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DALE CHIHULY

Awards

1964

Seattle Weavers Guild Award, Seattle, Washington

1965

Highest Honors, American Institute of Interior Designers (now ASID)

1967

Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, New York

1968

Fulbright Fellowship to Murano, Italy

1975

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Artist-in-Residence, Artpark, Lewiston, New York

1979

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1983

Achievement in the Arts Award, Tacoma Arts Commission, Tacoma,

Washington

1984

President’s Fellow, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Visual Artists Award, American Council for the Arts, New York, New York

Governor’s Arts Award, Washington State (with Pilchuck Glass School)

1985

Governor’s Arts Award, Washington State

1986

Honorary Doctorate, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington

Honorary Doctorate, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Governor’s Arts Award, Rhode Island

Named Fellow of the American Craft Council

1987

Governor’s Writers Award, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Alumni Legend, Seattle, Washington

1988

Honorary Doctorate, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California

1992

Honored as the first National Living Treasure, Institute for Human Potential,

University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina

1993

Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus, Alumni Association,

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

1994

Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement, Malibu, California

Community Service Award, National Panhellenic Council, Western Region

1995

Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute, New York, New York

1996

Honorary Doctorate, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington

Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Washington,

College of Arts & Sciences, Seattle, Washington

Globe Award, World Trade Center, Tacoma, Washington

Urban Glass Award for Outstanding Achievement in Glass, New York

Contemporary Glass Center, New York, New York

1998

Jerusalem Prize for Arts and Letters, Friends of Bezalel, Israel’s National

Academy of Arts and Design, New York, New York

2000

Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Brandeis University, Waltham,

Massachusetts

Distinguished Artist Gold Medal Award, University of the Arts, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania

2001

Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award, Corporate Council for the Arts /

ArtsFund, Seattle, Washington

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

2002

Gold Medal Award, National Arts Club, New York, New York

2003

Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society, Seattle, Washington

2004

Honorary Doctor of Humanities, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington

 

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