Chihuly at Cheekwood

Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art
Nashville, Tennessee

May 25 - October 31, 2010

Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art hosts Dale's 11th Gardens and Glass exhibition, Chihuly at Cheekwood. The show, which opened to the public on May 25th in celebration of the Garden's 50th anniversary, presents interior and exterior installations on the spectacular grounds of this botanical garden and museum.

Chihuly at Cheekwood - Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, TN

Chihuly at the Frist

Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Nashville, Tennessee

May 9, 2010 - January 2, 2011

Chihuly at the Frist showcases nine installations drawn from some of Dale's most acclaimed series and designed for presentation in the Frist Center's galleries.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts - Nashville, TN

Nashville Symphony Presents Bluebeard's Castle

Nashville, Tennessee

May 20 - 22, 2010

The Nashville Symphony is the third symphony to present Bela Bartok's one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle complimented by the set designs created by Chihuly. Due to water damage sustained from the recent floods, three outstanding performances were relocated from the symphony's Schermerhorn Hall to its former location at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

The Nashville Symphony presents Bela Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle

Chihuly: A New Eden

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
Grand Rapids, Michigan

April 30 - September 30, 2010

Returning for a second time to this beautiful garden and sculpture park, Chihuly: A New Eden presents fifteen installations in celebration of the 15th anniversary of Meijer Gardens.

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park

Chihuly at the Salk

Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California

April 22 - 28, 2010

In celebration of the Salk Institute's 50th anniversary, Dale was invited to install artwork on the Salk campus that overlooks the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, California. The institute, designed by Louis Kahn, and Chihuly's vibrant artwork brought together a wonderful confluence of art, science, and architecture. The exhibition gave the San Diego community opportunities to tour the site and watch the Chihuly team assemble the unique sculptures.

Chihuly at the Salk

Marlborough Chelsea

New York, New York

September 16 - October 16, 2010

Opening September 16, Chihuly's artwork will be on view at Marlborough's Chelsea gallery located at 545 West 25th Street.  Designed with soaring ceilings and abundant natural light specifically to showcase monumental sculpture, this is the first time Chihuly's work will be exhibited at this location.  Dale has created a unique, environmental experience incorporating Persian elements with structural steel armatures.  Also on display will be works from his new Silvered series.

Marlborough Gallery - Chelsea

Red Reeds at 2010 International VSA Festival

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, D.C.

June 6 - October 4, 2010

In June, the international organization of the arts and disabilities brought together artists, educators, researchers, and policymakers with and without disabilities from around the world for a multicultural celebration of the arts and art education.  The Kennedy Center is the site of visual arts exhibitions, both inside and outside the building. As one of the participating artists, Chihuly has installed a dramatic composition of Red Reeds in the front reflecting pool.

International VSA Festival

The Chihuly Collection presented by the Morean Arts Center

Morean Arts Center
St. Petersburg, Florida

Now Open

The Chihuly Collection presented by the Morean Arts Center celebrated its grand opening to the public on July 11th in St. Petersburg, Florida.  Showcasing a permanent collection of Dale's artwork in a 10,000 square foot setting, the Chihuly Collection will further anchor an evolving art scene in the St. Petersburg area that includes the Museum of Fine Arts and, in 2011, the new Salvador Dali Museum.

Chihuly Collection St. Petersburg, Florida

Alexandria Center for Science and Technology at Mission Bay

San Francisco, California

Installed March 2010

The Alexandria Center for Science and Technology at Mission Bay is a new technology facility in the San Francisco area. A blue, white, and clear Chandelier makes a commanding statement in the lobby of the North Campus building.

Alexandria Center for Science and Technology at Mission Bay

Resorts World Sentosa

Singapore

Now Open

On February 14, 2010, Resorts World Sentosa opened its doors to the public.  Touting Southeast Asia's only Universal Studios theme park with four hotels, a grand theatre, and casino, the resort will also open the world's largest Marine Life Park, a Maritime Museum, and two additional hotels in a later phase.  Throughout the resort, eighteen magnificent Chihuly sculptures are featured, including a dramatic installation of the Otto Stelle (eight stars) Chandeliers.

Resorts World Sentosa | Singapore Hotel & Casino Resort | Integrated Resort

Columbia Museum of Art

Columbia, South Carolina

Installed April 2010

South Carolina celebrated the first Chihuly installation of its kind at the Columbia Museum of Art with the acquisition and installation of a red, orange, and gold Chandelier within the museum's David Wallace Robinson Jr. Atrium.  Funds for the artwork were raised by the Contemporaries, an impressive member group of young professionals.

Columbia Museum of Art - Dale Chihuly Chandelier

Chihuly on the Google Homepage

Now Available

Chihuly has once again teamed up with Google to provide five colorful images as background options on Google's homepage.  Click on the [change background image] tab in the lower left corner of the Google homepage to have Chihuly enliven your Google experience.

www.google.com

Litvak Gallery

Tel Aviv, Israel

Opening December 11, 2010

Chihuly Studio is excited to announce Dale's show at Litvak Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel. Large-scale installations and many of Dale's series of works will be on display in the 9,000 square foot gallery located in the Museum Tower. Some of the works that will be displayed include a large Persian Window, an Icicle Tower, Mille Fiori, and Chandeliers. Additionally, the gallery will show new Venetians, Ikebana, and Jerusalem Cylinders.

