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Dale Chihuly (/ tʃ ɪ ˈ h uː l i / chih-HOO-lee; born September 20, 1941) is an American glass artist and entrepreneur. He is well known in the field of blown glass , "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture".
In 2000, Chihuly's commission from the Victoria and Albert Museum for a 30-foot-high (9.1 m), blown-glass chandelier dominates the museum's main entrance. Chihuly's The Sun was on temporary display until January 2006 at Kew Gardens, London, England. The piece is 13 feet (4 m) high.
Displayed along with the piece is a plaque with the text, "Indigo Blue Seaform with Red Lip Wraps, Dale Chihuly, 1997" followed by the dedication, "In loving memory of Herman S. Shapiro, M.D., Vanderbilt medical School 1944, 'a caring and dedicated surgeon' Given by his sons."
Dale Chihuly, then the head of the glass program at Rhode Island School of Design, and Ruth Tamura, who ran the glass blowing program at California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC, now California College of the Arts) applied early in 1971 for a grant from the Union of Independent Colleges of Art to operate a summer workshop in the medium of glass.
Glass artist Dale Chihuly returns to Arizona for "Chihuly in the Desert" at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Desert Botanical Garden.
The tower sits on a glass base, a pergola ceiling, and rises through the center of the museum's spiraling ramp system. Created by Dale Chihuly in 2006, it is his second-largest permanently installed glass sculpture. Beneath the tower is an accompanying exhibit that describes the sculpture and the process by which it was made.
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Dale Chihuly is an internationally recognized glass artist and entrepreneur. He was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1941. Chihuly received an M.S. in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967 and earned his M.F.A. in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1968. He became the first American to apprentice at Venice's ...