Editing Dale Chihuly (section)

== Early life ==
Dale Patrick Chihuly was born on September 20, 1941, in [[Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]].<ref name=Northwest/> His parents were George and Viola Chihuly; his paternal grandfather was born in [[Slovakia]].<ref name="Northwest">{{Cite web |date=1 May 2013 |title=Dale Chihuly – Legendary Master of Glass |url=http://northwestprimetime.com/news/2013/may/01/dale-chihuly-legendary-master-glass/ |access-date=28 March 2018 |website=Northwest Prime Time}}</ref> In 1957, his older brother and only sibling George died in a [[United States Navy|Navy]] aviation training accident in [[Pensacola, Florida]].<ref name="kuspit">{{Cite book |last=Kuspit |first=Donald B. |title=Chihuly |date=1998 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams, Inc. |edition=2nd |location=Seattle}}</ref> In 1958, Chihuly's father died of a heart attack at the age of 51.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Renowned Glass Artist's Mother Dies at 98 |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2006/jan/08/renowned-glass-artists-mother-dies-at-98/ |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=Spokesman.com |date=8 January 2006 |publisher=Spokane Spokesman-Review}}</ref><ref name="timeline">{{Cite web |last=Chihuly |first=Dale |title=Timeline |url=https://www.chihuly.com/life/timeline |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=Chihuly.com}}</ref>

Chihuly had no interest in continuing his formal education after graduating from [[Woodrow Wilson High School (Tacoma, Washington)|Woodrow Wilson High School]] in 1959. However, at his mother's urging, he enrolled at the [[University of Puget Sound|College of Puget Sound]].<ref name="timeline" /> A year later, he transferred to the [[University of Washington]] in Seattle to study [[interior design]]. In 1961, he joined the [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity (Kappa Epsilon chapter), and the same year he learned how to melt and fuse glass.<ref name=kuspit /> In 1962, Chihuly dropped out of the university to study art in [[Florence]]. He later traveled to the Middle East where he met architect Robert Landsman. Their meeting and his time abroad spurred Chihuly to return to his studies. In 1963, he took a weaving class where he incorporated glass shards into tapestries. He received an award for his work from the Seattle Weavers Guild in 1964.<ref name=kuspit /> Chihuly graduated from the [[University of Washington]] in 1965 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in interior design.<ref name="timeline" />

Chihuly began experimenting with [[glassblowing]] in 1965, and in 1966 he received a full scholarship to attend the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]].<ref name=kuspit /> He studied under [[Harvey Littleton]], who had established the first glass program in the United States at the university. In 1967, Chihuly received a [[Master of Science]] degree in sculpture. After graduating, he enrolled at the [[Rhode Island School of Design]], where he met and became close friends with [[Italo Scanga]]. Chihuly earned a [[Master of Fine Arts]] degree in sculpture from the RISD in 1968. That same year, he was awarded a [[The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation|Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation]] grant for his work in glass, as well as a [[U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission|Fulbright Fellowship]].<ref name=kuspit /> He traveled to Venice to work at the [[Paolo Venini|Venini]] factory on the island of [[Murano]], where he first saw the team approach to blowing glass.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Learn More |url=http://www.chihuly.com/learn |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019200939/http://www.chihuly.com/learn |archive-date=19 October 2014 |access-date=23 October 2014 |website=Chihuly |publisher=Chihuly Studio}} From his personal website.</ref> After returning to the United States, Chihuly spent the first of four consecutive summers teaching at the [[Haystack Mountain School of Crafts]] in [[Deer Isle, Maine]]. In 1969, he traveled to Europe, in part to meet [[Erwin Eisch]] in Germany and [[Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová]] in Czechoslovakia.<ref name=kuspit />
Chihuly donated a portion of a large exhibit to his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, in 1997 and it is on permanent display in the [[Kohl Center]]. In 2013 the university awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts.