Exhibiting works by Northwest glass artists alongside selected works from their personal art collections is an intriguing concept for an art exhibition. This is what you can find in the Northwest Artists Collect exhibition at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. Seven favorite regional glass artists are shown with works from their collections. The artists are: Joseph Gregory Rossano, Richard Royal, Ginny Ruffner, Dick Weiss, Martin Blank, Preston Singletary, and Cappy Thompson.

Thompson's "The Courtship of the Sun and the Moon" is an enamel-on-glass illustration of an anthropomorphized sun and moon kissing while being watched over by what may be a pair of angels. Stylistically it seems to borrow from medieval illustrated manuscripts and from the art of India. I thought it must have been an illustration from an ancient myth, but when I Googled it the only thing I could find was information on a French film from 1907 described on Wikipedia as homoerotic. In Thompsons picture the (heterosexual) lovers find themselves in a dense jungle. The colors are rich. It's a beautiful piece.

Read Alec Clayton's full review of "Northwest Artists Collect" in Northwest Military's Music & Culture section.

"NORTHWEST ARTISTS COLLECT," through Oct. 31, Museum of Glass, 1801 Dock St. Tacoma, $5-$12, 866.4MUSEUM