Have you ever observed glass? Artist Chihuly did, and the result is amazing art! Let's celebrate this artist with 10 Dale Chihuly Art Projects for Kids.
Photos of all the installations by glass artist Dale Chihuly at The New York Botanical Garden, his first major garden exhibit in a decade
Have you ever observed glass? Artist Chihuly did, and the result is amazing art! Let's celebrate this artist with 10 Dale Chihuly Art Projects for Kids.
Since you are here, please, make a comment. Also, If you like my photography, check out my website/blog at: www.JohnRRogers.com for more information. Today I decided to post another image from the Chihuly exhibit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. I really love the glass of Dale Chihuly. I love the amazing color & detail he brings to his art. This is a section of the ceiling from a hallway that joins two rooms in the Museum. As I very often do, I combined several exposures to create a High Dynamic Range or HDR image that simply cannot be captured in any other way. You can see other images from the museum here. A note about my Creative Commons - Non Commercial Licensing. If you derive any income from your website through sales of products or services or receive revenue from advertising placed on your site then you do not qualify to use my images under my creative commons license. If your are a not for profit corporation or political campaign, you also do not qualify under my Non Commercial license. I do license my images to commercial enterprises for a very reasonable fee. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. If you are truly a non-commercial site and would like a copy of this image without my watermark, feel free to contact me with the details of your intended use.
He’s baaaaaack. After helping the Atlanta Botanical Garden attract a record-breaking 375,000 visitors and launch its fledgling series of art exhibitions in the garden in 2004, Seattle-based glass artist Dale Chihuly has returned to the garden with 20 pieces placed throughout the shrubs, manicured lawns, woodlands and meadows of this glorious human-devised celebration of the natural world.
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The leader in the art renaissance in glass making, Dale Chihuly has transformed the perception of glass bringing to realization its almost unlimited possibilities as a sculptured medium.
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Artist Dale Chihuly celebrates the beauty of creative expression both indoors and outdoors in the newly renovated community space at Seattle Center called
Dale Chihuly is an American artist noted for revolutionizing the studio glass movement and elevating perceptions of the medium. For more than a half century, Chihuly has employed a variety of media that also includes glass, paint, charcoal, graphite, neon, ice, and Polyvitro to explore possibilities to experiment with
American artist Dale Chihuly will have his first exhibition in Asia right here in Gardens by the Bay
Chihuly glass at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio.
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A while back I saw a great Chihuly lesson posted on The Crayon Lab blog (here). I've seen quite a few Chihuly inspired art lessons on the web, but I liked the simplicity of using rubber bands to hold the coffee filters on paint bottles before spraying starch on them. I pretty much followed the steps in that lesson, except I didn't have enough paint bottles, so we used plastic cups from Smart & Final (seems like I've been living there lately!). I also showed the kids a slide show loop that is on Dale Chihuly's site ( here ), explaining that macchia means "spotted" in Italian. They also watched a short interview with the artist, in which he explains how he named the series (which he originally was referring to as "the uglies" because his mother thought they were ugly!! (interview is here) I like the video clip on The Crayon Lab site, but it was a bit long, and showing YouTube at our school is a problem. With the help of another teacher, we managed to show half of that video to one of the classes. Students thought about their color plan, putting lighter colors down first and making the spots on top of that layer of color. This actually follows the way the Chihuly team applies the colored spots (or jimmies) after the main part of the piece has been formed. We used regular Crayola watercolor markers and a coffee filter. Next, students wrapped their coffee filter around a cup (they wrote their names and room #s inside the cup with permanent marker) and fastened it with a rubber band. This is a step where neighbors can help neighbors! The last step for this first day is to spray starch the whole thing and let it dry. Kids LOVED watching the starch fizz and change their artwork. The final step will be to glue the "macchia" to a piece of illustration board. We have pre-cut these donated boards to 6" X 6".
