Dante Marioni (b. March 3, 1964 in Mill Valley, California, USA) is an American glass artist March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States. ... Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colors as shown in this sphere from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practising the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ...

Biography

Dante Marioni grew up among many artistic influences. His father, Paul Marioni, was involved in the American studio glass movement and, as a result, Dante was constantly exposed to the glassblowing artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1979, the Marioni family moved to Seattle and Dante began to study glassblowing at The Glass Eye. He spent summers at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington where his father taught. After graduating from high school, he started to pursue glassblowing as a career; working full time at The Glass Eye. Marioni learned the art of glassblowing from masters like Lino Tagliapietra, Benjamin Moore, and Richard Marquis. He has taught in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Europe. Sculpting hot blown glass. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... Widely recognized as the worlds premier glass school, Pilchuck was founded in 1971 by Dale Chihuly and modeled after the prestigous Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. ... Stanwood is a city located in Snohomish County, Washington. ... Lino Tagliapietra (b. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ...

About his work

Marioni’s ensemble of glass vessels includes variations of vases, goblets, flasks, cups, and pitchers. His works reveal combinations of classical Greek, Italian, and modern forms using opaque and transparent colors. Some of Marioni’s pieces employ 'reticello', which resembles a net, and murrine (mosaic) techniques. As he has refined his technical skills, he tends to design with tall, sleek shapes.(see external link below) Categories: Stub ... Chalice For other uses, see Chalice A chalice (from Latin calix, cup) is a goblet intended to hold drink. ... Ewer (reverse, middle) as cult instrument, in this coin celebrating the pietas of the Roman Emperor Herennius Etruscus. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... Modern can simply mean something that is up-to-date, trendy, new, or from the present time. ... A substance or object that is opaque is neither transparent nor translucent. ... See: transparency (optics) alpha compositing GIF#Transparency transparency (overhead projector) market transparency transparency (telecommunication) transparency (computing) For X11 pseudo-transparency, see pseudo-transparency. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ...

Collections

United States

• Alabama
  • Birmingham Museum, Birmingham
  • Huntsville Museum, Huntsville

• Arizona
  • University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe

• California
  • The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

• Florida
  • Vero Beach Museum, Vero Beach

• New York
  • The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning

• North Carolina
  • Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte

• Ohio
  • Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati

• Pennsylvania
  • The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

• South Carolina
  • Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia

• Tennessee
  • Hunter Museum, Chattanooga

• Virginia
  • Chrysler Museum, Norfolk

• Washington
  • Davis Wright & Jones, Seattle and Bellevue
  • Microsoft Corporation, Redmond
  • Safeco Insurance Company, Seattle
  • Security Pacific Bank, Seattle
  • The Prescott Collection of Pilchuck Glass at the U.S. Bank Centre, Seattle

• Washington D.C.
  • MCI
  • National Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
  • The White House Crafts Collection

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• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

Japan

• Japanese national Museum of Craft, Tokyo
• Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama

New Zealand

• New Zealand National Museum, Auckland

Awards

1997 “Outstanding Achievement in Glass,” UrbanGlass Award, Brooklyn

1988 “Young Americans,” American Craft Museum, New York

1987 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation was founded in 1918 by Louis Comfort Tiffany to operate his estate, Laurelton Hall, in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. ...

1985 The Glass Eye Scholarship, Seattle

Bibliography

Oldknow, Tina. Dante Marioni: Blown Glass. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2000. ISBN 1-55595-204-6.

External links

• Dante Marioni Glass
• Dante Marioni Online