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Tim Tate is co-founder of the Washington Glass School, an institution dedicated to sculptural expression located in Mt. Rainier, Maryland. He has shown nationally and beyond since the 1990’s, including at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, SOFA New York and Chicago, Art Basel Scope in Switzerland, Art Miami at Art Basel-Miami, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Renwick Gallery, the Hermitage State Museum and commercial galleries from Washington, DC to London and Berlin.

Tate was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Sunderland, England in 2012. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, the Mint Museum, the Fuller Museum, the Katzen Art Center of American University, the Milwaukee Art Museum and Vanderbilt University.

Tate has spoken at Yale University on Glass and Conflict, detailing his own activism through glass. He has participated in Glasstress 2019 at the Venice Biennale, 2021 at the Boca Raton Museum and the Glasstress at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. He and William Warmus are also co-administrators and founders of the discussion group “21st Century Glass."