and, within a decade, took those botanical forms encased in clear glass to new levels of technical virtuosity and expressive achievement.
