Chihooly GlassShaper – Dale Chihuly
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Chihooly_GlassShaper
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Heart_of_Glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Chihuly
https://youtu.be/WGU_4-5RaxU
Chihooly GlassShaper is a Burrower who resides in Last Wood’s Pepper Grass Nook village. He is a glassblower by trade, and can be found inside his Glass Shop in the west area of the village. He helps your wizard restore the Moon’s Crown.
The quest “Heart of Glass” where you return the restored Moon’s Crown to Queen Sabina is a reference to the 1978 hit from Blondie by the same title.
Dale Chihuly (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”.
Chihuly began experimenting with glassblowing in 1965, and in 1966 he received a full scholarship to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He studied under Harvey Littleton, who had established the first glass program in the United States at the university. In 1967, Chihuly received a Master of Science degree in sculpture. After graduating, he enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he met and became close friends with Italo Scanga. Chihuly earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the RISD in 1968. That same year, he was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant for his work in glass, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship. He traveled to Venice to work at the Venini factory on the island of Murano, where he first saw the team approach to blowing glass.
In 1983, Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971. No longer able to hold the glassblowing 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 said that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives, enabling him to anticipate problems earlier. Chihuly’s role has been described as “more choreographer than dancer, more supervisor than participant, more director than actor”. San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Erin Glass wrote that she “wonders at the vision of not just the artist Chihuly, but the very successful entrepreneur Chihuly, whose estimated sales by 2004 was reported by The Seattle Times as $29 million.”
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Dale Chihuly, 1992, at Pilchuck Glass School is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is copyright by Bryan Ohno and is shared under the CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons License.
Chihuly’s The Sun is copyright Dale Chihuly. The image is borrowed from Wikipedia and the image is in the public domain.
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