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Debora Moore, Seattle artist working in glass. “Arboria” show at Tacoma Art Museum, January 2019 - January 2020, Tacoma, WA.
Debora Moore has explored the expressive potential of flora and fauna through glass since the late 1980s. For years she mastered the craft of fabricating delicate sculptures of orchids in an array of colors and textures.
Debora Moore (born 1960, St. Louis, Missouri) is a contemporary glass artist. She is best known for her glass orchids.
Debora Moore (b. 1960, resides Seattle), is best known for her exquisitely detailed glass renderings of orchids, to which she devoted her practice from the mid-1990s until recently.
A trailblazer in many ways, Moore was the first female and first African American resident at the storied Abate Zanetti on Murano, the Italian island that became a glass powerhouse starting in the thirteenth century.
Most recently she was awarded an artist residency at the Niijima Glass Center in Niijima, Japan for the 27th Annual Glass Festival. She has researched moss and lichen in Antarctica, observed orchids in tropical rainforests in Asia, examining how these plants live in their natural environment.
Debora Moore, American born 1960. Professional Experience. 1994-present Fiori Studio, owner, Seattle, WA. 2015 Nijima International Glass Art Festival, artist - in - residence. 2008-2011 Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA, Board of Trustees. 2005 Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, artist-in-residence.
May 21, 2015 · Biodiversity reigns in Seattle glassblowing artist Debora Moore’s exhibit, “Glass Orchidarium,” up through Nov. 8 at the Northwest African American Museum.
Moore started working in glass in the late 1980s at Pratt Fine Arts Center. Moore served as instructor at Pratt, the Hilltop Glass Program in Tacoma, and the Pilchuck Glass School. In 2005, Moore was artist-in-residence at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma and the Abate Zanetti in Murano, Italy.
Her solo exhibition, Natural Reflections, opened in 2005 at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, followed by a residency at the Museum. In 2005, she was also awarded artist-in-residence at the Abate Zanetti School in Murano, Italy.
