Brothers Eli Hansen, a glassblower, and Oscar Tuazon, a conceptual
artist preoccupied with makeshift architecture, have sprung into
view over the last year. In 2007, Tuazon won the Betty Bowen Award and
Seattle Art Museum collected their glass-and-wood sculpture
Crystal Math; now they have concurrent shows at SAM and
Howard House. The
noon talk at the gallery is intimate and free. (Howard House,
604 Second Ave, 256-6399. Noon, free.) JEN GRAVES

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...