by Sara Sally LaGrand

Photos by Pete Duvall

Warm glass artist Tim Tate has a gigantic list of accomplishments including being the cofounder of the Washington Glass School, the second largest warm glass studio in the U.S. with fellow artist Michael Janis plus creating an enormous body of work he has exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world. His current body of work chronicles the struggle of the LGBTQ community to find acceptance in an ever increasingly hostile world.