Artist: Dale Chihuly,Seattle, Washington

For over 30 years, artist Dale Chihuly has dazzled critics and international audiences with his translucent art. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study the art of glass blowing at the Venini factoryin Venice. And in 1995, his project "Chihuly over Venice" featured glass sculptures above the canals and piazze of Venice. In 1999, over one million visitors attended the Tower of David Museum to view his exhibition "Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem". His work is included in more than 200 museum collections worldwide, and has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards.

The Seaform Pavilion is a 50 feet by 20 feet plate-glass ceiling filled with 2,364 sculpted glass objects from Chihuly’s Seaform and Persian series. The ceiling extends over most of the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, above the Museum of Glass.
With wild hair and a black patch over one eye, Chihuly looks a bit like a pirate. The eye patch isn’t just for dramatic flair, though; Chihuly is blind in his left eye. The injury resulted from a 1976 car accident in England, after which he underwent 256 stitches in his face. While bodysurfing just 3 years after his car accident, Chihuly dislocated his shoulder; he hasn’t blown glass since. Chihuly himself no longer blows the glass or sculpts it; he has an army of artists working for him. He does, however, sign every piece, and has stated that production will cease when he’s no longer able to sign.