Cappy Thompson

Cappy Thompson received her bachelor of arts in 1976 from The Evergreen State College, Olympia, in painting and printmaking; she began working with glass in 1975. Thompson has taught at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She has exhibited her work across the United States and in British Columbia and Japan, including as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibition "American Glass: Masters of the Art", from 1998 to 2000, and "Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection" at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, in 2002.

Her work can be found in numerous collections, including the Corning Glass Museum, Corning, New York; the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Arts and Design), New York City; the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan. She also has created a number of site-specific installations around Seattle.