DALE CHIHULY Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington.

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DALE CHIHULYBorn in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington,
Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while
studying interior design at the University of
Washington.
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• After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the
  first glass program in the country, at the
  University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies
  at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD),
  where he later established the glass program and
  taught for more than a decade.

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• In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship,
  he went to work at the Venini glass factory in
  Venice. There he observed the team approach to
  blowing glass, which is critical to the way he
  works today.

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• In 1971, Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School
  in Washington State. With this international
  glass center, Chihuly has led the avant-garde in
  the development of glass as a fine art. Pictured
  is Chihulys work at the Bellagio casino in
  Nevada.

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• In 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was
  involved in a head-on car accident during which
  he flew through the windshield. His face was
  severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his
  left eye. After recovering, he continued to blow
  glass until he dislocated his right shoulder in a
  1979 body surfing accident. No longer able to
  hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to
  do the work. 

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• His work is included in more than 200 hundred
  museum collections worldwide. He has been the
  recipient of many awards, including twelve
  honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the
  National Endowment for the Arts.

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The University of Akron
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Close-Up of Akron
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• "I love to go to the ocean and walk along the
  beach. Glass is so much like water. If you let it
  go on its own, it almost ends up looking like
  something that came from the sea." Chihuly
• The Seaform Pavilion in Tacoma Washington is a
  ceiling made of 2,364 objects from Chihuly's
  Seaform and Persian series. Seaforms have soft,
  undulating sides and rims, and feature delicate,
  flowing forms and colors. Persians, the exotic
  cousin to the Seaforms, are a rich variety of
  cones, flasks, and roundels with spiraling
  ribbons of color.

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• Placed on top of a fifty-by-twenty-foot
  plate-glass ceiling, the forms are suspended in
  midair and make dramatic use of natural light.
  Fluorescent lights augment daylight on cloudy
  days and illuminate the pavilion at night. The
  tinted glass side walls of the pavilion allow
  viewers to immerse themselves in the space
  without distraction. As visitors walk under this
  pavilion, they experience a seemingly underwater
  world of glass shapes and forms a few feet above
  their heads.

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Alexander Calder
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Other Glass Scuptures
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• Begin brainstorming ideas for your sculpture
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