Chihuly was the first American glassblower to apprentice with the glass masters who had long guarded their centuries-old secrets on the tiny island of Murano. Chihuly received more than stitches in his face and lost the sight in his left eye. Between the two impairments, his limited depth perception and bum shoulder, Chihuly was forced to pass his glass blowing pipe to a team of artists in Dating back to the s, Dale Chihuly has been a pacifist.
Organizing marches and coordinating campus protests, he spoke out against the Vietnam War, the invasion of Cambodia, and the Kent State killings. To call Dale Chihuly the most renowned and prolific glass sculpture artist in the world almost feels like an understatement. His work appears in more than art museums around the world, including the Smithsonian , Louvre, and National Gallery of Australia.
But his work is also found outside of art museums, including:. From the woven tapestries that included small pieces of glass back in college to two-dimensional paintings on flat pieces of glass , Dale Chihuly is more than a glass sculpture artist. While that revelation may conjure up images of a Venetian-style palace filled with sketches by Degas and sculptures from medieval times like the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston , replace those visions in your mind with everyday objects.
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Chihuly continued his graduate studies in the ceramics department at the Rhode Island School of Design RISD , where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade. Hauber, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School , an international center for art glass education.
During his time in college, he took a year off from school to travel throughout Europe and the Middle East and work at a kibbutz in Israel. Once he completed his degree, Chihuly worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska, earning money so he could attend graduate school.
Chihuly is blind in his left eye.
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