One fine day the GND Crew decided to take in some ART and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
My mother studied glass work while at art school (while I was younger) and used to show my all of Chihuly’s works, which looked like something out of a Dr. Seuss
book. Then I saw his picture for the first time. My reaction was he look something close to my grumpy Uncle Eddy in an Afro.
How could such art come from,..that guy! But it did, and Chihuly kept surprising me with each new installation. I wanted to be in the places his glass works went. I visited Venice, and was so excited to see the old tradition of glass blowing done right in front of me. It help me understand the art, and effort that went into each piece his team created, but also how fragile the glass is. Now I just needed to see his work up close!
Dale Chihuly may just be the Picasso of our time. This master of glass, brought over 40 years of his work to the MFA for us t o see. Pictures and video don’t quite capture the beauty of the glass, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t try! Enjoy!
Go see “Through the Looking Glass” for yourself!
Chihuly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington. He enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959. A year later, he transferred to the University of Washington at Seattle, where in 1965 he received a bachelor of arts degree in interior design.
In 1967, he received a Master of Science in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied under Harvey Littleton. In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington.
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 shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident.
No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work; Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying “Once I stepped back, I liked the view” and pointing out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster. Chihuly describes his role as “more choreographer than dancer, more supervisor than participant, more director than actor.”
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