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Chihuly has gone on to produce numerous museum exhibitions and public commissions. Today he is internationally celebrated for his artistic and technical contributions to glass sculpture and has been named America's first National Living Treasure. He has won many awards and has been the recipient of five honorary doctorates. Chihuly's glass is in collections as diverse as the Louvre, Paris, the White House, Washington DC, and the Hyatt Hotel, Adelaide. Heat, gravity and centrifugal force are the most distinctive aspects of Chihuly's glass blowing technique. Home | Next..... |
Frog foot chandalier 1995 glass 366x183 cm |
The American artist Dale Chihuly is world-renowned for his innovative and artistically impressive sculpture using glas
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Dale Chihuly
Artist
born Tacoma, WA 1941
- Born
- Tacoma, Washington, United States
- Active in
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Biography
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly studied with Harvey Littleton, founder of the studio glass movement, at the University of Wisconsin and received an M.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1968. Chihuly was a co-founder of the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, and is former director of the glass program at the Rhode Island School of Design. He currently works in Seattle, where he collaborates with and directs a team of glassblowers to produce his signature chandeliers, sea forms, baskets, and cylinders.
Among his many honors are the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 1967 and a Fulbright fellowship to Murano, Italy, in 1968. In 1993 Chihuly designed stage sets for the Seattle Opera Companys production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. In another site-specific installation, Chihuly traveled to Italy to display his massive chandeliers over Venetian canals in a 1996
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Dale
ChihulyBiography
Dale Chihuly, born in 1941 in Washington, is an American artist whose glass sculptures— often presented in complex and dynamic public projects— led to a resurgence of interest in that medium. In 1976, an automobile accident left Chihuly blind in one eye, and thereafter he was dependent on assistant gaffers (glassblowers) to execute his distinctive designs. Chihuly’s works in glass both echo and extend glass’s historical relationship with functionality.
In 1968, He established the RISD glassblowing program and in 1971 founded the influential Pilchuck Glass School north of Seattle. There, he created the first of a number of environmental installations— a group of clear glass bulbs floating on Pilchuck Pond. He continued to teach at RISD until 1980.
Chihuly’s vibrantly coloured organic glass creations are immediately recognizable. His technical innovations enabled the production of a tremendous range of patterns, colours, and textures. Among his several extended series were “Blankets”, for which he used cylindrical forms covered with pa
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