This week, I am delighted to turn the blog over to Artful Home CEO, Lisa Bayne, the first of whom I hope to be many guest bloggers on The Artful Life.
~Toni

This coming weekend marks the end of the Dale Chihuly show at the de Young Museum. If you have not seen this spectacular extravaganza of art glass and can possibly get to the de Young before the show closes on Sunday I would strongly urge you to do so. As a former Seattleite, I thought I “knew” Chihuly. I had been to the boathouse, had attended many a charity auction where a “real Chihuly” had been part of the mix. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a Chihuly show. Big deal. Miss Know-It-All thought she knew what she’d see. Well, my socks were absolutely knocked off with this blockbuster of a show. The exuberance of color in glass displayed by this artist, the risk-taking and explorations in form, the beauty, scale, and herculean effort involved in the installation were life-altering.

I came out of the show looking at forms, both natural and man-made, in a completely new way. My respect and admiration for the many glass artists at Artful Home grew even greater than it had already been. Wow! What it takes to create those tiny ornaments by Mary Mullaney and Ralph Mossman, those magnificent tours de force of Victor Chiarizia, those incredibly lifelike and elegant pumpkins by Molly Stone and Michael Cohn! The paths begun by greats such as Dale Chihuly and Harvey Littleton are well traveled by glass artists throughout this country.

Enjoy the show! It is open until 10 on Friday night, 9 PM on Saturday and Sunday.

Lisa Bayne
Chief Executive Officer

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