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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". [2]
Irving Amen (1918-2011), stained glass; Gary Beecham (b. 1955) Howard Ben Tré (1949-2020) Martin Blank (b. 1962) Granite Calimpong (b. 1982) Jean-Pierre Canlis (b. 1973) Frederick Carder (1863-1963) Ed Carpenter (b. 1946) Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) Deborah Czeresko (b. 1961) Dan Dailey (b. 1947) Fritz Dreisbach (b. 1941) Robert C. Fritz (1920-1986 ...
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.
Her works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of American Glass in Millville, New Jersey, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, [3] and the Frauenau Glass Museum. She served on the board of directors for UrbanGlass, a glassblowing studio based in Brooklyn, from 2008 to 2018. [4] In 2019, she won the first season of the Netflix series, Blown Away. [5]
[11] [12] Some famous collectors of Frabel glass art include Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, current and former heads of governments such as Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Anwar Sadat as well as museums in London, Paris, Tokyo, Dresden, Valencia, Corning, San Francisco, New York and ...
Tagliapietra was born August 10, 1934, in an apartment on the Rio dei Vetri (which translates litteraly in "glass canal", or more broadly in "glass street" considering the intense use of waterways in the Venetian Lagoon as means for transport of goods and people) in Murano, Italy, [2] an island with a history of glass-making that dates from 1291.
Powell, an internationally known glass artist, helped train and build up other artists throughout the region. ‘A rare individual.’ How one artist in Danville inspired a generation of glass blowers
Trained as a fine artist in the academies of Germany, he was largely self-taught as a glass blower and at the time produced his work with the help of the factory's craftsmen. [14] The friendship begun when Littleton visited Eisch in Frauenau in 1962 lasted for the rest of Littleton's life, and had profound influence on the work of each.