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DECEMBER 14, 2022
VOL. 103, NO. 47
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Queen Anne artist shines with glass work
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By Laura Marie Rivera Contributing writer
Queen Anne resident Edgar Valentine is an up-and-coming 27-year-old glass artist whose first claim to fame came when he competed on the first season of “Blown Away,” the glass-blowing competition series on Netflix. Valentine was only 23 when the series was filmed, and he said it was a real whirlwind to participate in a reality TV competition. A friend first sent him the link and said he should apply for the show. He had originally ignored it and thought it was a scam. It wasn’t until several other people suggested he apply and he saw a coworker doing it that he decided to go for it. One month later, he had his first interview and things moved quickly from there. But he said it didn’t seem real until he travelled to Canada and stepped onto the set to see everything. “It was a huge studio and a surprise to meet the other artists in person,” he said. Valentine said it was challenging to blow glass and make art in that television competition setting, but he ultimately had a lot of fun. Valentine grew up in Tacoma and had his first experience with glass when he was just 12 years old with Hilltop Artists, an arts nonprofit that provides tuition-free glass instruction and mentorship to youth ages 12 to 26. According to the website, their mission is “Using glass art to connect young
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QA & Magnolia News editor A Queen Anne boy treated residents in the neighborhood to extra holiday cheer Friday at the annual tree-lighting ceremony by setting up a model train around the decorated tree in front of Trader Joe’s on Queen Anne Hill. Max Chandrasekaran, 11, said he enjoys going to the annual tree-lighting ceremony, hosted by the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce, and seeing friends and neighbors. “It’s always so nice how the neighborhood comes together, especially during the holiday times,” he said. Max, a model train enthusiast, said he came up with the idea of contributing to the holiday cheer
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Photo by Laura Maria Rivera Edgar Valentine hangs glass ornaments on a tree featuring his work at Seattle Glassblowing Studio, where he works and teaches. people from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds to better futures.” His first class was using the torch to make beads and doing what’s called lamp working. The next semester he made it to the floor of the hot shop and has not looked back. Soon enough, Valentine started commuting to Seattle to take some courses at Pratt Fine Arts Center. After high school, he headed to Colorado State-Pueblo on
a lacrosse scholarship. He said Colorado was beautiful, but he decided that college was not for him. At age 19, Valentine came back to the Pacific Northwest and found his way to the famed Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Wash. Valentine describes his ongoing experience at Pilchuck as an amazing opportunity to
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Local boy shares love of model trains with Queen Anne at tree lighting By Jessica Keller
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by setting up a model train around the tree while on a walk with a family friend. After posing his idea to a member of the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce, and receiving the chamber’s blessing, Max said he and his dad, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, set about making it happen. Their plan, however, was almost derailed a few times during the entire project, after they encountered a number of setbacks. First, Max discovered he didn’t have enough track to encircle the Christmas tree, so he set about acquiring more by asking various model train businesses if they would donate some to his cause. A business in Burien answered the call, donating the curved tracks,
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Photo by Jessica Keller A delighted Max Chandrasekaran, 11, grins as the model train he set up around the Christmas tree set up in front of Trader Joe’s on the top of Queen Anne hill successfully rounds the tracks in a test run before the annual tree-lighting ceremony, sponsored by the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce, Friday night.
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