Pilchuck Glass School, founded in 1971 and located outside Seattle. It began more or less as a commune; over the first rainy summer, the first resident artists there lived and worked in rough conditions. They did manage to make a working furnace and batches of thick-walled, blobby vases that, for most of them, marked the extent of their technical expertise. They also created some wild experiments using the then-new art medium of video, and made installations and “happenings” out in the woods. The leader of the group was an ambitious young man with a mop of curly hair named Dale Chihuly.
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