Born: 20-Sep-1941
Birthplace: Tacoma, WA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Artist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Overrated glass artist

Did the preposterously large glass ceiling at the Bellagio casino, Las Vegas.

Father: George Chihuly (butcher, d. 1958, heart attack)
Mother: Viola Magnuson (homemaker)
Brother: George (d. 1957)
Wife: Sylvia Peto (playwright, m. 1987, div. 1991)
Wife: Leslie Jackson (m. 2005)

    High School: Tacoma, WA (1959)
    University: College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
    University: BA Interior Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (1965)
    University: MS Sculpture, University of Wisconsin at Madison (1967)
    University: MFA, Rhode Island School of Design (1968)
    Professor: Rhode Island School of Design

    Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity University of Washington
    Fulbright 1968
    Missing Eye (left) automobile accident, England (1976)
    Czechoslovak Ancestry Paternal
    Hungarian Ancestry Paternal
    Norwegian Ancestry Maternal
    Slovak Ancestry Paternal
    Swedish Ancestry Maternal

Official Website:
http://www.chihuly.com/

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