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Fused Together Community Workshops

Banner image for Fused Together with logos for Hilltop Artists, Kait Rhodes, City of Tacoma, Tacoma Creates, Tacoma Public Library

What is Fused Together?

Close up image of an unfired fusion piece made at Fused Together workshops.Fused Together community workshops bring together Hilltop Artists with artist Kait Rhoads to engage the public in environmental advocacy and glass art. This program is offered for free at Tacoma Public Libraries thanks to funding by Tacoma Creates. Together with you, we are creating public art that will be installed across Tacoma to celebrate marine life and help raise awareness about the impacts of pollution.

Create your own fused glass tile and contributing to a collaborative art project in a family-friendly activity suitable for ages 8 and older. Visit our events page to see a full list of upcoming Fused Together workshops.

Library Installations

Fused Together is looking forward to when images of these windows are to be turned into utility box wraps, and installed on two water quality testing utility boxes in Tacoma – thanks to the Tacoma Environmental Services and City Of Tacoma Arts & Cultural Vitality Division.

Photograph of finished Fused Together installations at South Tacoma and Moore libraries
Photograph of finished Fused Together installations at South Tacoma library
Photograph of finished Fused Together installations at the Moore library
Photograph of finished Fused Together installations at the Moore library
Photograph of fused together installation at Moore branch library
Photograph of finished Fused Together installations at South Tacoma and Moore libraries
Photograph of finished Fused Together installations at South Tacoma library
Photograph of finished Fused Together installations at the Moore library
Photograph of finished Fused Together installations at the Moore library
Photograph of fused together installation at Moore branch library

About Artist Kait Rhoads

Kait Rhoads is a Seattle glass and fiber artist who works with public art as a tool to create awareness around ocean/water ecology. She is honored to take part in Fused Together, an opportunity to invest in Tacoma’s community connection to art and the Salish Sea.

Image of Fused Together workshop artist, Kait RhoadsKait is the lead artist of Fused Together; she facilitates the creation of the individual tiles of glass with the community and organizes their journey to finished public artwork. On this journey is another Seattle artist, Dick Weiss, who turns the glass tiles into beautiful stained glass works of art that will be displayed in Tacoma Libraries. Images of the stained-glass windows will be used as a wrap for a few of City of Tacoma’s water quality testing utility boxes, upcoming in 2024.

Workshops & More

Want to find more ways to get involved in a Fused Together workshop? Visit our events calendar page to see a full schedule of all of our upcoming workshops.