MUSEUM OF GLASS VISITING ARTIST
“Romson Bustillo
February 26-March 2
Born in the Philippines, Romson Bustillo has taught mixed media printmaking and interdisciplinary art throughout the Seattle area (including Pratt Fine Arts Center and University of Washington) for over 25 years. Carving his own path, Bustillo integrates an interdisciplinary practice with a mixed media printmaking foundation.
He was awarded the Seattle Print Arts Larry Sommers Art Fellowship in 2016. In 2017 he was co-recipient of the Garboil Grant established by the late artist Sue Jobs, an award that considers artists “… engaging audiences outside the aesthetic industrial complex.” He received Arts-Individual Projects Grants from 4Culture in 2018 and 2020 in support of his installations and collaborative interventions. He is the recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship (2019) and the Artist Trust Artist Innovator Award (2021). He received a Northwest Film Forum Collective Power Fund Award in 2022 in "New Work/Projects" category.
Bustillo has taught mixed media printmaking and interdisciplinary art for over 25 years including at Pratt Fine Arts Center 2D studios, the Seattle Art Museum, and as a Lecturer for the University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Program…”