Michael Frederick
Dupille
10838 Marine View Dr. S.W.
Seattle, Washington 98146
Ph 206-248-2952
Fax 206-248-6233
e-mail: sunsetgrove1@comcast.com
Bio
Seattle resident Michael Dupille has worked in art his entire career,
as both creator and and educator.
Experienced in a variety of media including animation, illustration,
print, and textile design, he continues to challenge himself through
invention and innovation. Since the late 1980's he has worked extensively
with glass, having developed and refined a technique for 'painting with
glass', using crushed glass in combination kiln fired methods. Michael
is recognized as a pioneer in the field of kiln formed glass, especially
in the area of mold making and kiln casting.
Michael was born in Tacoma, WA (12/3/55) and attended Central Washington
University where he studied glass blowing as part of his art curriculum.
He went on to a career in illustration and design, and created the Avalon
Art School in Tacoma, WA, where he taught a variety of courses. It was
during this period he met Richard LaLonde and Ruth Brockmann who were
starting to work with fused glass. Subsequently, he began doing design
work for Bullseye Glass and was invited by Boyce Lundsrtom to participate
as a guest artist at Camp Colton, a comprehensive glass arts program
outside Portland, Oregon. Michael helped develop many of the kiln fired
techniques published in Lundstrom's glass instruction manuals and he
has also been featured in various professional trade publications.
Dupille has completed numerous commissions, both public and private,
including projects for the Washington State Arts Commission, Oregon
State Arts Commission, The Pierce County Arts Commission,The Everett
Cultural Commission, The Seattle Times, Amazon.com, and the Seattle
Mariners.
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EDUCATION
1989 Camp Colton Glass Program, New Glass Techniques,
Colton, OR
1977-78 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
1976-78 Clover Park Vocational-Technical Institute, Tacoma, WA
1974-76 Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, WA
1970-74 Bellarmine Preparatory School, Tacoma, WA
SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2001 Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA
2000 Adam East Museum and art center, "Baseball as Art", Moses
Lake, WA
2000 Northwest Glass Invitational, Bainbridge Island, WA
2000 Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass, "featured Artist Series", Dallas,
TX
2000 Edison Community College, "Sports 2000" Piqua, OH
1999 Kitrell/Riffkind Art Glass, Dallas, TX
1999 G. Gibson Gallery, "Baseball", Seattle, WA
1997 Seventh Annual Beckett Sports Art Gallery, Dallas TX
1996 Mesolini & Amici, "The Art of Rowing", Seattle, WA
1996 Gallery 53, "Stealing Home", Cooperstown, NY
1996 Anderson/Glover Gallery, "Fire Arts Show", Bellevue, WA
1996 Bellevue Art Museum, "Fifty Years, Fifty Artists" Bellevue, WA
1996 Storyopolis Gallery, "The Boys of Summer" Los Angeles, CA
1996 Anderson/Glover Gallery Invitational, Kirkland, WA
1995 Mickey Mantle's Restaurant & Sports Bar, New York, NY
1995 Gallery 53, "Touching All The Bases", Cooperstown, NY
1995 Tacoma Art Museum, " The Land", Tacoma, WA
1994 Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1994 The Arena Gallery, Edina, MN
1994 The Roland Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1994 Kristopher/Lindsay Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1994 Mesolini & Amici, Seattle, WA
1993 Glass Canvas, St. Petersburg, FL
1992 Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1992 Nicholas Roerich Museum, "Fragments From Another World," NY,NY
1991 Foster/White Gallery at Frederick & Nelson, Seattle, WA
1991 Mercer Island Arts & Crafts Fair, Mercer Island, WA
1991 Susan B. Asia Annual Glass Exhibit, Seattle, WA
1990 Glass Plus Invitational, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Never Before Funded Exhibition, Seattle
1988 V. Brier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 Magnolia Arts & Crafts Fair, Seattle, WA
1986 Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
1985 Art A La Carte, Seattle, WA
1984 Barbara Shaiman Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982 Prinz-Vincent Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981 Tacoma Art Museum, 10th Annual Painting Exhibition, Tacoma, WA
1980 Alternative Gallery, Tacoma, WA
1979 Western Washington State Fair, Juried Exhibition, Puyallup, WA
1977 Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1998 Mesolini & Amici Glass Showroom, "Tools of Ignorance", Seattle,
WA
1997 Mesolini & Amici Glass Showroom, "The Perfect Game", Seattle, WA
1996 Mesolini & Amici Glass Showroom, "Extra Innings" Seattle, WA
1995 Mesolini & Amici Glass Showroom, "Fields That Gleam " Seattle,
WA
1987 Third Street Gallery, Bon Marche, Seattle, WA
1987 Pacific Desserts, Seattle, WA
1986 National Video Shorts Festival, Seattle, WA
1982 Handforth Gallery, Tacoma Public Library, Tacoma, WA
1981 NN Gallery, Seattle, WA
1980 The Alternative Gallery, Tacoma, WA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000 Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass, Dallas, TX
1999 Glass Craft Expo, Las Vegas, NV, Tampa, FL
1999 Clay Art Center, Tacoma, WA
1998 Remann Hall Juvenile Detention Center, Mural Project, Tacoma, WA
1998 Several High School workshops, Including group mural projects at
Gig Harbor and Peninsula High Schools, Gig Harbor, WA
1998 Glass Craft Expo, Las Vegas, NV
1994-present Northwest Art Glass, Redmond, WA
1994 Taller de Arte En Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
1993 Taller de Arte En Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
1990-1993 Camp Colton Glass Program, Colton, OR
1978-1981 Avalon Art School, Tacoma,WA
1975 YMCA Summer Camp, Arts & Crafts Director, Key Center, WA
Numerous individual and group workshops taught locally and nationally,
as well as development and consultation of glass programs at the junior
high, high school and professional levels.