(Playing around with composition) My Mini Modern Artists took a look at the work of Amercian glass sculptor, Dale Chihuly. His amazing installations can be seen around the world. Closest to our home is Fiori di Como in the lobby of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Commissioned by Steve Wynn, it took over 100 architects, engineers, shippers, installers and glass blowers to create this 2,100 square foot installation with over 2000 pieces of glass. It's a spectacular piece that looks like a mass of dream-like flowers or sea creatures. Originally I had intended for each child to create their own design to take home. But I thought that collectively, they created a wonderful meandering composition more in the style of Chihuly. And as an added bonus, I get to keep it! Each child will get a mounted photo of their collaborative project. I bought 8x10 sheets of Shrinky Dink paper (can you believe most of these children had never heard of them?!) I had them create a design with permanent markers, encouraging them to keep it simple and repetetive. Each sheet was put in the oven where it contorted to a unique shape. I randomly glue gunned the pieces together (managing to burn myself only once!) and threaded a small hole in the piece with fishing line and then a simple wire hook and hung it from my ceiling. It looks beautiful spinning slowly with all the interplay of colors, forms and shapes. I plan to do this project again on a smaller scale so each child can have their own mini Chihuly inspired sculpture.
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As the year draws to a close, the kids have been working on one last mini inquiry. I was showing them images of Chihuly sculptures. He is an artist who uses glass to create art. His work is beautiful and inspiring! I was hoping to inspire them to create this: But as things usually go, they didn't even notice this style of Chihuly art... BUT, they all did a collective gasp when they saw this image: "Can we make that?" Well, yes, I think so! I layed out large and small plastic cups, and large and small plastic plates, along with permanent markers at one of our "We Wonder" stations. They got right to work! They tried to fill every bit of the cups and plates with color. This took a lot of focus, dedication and persistence to cover every bit of space with bright colors! I took their finished pieces and put them on tin foil on our grill for about 30 seconds on low heat. They turned out beautiful! I drilled two small holes into each piece and piled them on the table with a section of chicken wire I found in my garage. The kids took wire pieces, threaded them through the cups, and then twisted the wire through he chicken wire to secure them. Talk about a fine motor work out! It was very hard for them to do, but as they have proven, they are persistent and never gave up on this project! After watching a Chihuly video showing his process of creating one of his chandeliers, the kids documented what they learned about Chihuly. I had run out of plastic cups, but the interest was still there so I dug out some plastic water bottles that would mimic his chandelier style. These will make a beautiful addition to our sculpture! Some are also hanging in our tree by the window so the light can catch them! I worried that they would get bored or frustrated and we wouldn't have enough "glass sculptures" to finish the project, but they have been working on this for two weeks and still keep going back to work on it some more! I am so glad that when something gets difficult, these kids press on! I am so proud of these kids for showing such dedication and perseverance. It is amazing how many 21st Century Skills a project like this helps develope! So many skills have been developed from projects such as this one that will help them so much as they leave the early childhood setting and start their new adventure into grade school! Isn't that what early childhood education is all about? Preparing them by teaching them how to learn? These kids have learned so much through authentic experiences, play, and projects this year. Not just the basics of how to read, write and do math, but they have learned how to problem solve without the help of an adult, work together in groups as a team, persist when a task grows difficult, see a project to the end without quitting, come up with creative ideas, create plans and stick to them, but tweak those plans if necessary, get along with others, and respect authority. If we don't take time to teach these life skills in Pre-K and Kindergarten, it will be too late for them later. When these skills are there, the other learning happens. I am so proud to work in a district that sees the importance of early childhood education! Here is our finished product!
Artist Dale Chihuly celebrates the beauty of creative expression both indoors and outdoors in the newly renovated community space at Seattle Center called
Dale Chihuly, 78, has been so prolific, financially successful, and widely exhibited for so long that it’s easy to forget how innovative he’s been.
Dale Chihuly est un artiste verrier américain (né en 1947) à l’allure étrange (depuis un grave accident de voiture, il porte un bandeau sur l’oeil gauche qui lui donne l’allure d’un pirate) on ne peut plus prolifique. Et c’est tant mieux, car c’est un véritable magicien ! Il façonne des bulles, des fleurs, des tiges, … Continuer la lecture de Le verre et Dale Chihuly →
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A bit of info about the artist... www.chihuly.com/biography.aspx
