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Glass Artist Dan Dailey

At Hawk Gallery / Art Chicago 2011 at Merchandise Mart

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Dan Dailey is a glass artist. He was born in Philadelphia in 1947. Dailey, with the support of a team of artists and crafts people, creates sculptures and functional objects in glass and metal.

His list of accomplishments and his resume are far too extensive to list here. here are some highlights. In 1970 Dailey received a teaching fellowship at Rhode Island School of Design [RISD] in Providence, Rhode Island, where the well-known glass artist, Dale Chihuly, was teaching at the time. Dailey became Chihuly’s first graduate student. Along with other students, Dailey assisted in building the RISD glass studio and began to develop concepts for illuminated sculpture. In 1972 he got the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, in 1979 he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship – Glass; in 1980 he won the Massachusetts Council on the Arts Fellowship–Glass; in 2000 he won the Libensky Award, and in 2001 he got the President’s Distinguished Artist Award, University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Dailey is now Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

 

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Published by Jyoti Srivastava
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