AWARDS & SPECIAL RECOGNITION
2000 Adam East Museum and art center, "Baseball as Art", Moses
Lake, WA, Best of Show, Glass
1997 Beckett Sports publications, annual Exhibition, Dallas, Texas,
Finalist 1992 Pacific Northwest Annual Exhibit, Bellevue Art Museum,
Bellevue, Washington. Juror Award, Glass
1991 Mercer Island Arts and Crafts Fair, Mercer Island, Washington,
Honorable Mention, Glass
1981 Richard Roselle Design Award, Seattle, Washington
1977 Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair, Juried Exhibition, Bellevue,
Washington, First Place, Painting Hellen Baumgardener Memorial Exhibit,
Tacoma, Washington, Third Place, Painting Lakewood Arts & Crafts Fair,
Lakewood, Washington. First Place, Painting
COMMISSIONS & COLLECTIONS
Washington State Arts Commission - Art in Public Places Program
Oregon State Arts Commission
Pierce County Arts Commission, Tacoma, WA
Everett Cultural Commission, Everett, WA
Utah State University
Amazon.com
The Seattle Times
Seattle Art Inc., Seattle, WA
Associated Grocers, Seattle,WA
Access Communications, Seattle, WA
Bullseye Glass Co., Portland, Or
Bing Crosby Historical Society, Tacoma, WA
Devils Tower National Park, WY
Safeco Insurance , Seattle, WA
Leonard Coleman
Seattle Mariners
Sunshine Management, Gig Harbor, WA
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2001 Guest Artist of SGAA national conference; Panel member of kiln
formed glass forum
2001 Created a thirteen piece interior window series for The Sunshine
Management group, Gig Harbor, WA. They are bas relief nature images,
installed in the conference rooms.
1999-00 Commissioned by The Everett Cultural Commission to create a
two sided 7' x 16' fused glass Golf Mural For American Legion Memorial
Golf Course, Everett, WA
1999-00 Commissioned by the pierce county arts commission with Richard
Lalonde to create four exterior fused glass murals in downtown Tacoma
reflecting the theme of wetlands
1998 Created public service awards for the Seattle Mariners player participants
involved with the 'Refuse to Abuse' campaign 1996 Commissioned by the
Pockock Rowing Center to create a series of glass oars to be used as
fund raising tools, Seattle,WA
1993 Guest artist at the factory of Oceanside Glass Tile Co., Carlsbad,
CA
1991-92 A principal artist on a 1% for the Arts project in Portland,
Oregon, with glass artists Ruth Brockmann and Hal Bond, consisting of
two narrative glass murals using cast glass elements with fused glass
backgrounds and tinted concrete. The mural depicts two Northwest Indian
legends about regional geographic landmarks and how they were named.
1992 Official artist for the "Taste of Tacoma"
1990 Official artist and production coordinator for the Glass Art Society
Conference, "Pacific Lip Rap" Seattle, WA
1990 Guest artist-Camp Colton Glass Program
1989 Collaborated with Boyce Lundstrom and Vitreous Publications on
two glass technique books: "Advanced Glass Fusing" and "Glass Casting
and Moldmaking", both published in 1990
1988 Commissioned by the Tacoma Longshoremen's Affiliation to create
artwork for their centennial celebration. Applications included a coin
design, Program, and a granite memorial
1988 Pre-sold location paintings to finance month-long trek to the base
camp of Mt. Everest
1986 Self-published "Washington Wildlife Totem Pole," a Learn and Color
Book, selected as an official product in the Washington State Pavilion
at Expo '86 in Vancouver, BC
1985 Helped develop and structure Island Rhino Studios, Maui, Hawaii,
specializing in limited edition serigraphs.
1978-81 Co-founded Avalon Art School, Tacoma, Washington. Taught design,
watercolor, life drawing and print-making (serigraphy)
Camp Colton Glass Program, Colton, OR
Tacoma Longshoremen, Tacoma, WA
George and Jane Russell, Tacoma, WA
Mountain Madness, Seattle, WA
Hal F. Lewis, Memphis, TN
Pocock Rowing Center, Seattle, WA
Theodore M. Baer, D.D.S., Tacoma, WA
Seattle Aquarium, Seattle, WA
Jungle Jim's Inc., Seattle, WA
Phil Smart Mercedes, Seattle, WA
Gary Weitzman, D.V.M., Burlingame, CA
Frank & Charlene Blethen, Seattle, WA
John and Nini Laube, Seattle, WA
Medallic Art Company, Dayton, NV
Richard and Jileen Russell, Seattle, WA
