The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, is exhibiting Chihuly: The Nature of Glass. The exhibition features site specific glass installations in the magnificent desert environment along the garden's trails. The exhibition dates are November 22, 2008, through May 31, 2009.

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Chihuly@Google. Dale visited Google at their headquarters in Mountain View, California on June 19, 2008, as part of their Authors@Google series. Watch Dale's talk and the videos he showed on YouTube.

You can now set up your own iGoogle homepage and personalize it with a Chihuly Artist Theme banner. One of three photographic images will display on rotation every time you visit your page.

Chihuly in the Hotshop, a new documentary directed by Peter West is now available. In the summer of 2006 the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, invited Chihuly to work in their state-of-the-art hotshop, an amphitheater specifically designed to allow the audience to watch the action close at hand. Chihuly's residency soon became the idea for a documentary as he set forth on an ambitious program that would reflect the sum total of his work in glass over the last thirty years. All thirteen of his best-known series were revisited along with more than forty artists and gaffers who had worked with Chihuly at the time of the inception of each series.

The film premiered at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 3, 2008. In February the film had its Northwest premier at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, and aired on KCTS in Seattle. It was shown at the 31st Portland International Film Festival at the NW Film Center, Portland, Oregon. The film was selected to be shown at the HDFEST in New York City in October.

The title is now available as a beautifully produced two-part set DVD and 144 page book from Portland Press. The small hardcover contains more than ninety images with liner notes by art critic Matthew Kangas.

A major Chihuly installation is on public display: Fireworks of Glass at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is currently Chihuly's largest permanent sculpture. The 43-foot tower rises above what appears to be a floating glass ceiling under which children and families can engage in an interactive and hands-on glassblowing experience.

For a complete list of current and upcoming exhibitions, please visit the exhibition schedule.

Chihuly Installations in the Puget Sound Area

The Chihuly Studio is closed to the public. However, if you are planning a visit to the Seattle area, there are several public sites featuring Chihuly installations that are worth a visit. A list of some of the spots open to the public with addresses linked to Google maps is available as a web page or as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat pdf file .

Site News: The About the Artist Section and New Search Tool

The About the Artist  section has recently been expanded to include nearly 80 reproductions of articles and essays about Chihuly, as well as statements, interviews and lectures by him. To find specific information about Chihuly or his work anywhere on the site, use our Google search tool and translate tool . If you are interested in searching the images on this site, you may also find Google's image search useful; just remember to add "site:chihuly.com" to your search term(s) to restrict your search to this site. Remember to visit the site map for an overview of the site or our navigation tips for information about how to use the site.

Screening Room now features Cinema format videos shot in HD

The updated and expanded Video section of this web site includes over 50 documentary shorts and trailers. Nearly five hours of footage includes major projects, permanent installations and museum exhibitions as well as Chihuly and the hot shop and installation teams in action. Also included are over a dozen intimate interviews featuring Chihuly discussing his glass series. Just added are new videos shot in HD in Cinema format: New York Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, and the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. For full-length versions of many of the films be sure to visit the Portland Press web site. And you can often find broadcasts of the popular videos Chihuly at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Chihuly Short Cuts on public television. Use PBS' online schedule for local show times. Another way to watch Chihuly films is by renting the DVDs through Netflix .

News + Events at Portland Press

Dale Chihuly’s 2009 Studio Edition glass debuted April 1 and is now available at select galleries and museum stores worldwide. Chihuly has once again created a work of art that showcases his love and fascination with works on paper. The lithograph Reeds Before released to the public in a limited edition of 100. Chihuly Black, a new hardcover coffee table book, is now available through your favorite bookstore. For all the latest information on new Chihuly artwork and publications offered through Portland Press, please visit News + Events.

Press Materials Available in the Press Room

Please visit the Press Room for recent press releases as well as a one-page fact sheet, a one-page biography, a longer chronology and a vocabulary of forms describing Chihuly's glass series. Press contact information is also available. For an extensive Bibliography, including reproduced essays and articles written about Chihuly's work, and writings, interviews and lectures by Chihuly himself, please visit the Dale Chihuly section.

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