Dec 17
by Kait Rhoads in Aquatic, Foliage Flora 0 comments

Ode to Bull Kelp

Form: Sculpture Year Created: 2025 Dimension 56″ x 14″ x 2.5″ Description: Blown glass, engraved with community sourced words in admiration of Kelp, sisal rope, waxed nylon and stainless steel. The words read from left to right: Heal; Steadfast; Forest; Fluid; and Home.  
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Jul 02
by Kait Rhoads in Foliage Flora 0 comments

Protect Me I, II and III

Collaboration with Rachel Moore Form: Wall Panel Year Created: 2025 Dimension: 14.5”h x  w10.5”w x 2.5”d I Description: Enameled and sandblasted beveled plate glass, water jet cut and slumped opaque moss green, white and transparent yellow and opaque moss green flat glass, fire polished blown glass ‘rigatoni’, copper wire, Coral, Ceramic, Labradorite and Citrine beads. II Description: Enameled and sandblasted beveled plate glass, water jet cut and slumped opaque moss green, white and transparent ridged privacy flat glass, fire polished blown glass ‘rigatoni’, copper wire, white Turquoise and Jade, Crystal, Phyolite, Labradorite and Citrine beads. III Description: Enameled and sandblasted beveled plate glass, water jet cut and slumped translucent pink and gray flat glass and transparent rabbit skin glue flat glass, fire polished blown glass ‘rigatoni’, copper wire, white Turquoise, Strawberry quartz, Crystal, garnet and Labradorite beads.
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Nov 03
by Kait Rhoads in Aquatic, Foliage Flora, Installation 0 comments

Proto Kelp

Form: Installation Year Created: 2024 Dimension 13′ x 15′ x 6′ Description: Blown glass, engraved with community sourced words in admiration of Kelp, sisal rope and waxed linen. More information on Proto Kelp
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Oct 08
by Kait Rhoads in Aquatic, Foliage Flora 0 comments

Reach

Form: Sculpture Year Created: 2024 Dimension 18.5” x 18” x 3” Description: Stainless Steel, Japanese silk, waxed nylon, blown glass, engraved with community sourced words in admiration of Kelp.
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Oct 03
by Kait Rhoads in Aquatic, Foliage Flora 0 comments

Proto Kelp Forest

Year Created: 2022 Dimension 11” x 7.5” x 9” Description: Green and gold blown glass tubing segments, linked together by copper wire.
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Sep 14
by Kait Rhoads in Aquatic, Foliage Flora, Hollow Murrine 0 comments

Kelp (Dictyoneuropsis)

Form: Soft Sculpture Year Created: 2005 Dimension: 62″ x 17″ x 14″ Description: Blown glass, brown, green and yellow hollow murrine woven together with copper wire, steel mounting rods hold the work to the wall. Video of Hollow Murrine Process
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Feb 07
by Kait Rhoads in Aquatic, Foliage Flora 0 comments

Diatom Screen

Form: Stained Glass Year Created: 2022 Dimension Tall Panel : 27” x 71” x 3” Wide Panel: 45” x 45.5” x 3” Description: Collaboration with artist Dick Weiss. Kait created the rondells at Wheaton Arts, Milleville, NJ. Clear, white, transparent green and blue blown glass rondells; transparent green over white duro cane used to draw on the glass as well as bundled to create granulare murrine. Stained glass leading, flat glass and wooden frame by artist Dick Weiss The composition of the murrine on the rondells is inspired by the artist’s observation of diatoms and plankton through a microscope.
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Dec 10
by Kait Rhoads in Aquatic, Foliage Flora, Installation 0 comments

Bloom

Form: Soft Sculpture Year Created: 2018 installed 2022 Dimension: 7ft  x 4ft x 5ft and the stipe, pneumatocyst or bladder and the holdfast are 14ft x 6in. Description: Blown glass, into steel molds, pulled out into tubing, cut, heated in a kiln, woven together with copper wire into a silicon bronze frame work (kelp blades). This sculpture depicts Nereocystis, or Bull Kelp/ with the holdfast and a single stipe, topped with a pneumatocyst and blades. It is a local Pacific Northwest algae. In the collection of ArtsWA  in the Health and Life Science Building at Highline College, Des Moines WA. Video of Hollow Murrine Process Short video of instillation of Bloom in the Biology Department at Highline College.
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Sep 05
by Kait Rhoads in Aquatic, Foliage Flora, Hollow Murrine 0 comments

Blue Kelp II

Form: Soft Sculpture Year Created: 2021 Dimension 17.5” x 13” x 9” Description: Blown glass, cobalt and aqua blue hollow murrine woven onto silicon bronze armature with copper wire. Video of Hollow Murrine Process
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May 08
by Kait Rhoads in Air Plumage, Aquatic, Foliage Flora, Hollow Murrine 0 comments

Arabesque

Form: Soft Sculpture Year Created: 2020 Dimension 31” x 33” x 9” Description: Blown glass, turquoise and green hollow murrine woven onto stainless `steel support structures with copper wire. Video of Hollow Murrine Process
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