Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly
born 1941
Born 20 September 1941, in Tacoma (Washington).
Glassmaker, sculptor, installation artist.
Dale Chihuly studied at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he received a BA in 1965, the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1967, where he obtained an MS, and Rhode Island School of Design, where he obtained an MFA in 1968. During his period of study he also travelled to Ireland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Sweden, Russia and the Middle East. In 1969, he established the glass programme at the Rhode Island School of Design, and, in 1971, co-founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle.
Chihuly first began to blow glass in 1965. A prolific artist, he is best known for his multi-part glass sculptures influenced by the designs of Native American blankets and basketry, Japanese ikebana and Venetian art glass of the 1920s and 1930s. His series of works includes Cylinders, Baskets, Seaforms, Macchia, Persians, and Putti. In the early 1970s, he made large installation works such as Glass Forest and 20,000 Pounds of Ice and Neon, by which he made blown glass an acceptable medium for environmental art. He has collaborated with the Venetian master glass-blowers Pino Signoretto and Lino Tagliapietra.
Chihuly's numerous awards include: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1975, 1977); Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement (1994); Urban Glass Award, Contemporary Glass Center (1996); Globe Award, World Trade Center (1996); Jerusalem Prize for Arts and Letters, Israel's National Academy of Arts and Design (1998); Distinguished Artist Gold Medal, University Arts, Philadelphia (2000). In 1993, 13 March was declared 'Dale Chihuly Day' by the mayor of Seattle. ["CHIHULY, Dale." Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed September 4, 2014, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/benezit/B00037406.]
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