Dale Chihuly Glass Ceiling Oklahoma City Museum of Art

For more a decade now, the Oklahoma City Museum of Fine art has been a hub for glass art enthusiasts, bringing in visitors from beyond the country.

The Museum's permanent exhibition Dale Chihuly: Magic & Lite, one of the largest collections of Chihuly glass in the globe, pays homage to Chihuly, the 75-yr-quondam American creative person who pioneered the studio glass movement. OKCMOA's collection represents more than three decades of Chihuly's finest works and heralds this brilliant artist as the virtually important working in glass since Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Throughout his career Chihuly pushed the boundaries of his materials, manipulating the forces of color and low-cal to create magnificent big-scale glass installations indoors and out.

His work is included in more 200 museum collections worldwide. He has been the recipient of many awards, including 12 honorary doctorates and ii fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

When the Oklahoma City Museum of Art inaugurated the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Middle in 2002 with an exhibition of glass and drawings past Chihuly, nobody knew information technology would become a long-term project.

Bolstered by enormous public support, the Museum purchased the exhibition in June 2004, which included works from Chihuly's all-time-known series, in addition to drawings, and was anchored by the 55-pes Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the Museum's atrium.

To gloat Oklahoma Urban center's longtime relationship with this master glass creative person, hither are five Chihuly pieces every Oklahoman should know.

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Persian Ceiling

Western farsi

"The series started with small and experimental geometric shapes - primarily small-scale bottles and vessels," Shotick said. "Gradually, Chihuly pushed his Persians into large fluted shapes, which are then oft grouped with the smaller vessels."

At the Oklahoma Urban center Museum of Fine art, the Persians are resting on a glass ceiling—visitors can walk nether the sea of glass and marvel at the colorful light reflections.

"If you wait closely at the glass-filled ceiling, y'all can encounter v putti. Italian for 'little boys,' putti are imaginary winged figures that were oftentimes used as decoration in Renaissance and Baroque art," Shotick explained.

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Reeds

"During the planning of the inaugural Dale Chihuly exhibition at the Oklahoma Metropolis Museum of Art, a large tempest brought down trees at the firm of the Museum's then-managing director Carolyn Loma," Shotick said. "Later on beingness treated for insects or mold, the tree trunks were brought in and used as the base for the Reed installation, adding a piece of Oklahoma to the exhibition."

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Float Gunkhole & Ikebana Boat

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Peradventure the most intriguing pieces of the drove, the glass-filled boats are especially dearest for their whimsical qualities. Just their story is equally intriguing.

Chihuly first filled boats with glass in Nuutajärvi, Finland, while working on a collaborative projection for the exhibition Chihuly Over Venice in 1995, Shotick explained. Subsequently several days of glassblowing, the artist and his team made temporary installations along the Nuutajoki River.

"Liking the way the glass looked in h2o, he tossed pieces into the river, letting them float downstream," Shotick said. "Local children in minor wooden rowboats joined in and gathered the floating glass for him, and it was so that Chihuly saw the opportunity for a new type of installation."

She also said that the team plant a partially submerged wooden rowboat along the riverbank, which was hauled out and emptied of mud and debris, and Chihuly filled it with drinking glass.

"He has continued to revisit the boat idea ever since," Shotick added.

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Waterford Crystal Chandelier

"While working in Republic of ireland, Chihuly collaborated with glassblowers and etchers at the Waterford Crystal manufactory—this was the outset time that an outside creative person was allowed into the famous manufactory," Shotick said.

"They created 2 Waterford Crystal chandeliers, one of which was sent to Oklahoma City as part of Dale Chihuly: The Inaugural Exhibition, the offset exhibition in the new Oklahoma City Museum of Art in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Heart."

Today, the Waterford Crystal Chandelier tin can be constitute in the xx-foot high lobby of the Museum's Noble Theater.

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Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower

Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Belfry

"The tower stands equally a memorial to the late Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick, a Museum founder," Shotick said.

Occupying the three-story atrium in the Museum'due south main lobby, the 55-foot high belfry emerges from a black granite reflecting pool.  It is comprised of 2,100 individually blown glass parts and held together past a seven slice steel armature, or spine. The steel structure holds the glass pieces with 2,100 private forks.

The tower was designed specifically for OKCMOA and took two and a half weeks to install.

Today, illuminated 24 hours a day, the belfry rises equally a beacon for Museum visitors.

"Information technology is one of the many tower-type sculptures Chihuly has made since 1996, of which no 2 are akin," Shotick said.

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About the OKCMOA Chihuly Collection

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art has ane of the largest collections of Chihuly glass in the world. Originally titled Dale Chihuly: An Countdown Exhibition, which showed in 2002, the drove was the countdown exhibition in the Donald West. Reynolds Visual Arts Center.

The works in the exhibition were reinstalled on the Museum'southward third flooring, opening in April 2004, after 32 days of all-encompassing set building and preparation.

OKCMOA somewhen purchased the entire collection in June 2004 and later re-titled it Dale Chihuly: The Drove.

The collection besides includes later gifts to the Museum by Dale Chihuly and the installation was modified once more in 2015 and relaunched as Dale Chihuly: Magic & Light.

"Magic & Light offers an opportunity to explore the full range of his artistic achievements by immersing visitors in the magical environments created through his vision," Shotick said.

For tickets or more information, visit www.okcmoa.com.

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