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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.
Indigo Blue Seaform with Red Lip Wraps is part of Dale Chihuly's Seaforms series, an evolution of his Baskets series. The Seaforms series includes several blown glass sculptures in various colors. The works feature thin glass wrapped in a spiral fashion which Chihuly describes as "pieces with natural rhythm and fluidity—tributes to the sea."
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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.
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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.