BARBARA KLEIN: Making these hearts is not easy. Tate works with a team of glass artists at a studio in the state of North Carolina.
"Sacred Heart of Healing" by Tim Tate is at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Tim Tate is also the director of the Washington Glass School. He says he loves teaching glass skills to students because he learns so much from them. And, he likes to work near the other glass artists in the school because they can exchange ideas and methods.
Tate first became interested in glass by watching glassblowers as a young child. As an adult, he developed his love of glass making for very different reasons.
TIM TATE: “When I was just a small kid I went to Corning Glass works and watched the glass blowers there and was really mesmerized by that…And then, years ago when I first found out that I was HIV positive, my initial reason for doing glass was I wanted to leave one glass vase for my nephew and nieces to remember their uncle by. My initial reason was a sense of legacy.”
“And then, I kept living and twenty-three years later, I am in many museums around the world… I just got good at it, because I knew I had to hurry because I was supposed to die.”
STEVE EMBER: Tim Tate makes glass that is meant to be sculptural. He says the message in his work is usually about healing.
Tim Tate in front of several of his glass artworks
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