In conjunction with PNW glass festival Refract, Mini Mart City Park is pleased to host Sue Kim and Zeke Spier for a flameworking demonstration in our main gallery space. Kim and Spier are partners and glassblowers living in Burien, WA who collaborate in both flameworking and hot shop glass blowing. They are inspired by the unseen and lesser understood parts of natural systems along with the material itself. They love glass and strive to make objects that capture its fluid and optical qualities.

Pratt Fine Arts Center is their third place. They both learned glassblowing there and now teach a borosilicate cup-making workshop when they’re not in the hot shop. They have also studied at Pilchuck Glass School and their work can be found at boutiques around Seattle and the Museum of Glass gift shop.

Their demonstration will take place in the main gallery space where Kim and Spier will showcase some of their more botanical motifs consistent in their respective practices. This demonstration compliments Mini Mart City Park’s current exhibition of photographs on glass by local artist, Winifred Westergard on view through Nov 16, 2025.