Dante Marioni

blown glass sculpture

AWARDS

2002
1st Place - Reticello, Ebeltoft Museum, Denmark

1997
Outstanding Achievement in Glass, Urban Glass Award, New York, NY

1988
Young Americans, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1987
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

AWARDS

2002
1st Place - Reticello, Ebeltoft Museum, Denmark

1997
Outstanding Achievement in Glass, Urban Glass Award, New York, NY

1988
Young Americans, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1987
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

American Museum of Art + Design, New York
Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, AL
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Davis, Wright & Jones, Seattle and Bellevue, WA
Ebeltoft Museum, Denmark Houston Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
Huntsville Museum, Huntsville, AL
Japanese National Museum of Modern Art , Tokyo, Japan
LIULIGONGFANG, LIULI CHINA Museum's
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
MCI, Washington, DC (promised gift to National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute)
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
National Museum of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New Zealand National Museum, Auckland
Niijima Glass Museum, Niijima, Japan
Powerhouse Museum, New South Wales, Australia
Safeco Insurance Company, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum
Security Pacific Bank, Seattle, WA
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The Prescott Collection of Pilchuck Glass at the U.S. Bank Centre, Seattle, WA
The White House Crafts Collection, Washington, DC
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Vero Beach Museum, Vero Beach, FL
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008
Haystack School of Craft, Deer-Island, ME.

2006
Northlands Creative Glass, Lybster Scotland

2005
Canberrs School of Art, Canberrs Australia
Nijima Glass Center, Nijima Japan

2004
Haystack School of Craft, Deer-Island, ME.

2003
Visiting artist, International Glass Workshop, Centro Studio Vetro, Venice, Italy
Demonstration/Lecture, The Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ
Teaching with Kiki Smith, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

2001
Northlands Creative Glass, Lybster Scotland

2000
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME
Miami University, Miami, FL

1999
CCAC, Oakland, CA
Kent State, Cleveland, OH

1996
SUWA Glass Museum, Nagano, Japan. Instructor
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME. Co-taught with Lino Tagliapietra
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

1993
New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Rhode Island School of Design (winter session), Providence, RI
Toyama Glass Art Institute, Toyama City, Japan
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA. Co-taught with Lino Tagliapietra

1992
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME. Co-taught with Lino Tagliapietra
New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. Visiting Artist with Richard Marquis

1991
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME. Co-taught with Paul Marioni

1990 - 2003
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA. Instructor

1990
Fujikawa Craft Park, Fujikawa, Japan

1989 - 92
Nijiima Glass Art Center, Nijiima, Japan. Instructor

1989
Wanganui Summer School, Wanganui, New Zealand

1988
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

1987
Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia. Guest Instructor
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME. Assistant to Richard Marquis
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA. Assistant to Lino Tagliapietra and Benjamin Moore

1985
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA. Instructor, Advanced Glass blowing

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES
Southwest Art; cover, December 2006
Seattle Post Intelligecer, May 2006
The Independent on Sunday, ( London England) December 2004
The Washington Post, February 2004
Western Interiors and Design, Glass Act, pp 15, June 2003
Architectual Digest, The Great Design Issue, pp 295, May 2003
Florida Design, Dante Marioni Glass Silhouettes, August 2000, pp 82, by Courtney Powers Curtiss
Glass, Marioni Magic Cover pp 22 Summer 1998 by John Pereault
Glass and Art, Winter 1997 No. 16, 'Dante Marioni, Seattle's Standard Bearer'. Cover and pp. 14-44.
Town and Country Magazine, 'Hot Glass' December 1996, pp. 71.
The White House Collection of American Crafts, Michael W. Monroe, 1995. Jacket cover and back and p. 44.
Smithsonian Magazine, June 1995, Cover.
Booklist, Vol. 92 No. 4, 10/15/95. American Library Association, Cover.
Puget Sound Business Journal, Vol. 16 No. 30, Dec. 8-14, 1995. Front page and p. 39.
American Craft, February/March 1994, Cover and pp. 34-37. 'Dante Marioni: Apprentice to Tradition', by Matthew Kangas.
Glass Art, winter 1994, Cover and pp.4-8. 'Dante Marioni: Upholding the Vessel Tradition', by Shawn Waggoner.
Glass and Art, spring 1993, Cover and pp. 25-35. 'Contemporary Art Glass Movement'.
Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, by Lloyd Herman for Whatcom Museum of History, Bellingham, WA 1992, pp. 46.
Seattle Post Intelligencer, 'Father and Son Put Different Varieties of Pop into Glass Art', by Regina Hackett, May 1992.
Elle Decor, December 1991/January 1992, p. 26.
Out of the Fire: Contemporary Glass Artists and Their Work, by Bonnie Miller, 1991, Chronicle Books, pp. 60-63.
Financial Executive, 'Art That Pulls Its' Weight at Safeco', November/December 1991.
Gump's Since 1861: A San Francisco Legend, by Roseman, Birmingham and Saeks, 1991, Chronicle Books, pp. 72-73.
Beauty of Contemporary Glass, Sekisho Shoji Company, Ltd., 1991.
Glass Work, 'Interview with Rika Kuroki', January 1990, No. 4, pp. 60-61.
American Craft, 'Young Americans 1988', by Lisa Hammell, December 1988/January 1989, pp. 42-49.
Craft Arts, 'Anatomy of the Vessel', by Nola Anderson, October/December 1987, No. 10, pp. 71-74.
Canberra Times, 'Anatomy of the Vessel', by Nola Anderson, March 15, 1987.
Seattle Times, 'Dante Marioni', review by Dolores Tarzan, February 15, 1987.

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