Leslie jackson chihuly biography wikipedia

American glass sculptor and entrepreneur

Dale Chihuly (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]

Early life

Dale Patrick Chihuly was born on September 20, 1941, in Tacoma, Washington.^[3] His parents were George and Viola Chihuly; his paternal grandfather was born in Slovakia.^[3] In 1957, his older brother and only sibling George died in a Navy aviation training accident in Pensacola, Florida.^[4] In 1958, Chihuly's father died of a heart attack at the age of 51.^[5][6]

Chihuly had no interest in continuing his formal education after graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1959. However, at his mother's urging, he enrolled at the College of Puget Sound.^[6] A year later, he transferred to the University of Washington in Seattle to study i