Thirty years ago, famed American glass artist, Dale Chihuly, embarked on an audacious international art project – Chihuly Over Venice. Over a two-year period, Chihuly took a team of young glassblowers, installers, photographers and support personnel to work with factory glassblowers in Finland, Ireland, Mexico and, ultimately Venice, to experiment and create new forms. The spectacular results were displayed all across Venice during the 1996 Venezia Aperto Vetro.
To more fully document this endeavor, Chihuly asked filmmaker and artist Michael W. Barnard to join the team as the director of a feature-length film that would explore every aspect of this uniquely bold and highly creative journey. Barnard immediately recognized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a filmmaker to intimately explore the creative process of a great international artist at a pivotal moment in his career. Award-winning Chihuly River of Glass is the result.
Thirty years ago, famed American glass artist, Dale Chihuly, embarked on an audacious international art project – Chihuly Over Venice. Over a two-year period, Chihuly took a team of young glassblowers, installers, photographers and support personnel to work with factory glassblowers in Finland, Ireland, Mexico and, ultimately Venice, to experiment and create new forms. The spectacular results were displayed all across Venice during the 1996 Venezia Aperto Vetro.
To more fully document this endeavor, Chihuly asked filmmaker and artist Michael W. Barnard to join the team as the director of a feature-length film that would explore every aspect of this uniquely bold and highly creative journey. Barnard immediately recognized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a filmmaker to intimately explore the creative process of a great international artist at a pivotal moment in his career. Award-winning Chihuly River of Glass is the result.
