Glass sculpture chihuly boston mfa events
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Glass sculpture chihuly boston mfa events
Through August, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston is hosting a special exhibition entitled Through the Looking Glass by master glass blower Dale Chihuly.
The display features marvelously varied forms of glass work that gives evidence of the artist’s global renown.
If you’ve never heard of him before, you’ll never forget him after.
Chihuly first discovered glass blowing while studying interior design at the University of Washington in the sixties. After graduating, he went on to enroll in the country’s first glass program at the University of Wisconsin.
After losing sight in his left eye in a car accident and later damaging the nerves in his shoulder while body surfing, Chihuly has had to step back and guide others to physically create his inventions.
In an interview with the Seattle Post Intelligencer, he described himself as now “more choreographer than dancer, more supervisor than participant, more director than actor.”
Stepping into the fantastical exhibit, one alm