Dale Chihuly is a multimedia artist with a concentration in 3D art. His preferred media of choice is glass, he was introduced to this media at the University of Washington while taking interior design. After graduating he started taking classes to learn how to create with glass.

He has created a number of well known series of works, some of them being Baskets in the 1970’s, Seaforms and Persians in the 1980’s, and Fiori in the 2000’s. He has created many glass sculptures for factories in Finland, Ireland and Mexico, he than installed them all over the canals and piazzas of Venice.