Litvak Gallery

SOFA Chicago 2010

Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

November 5-7, 2010

This November in Chicago, Litvak Gallery will be presenting Dale's work at the International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art (SOFA). The show will feature the body of Dale's Silvered series including Silvered Venetians, Silvered Ikebana, Silvered Piccolo Venetians, Silvered Jerusalem Cylinders, and Silvered Cylinders. A Mille Fiori installation incorporating a hanging Chandelier will also be on display. Dale will be the featured artist at this year's SOFA.

Litvak Gallery

SOFA Chicago 2010

Chihuly Fire & Light
The Making of an Exhibition

The latest film from Portland Press debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 26, 2010. The nation’s largest film festival concluded on the 13th of June with an announcement of record-breaking box office numbers, as well as Jury and Audience Award Winners. Chihuly Fire & Light, directed by Peter West and produced by Mark McDonnell, was among those listed in the Top Ten for Best Documentary in the festival. A DVD Set and Blu-ray version are available for purchase.

Chihuly Fire & Light - DVD Set

New Books from Portland Press

Chihuly Persians
Chihuly Mille Fiori
Chihuly Cylinders

The second installment in this small book set includes Persians, Mille Fiori, and Cylinders. Dramatically different in form, each of these series exudes an elegance of its own.

Specific to one series, each title chronicles the renowned artist’s glass sculpture. Compact in appearance but not in content, each book within the collection boasts more than 112 pages. Essays by Davira Taragin explore the individuality that makes Chihuly's artwork so unique.

A companion DVD of approximately 15 minutes running time accompanies each book and includes the artist discussing the history of each series.

Books

Chihuly Sculptures
12 note cards / envelopes

While Dale Chihuly is celebrated for large scale architectural installations, he is equally acclaimed for the creation of many well-known smaller series works. Among the first of these series, the Cylinders, emerged in 1975, followed by the delicate Seaforms, the exotic Persians, and the exuberant Venetians. This note card set captures the unique characteristics of these individual series.

Note Cards

New Lithograph Available from Portland Press
True Hearts and Ikebana Too

Dale Chihuly teams up with master printmakers to produce dynamic prints that embrace his love of color, form, and texture.  Chihuly's original limited edition prints continue to captivate audiences as his collector base widens and enthusiasm is further heightened with the debut of his newest lithograph, True Hearts and Ikebana Too. This print officially released on June 21, 2010 and is the second new release for 2010.  True Hearts and Ikebana Too combines lithography printmaking techniques and four layers of added handwork resulting in a gestural composition with textural energy that intrigues the senses.  This print is shaping up to be one of Chihuly's most popular prints to date!

Lithographs

30 Years Ago

In 1980, a decade before Chihuly purchased the well-known Boathouse in Seattle, he moved into his first Boathouse, in Pawtuxet Cove, Rhode Island. This was Chihuly's East Coast studio and residence during a three-year period when he traveled often between the two Coasts. On an inlet off of Narragansett Bay, this residence, like his Seattle Boathouse on Lake Union, was located in a “working” area that served the fishing and boating industries.

Seattle Sounders FC / Chihuly Emerald Spire

Seattle, Washington

May 26, 2010 and July 18, 2010

The Seattle Sounders and Chihuly Studio partnered once again by creating an opportunity for a Sounders FC fan aged 16 years or younger to participate in pre-match activities for the Boca Junior match on May 26th and the Celtic FC match on July 18 at Qwest Field. Fans were invited to submit a 200 word essay describing how they best exemplify the Sounders FC core values of passion, community, courage and excellence. The winner, Rachel Redding's son Wyatt, presented the Chihuly created Emerald Spire award to Boca Junior captain Hugo Ibarra prior to the start of the match. Redding and her son also visited the Chihuly hotshop to see how the Emerald Spire award was created.

Fans to Present Emerald Spire - Seattle Sounders Football Club

2010 World Superyacht Awards

Guildhall, London

May 22, 2010

The 2010 World Superyacht Awards, which recognize the most outstanding superyachts delivered in 2009, took place on May 22 at London’s Guildhall. More than 500 guests including superyacht owners, their families, friends, and senior members of the superyacht industry were present at one of the most illustrious nights in yachting. Once again, two Chihuly created awards were presented for best Motor Yacht and best Sailing Yacht. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners. Calm seas and following winds in 2011.

World Superyacht Awards

2010 Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta

Sardinia, Italy

June 8-12, 2010

Twenty-eight of the largest and most spectacular sailing superyachts in the world competed in the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta from June 8th through June 12th on what is considered one of the most challenging regatta courses in the world in Sardinia, Italy. The winner of the Regatta was presented with an award created by Chihuly.

Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta